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Saturday, February 21, 2009

Waxing Lyrical

The ParaffinsThe Paraffins
Genre: Melodramatic Popular Song / Zouk / Acousmatic / Tape music
From: Knockentiber, Scotland, United Kingdom


The Paraffins serve up a Scottish breakfast of strange lo-fi electro space-pop that sounds like The Beta Band recorded in the shed at the end of a hermits garden.

They recently contributed a track to the Filthy Little Angels Valentines Day album 'Biking Girl' (see below) a weird cover of an already strange and little known b-side from ultra obscure late 70s band The Four Plugs (check out the original here). You can also check out the brilliant video for 'Cardboard Cutout' created by the multi talented Lachlann Rattray of GVSY.


It doesn't get more alternative than The Paraffins. Kurt Cobain and John Peel would've loved them.

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The Paraffins - Biking Girl
If anyone from the IFPI or Blogger is reading, this track is linked direct from Filthy Little Angels and is therefore freely available so please refrain from alleging infringement of copyright or deleting this post.

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The Paraffins
Cardboard Cutout


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