Blog: Prefixmag.com

There are few words that fully describe the Texas-bred Paper Chase, and even fewer that lead singer/guitarist/songwriter John Congleton would like to hear. Granted, the band's trademark is an uneasy yet confident mess of found sound, haunting piano, a dirty, thunderous rhythm section and Congleton's sprawling, squealing guitar attacks. Yet it's the 32-year-old's writing and delivery -- tense, sometimes comically fervent warnings of murder, guilt and the rapture -- that have spawned thousands of critics to wrongly deem the group as humorless, art-house horror junkies. In truth, the band's version of the dramatic owes as much to Queen as it [...]