Paragraph Nights

by DRGN King

Overview

Centered around the team of singer/songwriter Dominic Angelella and producer Ritz Reynolds, DRGN King's 2013 debut album, Paragraph Nights, balances soulful melodic songwriting with some psychedelic-tinged, electronica- and hip-hop-influenced production. With his laid-back, hippie-fied soulfulness, Angelella has a knack for coming up with a catchy melody and his songs often bring to mind the R&B-folk of Shuggie Otis and the confident hipster wisdom of Odelay-era Beck. There is an adventurous, lightly experimental quality to many of the cuts on Paragraph Nights, and songs like the bluesy, glitter rock stomper "Holy Ghost" and the fuzzy, girl group-sounding "Altamont Sunrise" play like long-lost college radio hits from the '90s. Similarly, tracks like the ebullient and driving "Wild Night" and the laid-back "Warriors" are perfect groovers for a late-summer afternoon. These are infectious, sunny cuts that mix the wide-eyed pop freedom of the Flaming Lips with a DJ's sense of dance club timing. Elsewhere, the disorienting and woozy "Barbarians," with its whining synths and buzzy low-end bassline, has a kind of genre-bending energy and cockeyed story arc that, much like the rest of Paragraph Nights, brings to mind a less bleak if equally as spiritually transcendent version of the Flaming Lips' The Soft Bulletin. In that sense, Paragraph Nights fits nicely alongside works by such similarly minded contemporaries as MGMT and AM & Shawn Lee. Ultimately, Paragraph Nights plays like a loose, sometimes literate, and often wry slacker song cycle about love, life, and good times. ~ Matt Collar

Product Details

Release Date:	02/19/2013
Label:	Bar/None Records
UPC:	0032862021916
Rank:	141549

Album Credits

Performance Credits

DRGN King   Primary Artist
Andrew Black   Bass
Eric Slick   Vocals (Background)
Julie Slick   Bass
Joe Baldacci   Drums
Ross Munro   Vocals
Mike Taylor   Vocals (Background)
Charlie Patierno   Congas
Brendan Mulvilhill   Vocals (Background)
Frances Quinlan   Vocals

Technical Credits

Andrew Black   Composer
Jeff Chestek   Mastering
Eric Slick   Vocal Arrangement
Julie Slick   Composer
Joe Baldacci   Composer,Engineer
David Richman   Design
Ross Munro   Composer
Dominic Angelella   Composer,Assistant,Group Member
Ritz Reynolds   Mixing,Composer,Engineer,Producer,Group Member
Adam Lovitz   Artwork
Anthony Farlow   Executive Producer
Frances Quinlan   Composer
Andy Black   Composer