Now You Are One Of Us, by The pAper chAse

Now You Are One Of Us

by The pAper chAse

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layonthehorn Just a crazy weird but great album to listen to. Really gets in my head in just the best ways. Favorite track: This House Is Alive And The House Is Hungry.

mad_maximilian Evil uncle anthems for the depressed. Favorite track: This House Is Alive And The House Is Hungry.

Fiver Aoife Zaitsev Chaotic and paranoid and absolutely dripping with anxiety. I loved every second of this Album. Favorite track: We Know Where You Sleep.

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1.	It's Out There And It's Gonna Get You 00:51	buy track
2.	We Know Where You Sleep 04:22	buy track
3.	The Kids Will Grow Up To Be Assholes 05:00	buy track
4.	Wait Until I Get My Hands On You 05:52	buy track
5.	You Will Never Take Me Alive 04:15	buy track
6.	Delivered In A Firm Unyeilding Way Lingering For Just A Bit Too Long To Communicate The Message "I Own You" 01:02	buy track
7.	The Most Important Part Of Your Body 05:41	buy track
8.	What's So Amazing About Grace 01:26	buy track
9.	You're One Of Them, Aren't You? 03:06	buy track
10.	This Song Will Eat Itself 01:51	buy track
11.	...And All The Candy You Can Eat 04:05	buy track
12.	All Manner Of Pox Or Canker 01:36	buy track
13.	At The Other End Of The Least 04:02	buy track
14.	We Will Make You One Of Us 02:38	buy track
15.	This House Is Alive And The House Is Hungry 05:06	buy track

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The Paper Chase's signature sounds--strangled guitars, bombastic percussion, terror-stricken strings, bizarre samples and crashing pianos--are firmly in place on their latest endeavor, Now You Are One of Us. Here, the Dallas quartet creates the sonic equivalent to George A. Romero's classic zombie films, in which one and all inevitably become "one of them."

Songwriter/singer/producer John Congleton examines the ways fear can be utilized as an instrument of control, even as it spreads like a plague across the land. Possessed by fear of pacification, domestication and ultimate dissolve, the songs' characters struggle to retain their identity. Layers of trepidation are aurally peeled away and scrutinized while a looming unknown lies just below the surface. Beyond the fear of death, is the characters' dreadful realization that perhaps they never even existed. The sound of ghostly forces opening and closing squeaky doors becomes eerily significant, and Congleton's trademark desperation is at its most crucial as he exclaims, "We will show this cruel word we were here."

Despite the disturbed poltergeists that are its roommates, The Paper Chase sounds right at home in its self-wrought haunted house. Over the album's seamless course, the band not only offers battle anthems for those who won't go down without a fight, but also the sadistic theme songs of their bloodthirsty attackers. Another histrionic epic is rendered, but we wouldn't expect anything less from Congleton and his crew.

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released June 6, 2006

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