PAPER ROUTE--JT Daly (vocals, keyboards, percussion), Chad Howat (bass, piano, programming), Nick Aranda (guitar)--first conjured up their melody-driven take on electronic-leaning alt-rock back in 2004. Over the next few years, PAPER ROUTE split their time between touring with arena-filling acts like Paramore and sharing smaller stages with the likes of Thurston Moore and Mark Kozelek (their fellow performers at SXSW 2008’s Lou Reed tribute show). They released their full-length debut Absence in 2009 and their second LP The Peace Of Wild Things in 2012. The band continued to straddle the pop and indie worlds, heading out on the road with Imagine Dragons in 2013 and embarking on their own headlining tour in 2014.
Early in the autumn of 2014, the Nashville-based band moved into a cabin deep in the hills of Middle Tennessee, set up a makeshift studio, and spent a month dreaming up material for Real Emotion, their third album and first for Kemosabe Records. Charged with the raw energy that PAPER ROUTE has revealed in touring the world with bands like Imagine Dragons, Passion Pit and Mutemath, Real Emotion achieves that feeling in part by making guitars central to its intricately crafted arrangements.
Paper Route's lead single off their album Real Emotion, “Laugh About It,” debuted on SiriusXM’s Alt Nation and spun at Alternative radio nationwide. Another track from the upcoming album, “Chariots,” premiered on the official GamePlay trailer for FIFA 17.
