Paradoxic

Music:

Member Since: 12/10/2005
Band Website: Under Construction
Band Members: Andy Goddard - Vocals & Guitar
Duncan McHugh - Guitar & BV’s
Tom Karakas - Bass & BV’s
Dan Collins - Drums & serious faces!
Influences: Andy says...
Paramore, Elton John, "anything particularly musical for people who ACTUALLY like music" and anything with an alternative, amusing or clever lyric ;]

Tom says...
Various music, spreading wide over various genre’s... Anything you can tap your foot to! =D

Duncan says...
Mainly Indie/Alternative rock music with catchy upbeat or slow riffs! Influenced by bands such as Arctic Monkeys, Feeder and Maximo Park! =O

Dan says...
Influenced by the Progressive side of rock, including band’s such as, Rush, Avenged Sevenfold, Porcupine Tree & Dream Theater =)
Sounds Like: Demos Reviewed
September 2007
(Based on "Time of Day" & "Disaster")

Here we have a Wolverhampton based 4 piece with considerable talent and considerable promise.

Opener ’Time Of Day’ is a good track, with impressive beats and driving guitar licks. It’s with ’Disaster’ that they find their feet though, with more of a funky, albeit muted beat leading into heavy guitar and drum play. The vocals are good, and the overall feel of the song is impressive.

With a little fine tuning and gigging they’ll mature, settle as a band (having been through a few vocalists in their time) and come up with some great stuff i’m sure. Ones to watch.

BBC WM Journalist Stephen Hudyba
March 2008
(Based on our succesful Surface Unsigned Festival first round performance)

Musically it’s a refreshingly stripped down indie-rock sound; simple, effective riffs, understated beats, sharp solos and Andy’s distinctive vocal all coming together perfectly for an intelligent, raw noise that’s contemporary and uniquely compelling.

It’s the quality of their material where the band really shines; memorable, punchy tracks packed full of ideas, they manage to be both accessible and simple, yet with some real depth.

MusicReview.com
April 2008
(Based on "I Can’t Believe", "Crazy", & "In a Nightmare")

Paradoxic are a bunch of enthusiastic young indie bucks from Wolverhampton. Taking on a review, at this early stage is also a bold start, but shows an encouraging confidence. The band give a reasonable account of themselves with tracks like ’Crazy’ an uptempo catchy romp and the bouncy and very Arctic Monkeys influenced (Paradoxic Addition: ANDY DISAGREES), ’I can’t believe’. At this stage of their young career they’ve got the band up on wheels.

The songs are quite memorable, energetically played and pretty well fronted by the attention holding vocals of singer Andy (whose sound sits somewhere between Greenday’s Billie Joe and and Placebo’s Brian Molko).

As young bands go, Paradoxic have a good platform and the time to make cool, energetic indie-pop tunes. Despite the current tracks getting a wee bit ’samey’ after three songs, its a strong enough start.
Record Label: None
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