Paper Champion [streaming the EP now]

About Me

Thereâ€™s something you donâ€™t know about Paper Champion, and thatâ€™s what youâ€™ll like about them. Unfamiliar beats, soundscapes, and unusual melodies lace a style of heavy rock which reminds that youâ€™re listening to something different. Let it creep up on you, take your time, but donâ€™t expect that of the bandâ€™s trajectory.
Released in November 2007, Paper Championâ€™s debut EP continues to delight reviewers both at home and abroad with its diverse range of sounds; their disparate influences combining to create music that flows from progressive to indie to alternative in a space of 25 minutes.
It was recorded at Brisbaneâ€™s Modern Music Studios, home to recordings from such luminaries as The Butterfly Effect, The Red Paintings, Dead Letter Circus and Small Mercies, and produced by Rick Hollis, who previously has worked with bands such as Shihad and Sunk Loto.
Paper Champion have played alongside national touring acts such as Dead Letter Circus, The Red Paintings, Mammal and Birds of Tokyo. In the wake of their debut EP release, Paper Champion were featured as â€˜Homegrown Talentâ€™ on MySpace and selected for a FasterLouder podcast along with acts like The Mercy Arms, Damn Arms and the Mess Hall. Singles 'Teeth' and 'Undone' have received strong support from independent radio. In June theyâ€™ll play the prestigious Come Together Festival at Luna Park. Things are happening fast, hop on for the ride.
Here's what some lovely people have said about the band:
"Very strong... this debut EP highlights their diversity."
- Jonathon Moran, The Sunday Telegraph
"Their music achieves a strange juxtapositioning of melodic ambience and pounding rhythms that highlight the bandâ€™s versatility and a burgeoning potential to create the punk anthems that have marked the rise of bands like the Butterfly Effect."
- Rebecca Warren, Newcastle Music Directory
"Heavy and soft, complex and simple, acrobatic and consistent; Paper Champion is all these things... a good album with a dash of brilliance thrown in every now and then, and is undoubtedly a debut EP of which any band would be proud."
- Brad Dixon, OzProg.com
"This is a very promising self released EP that shows a band trying to forge some new ground in the very stagnant realm of hard rock."
- Rick Gebhardt, DecoyMusic.com
"An outstanding debut for a band that is willing to explore the complex aesthetic elements which make up a musical experience: dynamics structure, timbre, texture, sound, silence and articulation in all its forms."
- Albert Gestal, The Stix Magazine

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Member Since: 7/30/2006
Band Members: Grant Spencer
Vocals
Dave Clark
Drums
Denis Giasli
Bass
Dom Alessio
Guitar

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PAPER CHAMPION [EP]
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1. This Mute Tide
2. Blindingly Confident
3. Teeth
4. Undone
5. Arithmetic

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Influences: Incubus
Dredg
Cog
Oceansize
A Perfect Circle
Decoder Ring
The Butterfly Effect
Karnivool
Deftones
The Apex Theory
Radiohead

Supports Some bands we've played with, and enjoyed the company of, include:
Birds Of Tokyo
Bushido
Dead Letter Circus
The Getaway Plan
Gyroscope
.hinge
The Living End
Mammal
Many Machines On Nine
The Red Paintings

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Paper Champion review on thedwarf.com.au

Hey gang, We're a pretty chuffed ol' bunch here at PC Central. Seven months after we released our first EP, the positive reviews are still coming in. This time it's from the cool Aussie music website,...
Posted by Paper Champion [streaming the EP now] on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:33:00 PST

Come Together Festival 2008: A Video Flashback

Morning friends! I'm going to keep this short because, well, I'm feeling slightly under the weather. Oh well, I got a new Microkorg, so I'm happy. Anyway, we recorded some footage from our set at the...
Posted by Paper Champion [streaming the EP now] on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:58:00 PST

Paper Champion Interview on Ozprog.com

On the eve of our veeeeeeery exciting spot on this weekend's Come Together Festival, Brad Dixon from Ozprog.com interviewed Dom on the ins and out of Paper Champion, the Sydney music scene and ou...
Posted by Paper Champion [streaming the EP now] on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:41:00 PST

"Ive been Arrested" - A Paper Champion Recording Experience

Last weekend - May 10 & 11, 2008 if you want to be exact - we ventured into the recently renovated Graylabel Studios in Sydney to record a brand new single called 'Arrested'.We've been friends with pr...
Posted by Paper Champion [streaming the EP now] on Thu, 15 May 2008 11:41:00 PST

Paper Champion Update: May 2008

Hello friends!! It's been a while since we checked in with everyone, but we promise we've been busy. The first exciting bit of news is that we're hitting the recording studio this weekend - Graylabel ...
Posted by Paper Champion [streaming the EP now] on Sun, 04 May 2008 03:48:00 PST

New Videos - Live at the Annandale Hotel

Heeeeeeeeeeeeey!! Last Tuesday March 25 we played our first show of 2008 at the Annandale Hotel in Sydney with our new friends from Tassie, Lakoda. It was filmed for a show called NocturnalTV, a music...
Posted by Paper Champion [streaming the EP now] on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:14:00 PST

Review in Drum Media

Iconic Sydney street press mag Drum Media, courtesy of Michael Smith, have published a rather glowing review of our EP in this week's edition. Denis said I should scan this, and I might eventually, bu...
Posted by Paper Champion [streaming the EP now] on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:51:00 PST

New Tunes - ’Teeth’ & ’Jawbone’

It's been a little while, but we've finally put some new music up on our page for you to enjoy. Basically we're trying to keep things interesting around here by giving you not only something new ...
Posted by Paper Champion [streaming the EP now] on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:30:00 PST

Review in The Stix Magazine

Wow, another fantastic review of our debut EP has appeared online, this time in the upcoming issue of The Stix, a free street press magazine distributed monthly in the Blue Mountains and Penrith regio...
Posted by Paper Champion [streaming the EP now] on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:38:00 PST

Review on melodic.net

melodic.net published a short review of the new CD. Words are courtesy of Par Winsberg. Paper Champion is a four piece aussie-band playing a very cool progressive modern rock with a retrovibe. Imagine...
Posted by Paper Champion [streaming the EP now] on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:41:00 PST