The Troubadour

Ok, details out of the way early.
The Paper Scissors are from Sydney Australia.
They are four men that make up a band.
They have one self-titled EP and an album titled ‘Less Talk More Paper Scissors’ under their collective belt.
Both received critical acclaim and various accolades in Australia.
“Yamanote Line is the greatest song ever written.Truly” Sydney Morning Herald

It has been two years since TPS put any new music out-
The wait is over- The Howl EP will drop into your ears and eyes and hearts June/July 2009.
Last year saw TPS sell out shows nationally with bluejuice, program rage and play summer festivals. They then embarked on some time off, Jai writing in New York for a month before joining the band to write and record just north of Sydney and in Byron Bay.
The Howl EP features two TPS songs from these sessions; ‘Howl’- a goodbye-to-love, crooning anthem and ‘Soldier’, a rock assault/picture of frustration and alienation in a relationship. The songs put the band in a different light, shedding irony and flippancy to continue and extend on the originality, presence and vitality that the band have so far delivered, without losing their sense of fun. Aided by the production of Jai Pyne, working for the first time with drummer Ivan Lisyak, the sound is in true TPS style diverse- with 25 piece choir, afro rhythms, freak outs and anthemic singalongs- but this time it seems that the sounds compliment the songs and give the edge that can be witnessed at TPS live shows, with a catharsis, energy and vitality that is rare.

The two original tracks are backed by remixes of Howl by Sydney’s lord of radness Spod, Sydney glitch hopper Cleptoclectics and former Gerling front man, now electro one-man-band The E.L.F.

The Ep will be out June 23 itunes/July 12 stores- 2009.
The band will be touring the East Coast July/August.
Then they will go back into the studio to finish their second album.