Roots-rock turned synth-pop band Calhoun releases its Paperweights EP today!

Forth Worth/ Dallas synth-pop band Calhoun

releases its Paperweights EP today!


Stream the full EP now via Beats Per Minute

Download the new single "Fatal Flaws" via Earbuddy



First single "Reap/Sow" premiered at MTV Hive

“Reap/Sow,” the first song off of the upcoming six-track EP, has a stout kick to it — one delivered over a synth-heavy beat and what guitarist Roberts describes as a more “noodly” guitar sound. --Emily Blake

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Calhoun formed in the summer of 2006 during a series of recording sessions that lead vocalist and chief songwriter at the time, Tim Locke, was working on for an as yet untitled project. These sessions turned into a self titled debut album, simply called Calhoun. Two years of touring across the Midwest and East Coast followed before the band wound up back home in Fort Worth/Dallas to record their second album, 2008’s Falter • Waver • Cultivate with Stuart Sikes (Cat Power, The Walkmen).

After seeing songs from FWC wind up on shows like NBC's ‘Chuck’, the album named #3 album of the year by the Dallas Observer, and Tim and Jordan named Songwriters of the Year by The Fort Worth Weekly, Calhoun again set out to tour the Midwest and East Coast, opening for Elf Power, Phantom Planet, Helio Sequence, Explosions in The Sky and Bishop Allen along the way. The band spent two more years supporting FWC before taking a year-long break to relax and let some members go their way.
 

Tim Locke and guitarist Jordan Roberts then began writing and recording demos in Jordan’s apartment, which would soon make up the entirety of their third album, 2010’s Heavy Sugar. After recording these songs in both Dallas and Atlanta with James Barber (Ryan Adams, Hole), the band saw songs appear on One Tree Hill and various MTV reality shows. Heavy Sugar was named album of the year by the Fort Worth Weekly and Tim Locke and Jordan Roberts again won awards for Songwriters of The Year by the same publication. After almost two years of pushing Heavy Sugar, the band felt exhausted, but something always seems to sucker Calhoun into making just one more record.
 

Spread out across three states—Texas, Louisiana and New York,—the band began swapping tracks and ideas through email until the album’s final song was finished. Through this process the band learned what many others already know: you don’t necessarily need to be in the same room to complete an album.
 

So began the demoing and emailing of tracks that led to the 6 song EP, Paperweights. Armed now with analog synths and arpeggiator triggers, the band has set out to distance itself as far as possible from its previous efforts. The result is pulsing, danceable tunes that deconstruct Calhoun’s almost singer-songwriter past into something completely new for both the band and their audience.

 

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Artist -  Calhoun

Album - Paperweights EP
Release Date - October 22, 2013

Label -  Paperweight Records

 

01. Fatal Flaws
02. Trapped
03. Reap/Sow
04. Song on Songs
05. Don't Look Strange
06. Paperweights
 

 

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