The Paranoid Style, Rolling Disclosure [Bar/None]
“American politics has often been an arena for angry minds.” So wrote Richard Hofstadter in “The Paranoid Style In American Politics,” his seminal 1964Harper’s essay, penned against the backdrop of an ascendant Barry Goldwater, still timely 52 Novembers on. No doubt singer Elizabeth Nelson and guitarist Timothy Bracy swiped Hofstadter’s title for their gleefully contrarian Stiff Records-meets-pop-punk project the Paranoid Style partly because it scans better than, say, The Presentation Of Self In Everyday Life. But as former lobbyists and sometime rock critics, the D.C.-based Nelson/Bracy also know their damn stuff, with an eye for realpolitik and ears for the semi-pop canon.”
-- my SPIN review for Rolling Disclosure, the terrific new full-length from The Paranoid Style.
http://www.spin.com/2016/07/review-the-paranoid-style-rolling-disclosure/
