Paul Banks and the Carousels

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My Friends Give Up

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Released: Nov 6, 2010

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My Friends Give Up
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Tell Me Why I Don\'t Cry
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Live To Share
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BMBT - Paul Banks w/ Noise Revival
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Stick With What You Know
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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
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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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"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):

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.