The Paper Chase - Young Bodies Heal Quickly, You Know

Anything Can Happen, Anything Can Go Wrong

#130) The Paper Chase - Young Bodies Heal Quickly, You Know (2000)

 1. This May Be the Last Song You Ever Hear
 2. These Things Happen
 3. Ever Since the Turn
 4. Apple Pies and Alibis
 5. Neat; Manageable; Piles
 6. Can I Pour You Another Drink, Lover?
 7. Lenny What's Gotten Into You?
 8. Goddamn These Hands (I Let Them Touch You)
 9. A Face That Could Launch a Thousand Ships
 10. Throw Your Body On the Apparatus
 11. Off With Their Heads!
 12. Daddy's Got Your Nose
 13. Paperwork
 14. When You Least Expect It
 15. When (And If) the Big One Hits...I'll Just Meet You There

the Paper Chase's 1st album was released in 2000 and it shows. it's very guitar driven with noisy, angular riffs and mostly shouted vocals. while a few of the tracks feature other instruments and there are a couple piano driven tracks (which are probably my favorite, especially the album closer, which reminded me a bit of Year Zero era NIN), i feel like it lacks the varied instrumentation and melody found on later albums. there are a lot of rad dissonant riffs, some great sampling/manipulation, cool little experimental interludes, the songs are very well composed and John Congleton writes excellent lyrics but to me the impact isn't as great as on later albums, probably because of the previously mentioned overall lack of melody and the focus being mainly on the guitar. it's not a bad album, you can definitely hear hints of the melodic/dissonant experimentation to come  and it's worth checking out, but i'd probably recommend starting with a later album.