Search - Paper Arrows :: Look Alive

Paper Arrows was born in a Chicago attic studio in the Winter of 2007. What started as a group of quiet songs by Joe Goodkin (Burn Rome Burn), soon absorbed the production and instrumental talents of Jay Marino (Buddy Nuisance, Lindsay Anderson) and Darren Garvey (Buddy Nuisance, Cameron McGill), and the result is the full-length album Look Alive, which Quell Records released on March 4, 2008. So... why the name Paper Arrows? Says Goodkin: I liked the idea that these songs, and songs im general, are arrows that you fire into the air, hoping that they hit the intended targets... and Jay's approach to producing the album was so conductive to that idea. Almost everything was recorded quickly... like first takes, second takes... even the vocals, he wouldn't let me over-think them... we'd cut entire tunes in twenty, thirty minutes... and I think the result is that everything sounds fresh and direct and the arrows are more likely to hit home. My favorite moment is in the song Again and Again ... it's all live, one take (the first take actually), and if you listen closely you can hear the Blue Line train go by in the background, like a ghost, during the second verse... Look Alive was mixed by Manny Sanchez (Billy Corgan, Umphrey's McGee) at Gravity Studios in Chicago, and mastered by Gravity's Doug McBride (Augustana, Fallout Boy, The Walkmen).