Paper Airplane
Garage / Indie / Folk Rock
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"Recording underway for "White Elephants""
COLUMBUS/CINCINNATI, Ohio
United States
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| Member Since | 3/8/2005 | | Band Website | allhailrecords.com | | Band Members | Ryan Horns (lead vocals-guitar), Caleb Bandy (bass), Antonio Garza (drums, vocals) and Teresa Kent (keyboards, vocals) | | Influences | John, Paul, George and Ringo, The Kinks, Harry Nilsson, Guided by Voices, The Creation, The Lemonheads, Elliott Smith, The Zombies, Wilco, Quasi, Rufus Wainwright, Joan as Police Woman, Roy Orbison, Pete Seeger, The Shins, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beach Boys, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, The Walkmen, David Bowie, T. Rex, Richie Havens, Woody Guthrie, Muddy Waters, Dion, Flaming Lips, The Byrds, The Minders, Cat Stevens... | | Record Label | All Hail Records | | Type of Label | Indie |
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| About Paper Airplane |
Described by fans as a Wes Anderson movie come to life, Ohio's (Columbus/Cincinnati) PAPER AIRPLANE has set its path on creating melodic, vocal-based music that never really goes where you think it will. The point is the craft of song-writing, in lieu of vacuous trends.
Its 2007 debut CD "Middlemarch" (All Hail Records) was released to critical praise.
"Paper Airplane succeed in taking music and creating audio poetry. That being said, it’s also damn fun," critic Dave Schaefer wrote.
"Middlemarch is an exquisite record filled with brilliant musings on the minutia of daily life," Columbus Alive reporter John Ross wrote.
The band is currently recording it's followup "White Elephants" with engineer Brian Niesz (Heartless Bastards) for a fall or winter 2008 release.
• Over the years, Paper Airplane has morphed into something new from song to song. Gentle indie pop often turns into something more experimental and rough - sometimes within the same song.
"But it has maintained the elegance that songwriter/frontman Ryan Horns infuses into all of his creations," Cincinnati City Beat critic Ezra Waller wrote.
Featured on college radio stations across the United States and Canada, Paper Airplane is a featured band on Nic Harcourt's "Morning Becomes Eclectic."
Paper Airplane has supported such national recording artists as Mates of State, The Walkmen, Rogue Wave, Matt Pond PA, The National, Robbers on High Street, The Redwalls, Richard Swift, Howlin' Maggie, the legendary Dick Dale, The Minders and more.
In the 1990s singer/songwriter and crime journalist Ryan Horns was performing under the solo name "The Last Hotel," basing songs on offbeat topics, people and events he had written about as a small town crime reporter. The music received regional critical acclaim, radio play, major label attention and dedicated fans after its self-titled EP was released in 2003. But by the end of 2004, Horns wanted a change. The point was to completely start from scratch, avoid hype of all kinds and base everything on the music. Horns reformed with a group of friends as Paper Airplane in early 2005 and since then the group's underground status has risen fast, garnering spots on the Desdemona Festival, Midpoint Music Festival, Comfest, the Midwest Music Summit, NXNE, featured on the Hollisterco.com and was named among Columbus Alive's 2007 "Bands to Watch" and "Middlemarch" was named among the city's top musical efforts in the past 30 years.
The group has mobilized a passionate regional following based on a tight, decidedly more aggressive and spirited sound than those shows of the past. With drummer Antonio Garza, bassist Caleb Bandy (Templeton, Jon Chinn) and keyboardist Teresa Kent, Horns and the band have found a way to avoid trends and focus entirely on the craft of songwriting, often jumping across the board from dirty garage rock to delicate acoustic melodies and harmonies, while always staying true to themselves.
"They are quirky and hard to pin down," critic Kari Wethington wrote. "Too sweet to be punk rock, too earnest to be indie rock, too loud to be folk."
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What the critics are saying about Paper Airplane:
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• "I'm a professional music critic, which means I get paid to listen to music but also that listening to music -- one of my favorite hobbies -- has become work. Doing what I do means you have to come up with interesting things to say about music you hate, awful sounding releases other people claim are important and really challenging things that otherwise I'd turn off and toss aside. I wouldn't trade my gig for anything, but I miss being able to listen to music just to listen. That's why Paper Airplane's debut record is my favorite of the year: It takes absolutely no effort to like. Singer Ryan Horns, who writes all the songs, is a discipline of The Beatles (he'd probably say John, I'd argue Paul), and his songs have a bit of that intangible magic of Revolver and Abbey Road -- the alchemy fans are still trying to wrap their minds around and nail down. Songs like "Keeping Things Whole" and "Fire Escape" are immediately inviting and comfortable, as if they're from an old favorite album you'd put away and forgotten. The rest unfolds in similar fashion: Horns waxing poetically about the minutia of daily life, and his crack band following along with keys, drums, guitars and the occasional flourishes most are eager to overuse. From start to finish, this is a stellar set of songs that you'll be humming in the shower for years" - John Ross (Columbus Alive)
Critic's Pick: Paper Airplane (Columbus)
With an incredibly sound grasp on classic Pop mastery, Paper Airplane is making some of the best Power Pop/Indie Pop in Ohio right now. While obviously schooled in the Beatles' school of resplendent melodies and song structures, their sound is anything but obvious. Hooks cascade throughout the incredibly crafty, wildly colorful songs that pervade Middlemarch, their ace 2007 release. Dig It: ELO, Beulah, Flaming Lips. - Mike Breen of Cincinnati's City Beat
• "Hola a todas, os recomiendo este disco, es muy bonito e intimista, con muy buenas melodías y arreglos, os puedo decir que me gusta mucho. Os pongo el enlace en cdbaby donde lo podréis escuchar. A quien le guste, lo tengo en el pájaro." (Power Pop Action!)
• "If you're looking for a gimmick, you won't find it here. This band doesn't dress in matching bolero ties, they don't wear Jared Leto levels of eyeliner, and they don't inundate utility poles with flashy posters before shows. Singer/songwriter Ryan Horns and his latest indie-pop quartet, Paper Airplane, aren't interested in what's trendy. They're far too busy creating eclectic, substantive music that speaks for itself" - Brooke Williams (Columbus Alive)
• "Paper Airplane succeed in taking music and creating audial poetry. That being said, it’s also damn fun... The CD’s title Middlemarch is shared with George Eliot’s 1871 book of the same name, a story that is considered one of history’s greatest novels. If Eliot’s closing passage were translated to the music of Paper Airplane, it would fit: “For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” Personally, I hope this CD stays neither hidden nor unvisited." - Dave Schaefer (Life on the C Bus)
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