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Paul Banks and the Carousels

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Released: Nov 6, 2010
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  • Genre: Folk / Indie / Pop

    Location Austin, Un

    Profile Views: 110449

    Last Login: 2/8/2013

    Member Since 9/30/2005

    Website TheCarousels.com

    Record Label Grandma's Garage

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

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  • Members

    Paul Banks and two Carousels perform "Life for the Charm" in a spontaneously soaked take-away show at during South by Southwest: (http://www.AthensSoundies.com): ........Paul Banks: Life for the Charm Uploaded by eikonproductions. Tweeters should click here to follow Paul Banks on Twitter for updates, if they desire to stare into the mosaic of Paul's fragmented digital life...
  • Influences

    Paul Simon, The Beatles, Cole Porter, Radiohead, ya know, a million trillion people.
  • Sounds Like

    Andrew Bird, Sondre Lerche, Rufus Wainwraight, Jeff Buckley, Wilco, Richard Swift

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  • Laura I Evans




    Have a Merry Christmas

    2 years ago
  • Joy Bastow

    Morning! How goes it?? Stopping in to say hi and show some love!

    Joy Bastow
    www.letstalkearz.com


    Show me Your Ears!

    2 years ago
  • Natasha Denton

    thanks for the add

    2 years ago
  • Kevin Rowe

    Hey - love the music Freakin' excited to be moving from England to Atlanta GA this summer! Maybe see you around when I tour :o)

    2 years ago
  • Industry Recording Comp…

    Coming through by to show some Chattanooga love !!

    3 years ago
  • Christa!

    If you guys ever make it to SA,
    let me know!

    3 years ago
  • Christmas Fuller Projec…

    Man that sounds awesome. You give us a date and we'll see what we can do!

    3 years ago
  • Christmas Fuller Projec…

    How've you been, Mr. Banks? I hope all is going well. Any new albums on the horizon?

    3 years ago
  • Christa!

    Hey remember me??
    SA Indie fest 2007
    Your voice is still beautiful

    3 years ago
  • Windy City Gentleman

    thank you for being awesome :)

    3 years ago
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"Banks' melodies are beautifully mesmerizing."
-The Austin Chronicle, Album Review

#3 Top Album of the Year
-Texas Music Magazine Critic's List


"Banks, whose backup vocals can be heard on the latest album by fellow Austinites ...And You Will know Us by the Trail of Dead, says he enjoys incorporating a pretty/gritty duality in his songwriting. [He] fuses a Freddie Mercury vocal delivery and a Paul Simon songwriting approach with surprisingly pleasing results."
-Austin Monthly Magazine

"Songwriter Paul Banks is another Austin force to be reckoned with . . . His favorite songwriter is Paul Simon, but Banks' voice has supreme range. He can go from sounding like a folk-singer Strokes frontman to a gorgeous Roy Orbison to stripped down Muse. There is an epic sweep to Banks' songs."
-San Antonio Express News, Show Review..

"The perfect swell to ring against de Ville’s rock grotto, local songsmith Paul Banks and his Carousels quartet build mesmerizing pop wrought with vocals that split the difference between Rufus Wainwright and Jeff Buckley."
-The Austin Chronicle, Show Recommendation..

"Soaring and dare I say angelic vocal stylings, which easily split the difference between Thom Yorke and Jeff Buckley."
-Whoopsy Magazine, Show Review

"...managed to put together tracks that confidently tell their stories with a charm and melodies that stick in your head. I've been whistling "Live to Share" for a week now, and I'm okay with that."
-Austin Sound, Album Review

"Pretty damned epic."
-Austin Sound, on Paul Banks' collaborative single with The Noise Revival Orchestra, "BMBT"

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September 30, 2005

Members:

Paul Banks and two Carousels perform "Life for the Charm" in a spontaneously soaked take-away show at during South by Southwest: (http://www.AthensSoundies.com):

Tweeters should click here to follow Paul Banks on Twitter for updates, if they desire to stare into the mosaic of Paul's fragmented digital life.



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