On 2 May 2005, Caesars, the band behind the latest i-Pod Shuffle sound, released their new album, Paper Tigers.
"This is straight from the garage; bran-mashed guitars, moonshine organs and enough inbred rock'n' roll to make Jack and Meg blush” NME
Caesars take a confident step out of the garage on their new album, 'Paper Tigers' - a lively, layered rock album informed as much by Lennon/McCartney as the 13th Floor Elevators and Stooges. Hailed by Rolling Stone as “garage aesthetes” for their smart, tuneful takes on ‘60s psychedelic and garage rock on earlier records, the Caesars broaden their musical and lyrical palate on 'Paper Tigers', entering adulthood without abandoning their sense of taste and irony.
Produced by the band’s Joakim Åhlund, the album covers a wide range of moods, from the pulsing, buzzy guitar and organ rock of ‘Not The Fall That Hurts’ and ‘Soul Chaser’, to the warm ‘60s soul of ‘My Heart is Breaking Down’ to the introspective, textured ‘Your Time Is Near’, to the mellotron-accented ‘Winter Song’. The album’s lead track, ‘Spirit’, is perhaps its most ambitious song.
'Paper Tigers' is the fourth proper Caesars album, following on the heels of 2003’s acclaimed compilation '39 Minutes of Bliss' (In An Otherwise Meaningless World). Recorded following a busy year of touring the world in support of that release, Paper Tigers bears the mark of a band tending to cracks in their respective domestic worlds. ‘Soul Chaser’ with its refrain, “you bent your mind you spent your life and end ended up with what? / but you’ve gone way too far by now to turn around”, examines the realization that carefree has slipped into adulthood. 'Paper Tigers', the album’s soaring title track, articulates the yearning for redemption: “It’s in every single one of us / looking for a single cause / hoping for a second shot”.
'Jerk It Out' was a ubiquitous minor hit, appearing on the radio and in more than a handful of TV shows, films and now the iPod ad, and recently receiving Single of The Week on Jo Whiley’s Radio 1 show and the XFM Breakfast show. Comments Ahlund on the song’s fuzzy meaning, “It means to just let out some steam, freak out, let yourself go, get crazy etc. All that stuff. Don’t feel ashamed of your different and weird sides ‘cause they’re what makes you beautiful.”
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