The Paper Chase - God Bless Your Black Heart

Good Things Die All The Time, God Bless Your Heart Vengeance Is Mine

#132) The Paper Chase - God Bless Your Black Heart (2004)

 1. Said the Spider to the Fly
 2. One Day He Went Out For Milk and Never Came Home
 3. What I'd Be Without Me
 4. The Sinking Ship, the Grand Applause
 5. Piggy's Had Too Much Wine
 6. Ready, Willing, Cain and Able
 7. Now, We Just Slowly Circle the Draining Fishbowl
 8. A War Is Coming
 9. Your Ankles to Your Earlobes
 10. Let's Be Bad Henry, Let's Be Really Bad
 11. Now You're Gonna Get It
 12. Abby, You're Going to Burn For What You've Done to Me
 13. Your Pretty Little Head
 14. Dying With Decent Music

the Paper Chase's 3rd full length is where i think they really started to hit their stride. the songs are less guitar driven and more built upon various instrumentation and they just feel more, i don't know, lush maybe? the compositions have become even more melodic, so when the dissonant parts and crazy riffs show up they seem even more powerful. there are only a couple of the "instrumental" tracks, it seems like they started to integrate the weird noise/sample parts into the actual songs more. i think album opener "Said the Spider to the Fly" is one of the best Paper Chase songs, it has such a great balance of beautiful melody, darkness and dissonant guitar work. i think this album is also where i start to agree with the Cursive and Bright Eyes comparisons. hell for all i know this is the album that started people making those comparisons. regardless, this is a great album and definitely worth checking out if you want your pop dark and noisy.