Description:	Digipak mini CD on Destructible
	Format:	CD single
	Genre(s):	Indie Pop
	Label:	Destructible
	Price:	£5.19
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...according to our Brian on 14 January 2010.

Helen Page is the young lady responsible for 'Entering Pale Town', a mini album under her nom-de-plume Paperplain. She's one of that charming new breed of UK singer songwriter who blends sweet, twinkling melodies into a rich, homely folk template. Her style is, as reported, not too dissimilar to Laura Marling, her voice has that tender hiccup to it, her songs skip dreamily along in a gorgeous haze, but I can also hear parallels with the delightful off-kilter folk-pop of Caz Mechanic throughout these 7 songs and during the course you can hear delicious hints of the more intimate, tender end of North American ladyfolk (Mirah/Laura Veirs) . The two tracks from her deleted Too Pure singles club 7" are present & correct, making this a thoroughly well rounded and heartwarming collection of timeless, innocent gems. Beautiful!

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Sound clips for Entering Pale Town by Paperplain: on CD single at Norman Records UK. CD single, Destructible, DR08, £5.19.

What their label says...

“Rather like her most obvious British reference point, Laura Marling, Page writes songs that soothe
you with caressing brush strokes which later turn out to have talons at their tips. Arrangements and
textures are basic and threadbare — finger-picked guitar, hand claps, the tap of a knuckle on her six-
string’s body, circular, childlike piano figures, double-tracked vocals, harmonies above the main
melody in a lethally faux-naïf voice; but these strike you as evidence not of a primitive and
undeveloped talent, but rather of a musician who knows exactly what she is doing.”
Sunday Times Culture (Ten Bands To Watch In 2010)

Extremely accomplished yet playfully naïve, with the richly rewarding Entering Pale
Town, Paperplain is finally stepping out of the shadows.

Paperplain is just one girl – a diminutive 19 year-old called Helen Page. This is her
second release (her debut being the limited 7” of ‘11:30’ b/w ‘Spin Wheel’, which was
released through the Too Pure Singles Club in mid-2008) and outside of her new
mini-album having been mastered at Abbey Road, her music is as homespun as it
comes.

As Paperplain, Helen employs a basic eight-track recorder to capture her perform
every note before then multi-tracking them to achieve simple yet beautiful results.
Together, the seven tracks that make up Entering Pale Town serve well as an
introduction, helping to illustrate her music at its most pure. The labour intensive
approach she adopts doesn’t even register when her cultured sketches slowly reveal
themselves from behind the tape hiss; what makes it all the more impressive is that
she recorded it in its entirety in her bedroom and whilst still at college.

Tracklisting:

1. Pale Town
2. The Trip
3. Foreign Fingers
4. Go Go NY
5. 11:30
6. Rescue Boat
7. Spin Wheel