PARIS
Long bio

PARIS began playing Bay Area clubs in 1996, building an audience on a sound that is polished on purpose: industrial pop with the edges left in, and nowhere in the mix to hide. Every record is written, played and produced by PARIS alone.

The independently released debut EP arrived in 1997, led by "Consent of the Quiet" and "Don't Ask What I Am." Both songs circulated well beyond the club circuit, and the EP drew national press, including an interview in which PARIS declined, politely and at length, to explain any of it.

PARIS runs the label Hostile Takeover, which released the full-length Well Enough in 1997 with distribution by Interscope Records. Tribute, a collection of B-sides, followed soon after. Live, PARIS fronts a four-piece band of multi-instrumentalists who trade instruments from song to song, taking the records on the road in arrangements built for the stage.
