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The Paper Raincoat
12+ albums
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about
The Paper Raincoat is an imaginative collaboration between Brooklyn songwriters Amber Rubarth and Alex Wong that brings to life a colorful world teeming with compelling characters, dream-like storylines, and metaphorical narratives. Their debut EP Safe in The Sound is an introduction to this fantasy world drawn from real experiences of excitement and solitude its creators shared in moving to New York City. The story is based around the world of a fictional character named Grace, who on the eve of her 50th birthday begins to question her happiness and the choices she's made in her life. When she receives news that her estranged father, a failed inventor, has died, she returns to her childhood home to help settle his affairs. While cleaning out his study, she uncovers early designs for a paper raincoat, the invention on which he staked their family fortune, and that subsequently tore the family apart when it failed to sell. She is flooded with intense memories of a pivotal day in that very room, when she made the conscious decision to give up on her dream of becoming a writer in order to avoid the disastrous effects that happened as a result of her father’s choices. She starts to question whether there might have been a better way for her life to unfold, and decides to find out by rewriting her own story in a novel she titles The Paper Raincoat. The songs are a cinematic blend of pop-folk orchestral arrangements, peppered with electronic textures, and overflowing with
top songs
albums
The Last Song (Original Soundtrack)
The Paper Raincoat
The Last Song
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Indie/Rock Playlist: July (2010)
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1% For The Planet, The Music (Vol. 1)
Safe In The Sound
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SXSW 2010 Showcasing Artists
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Paste Magazine Sampler 62 (May 2010)
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The Last Song: Original Soundtrack
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Safe In the Sound - EP
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New Arrivals Vol. 4: Artists Against Youth Homelessness
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The Last Song (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)