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"I liked the idea of calling birth album That's How It Is," says the newly emerging singer-songwriter-frontman Paul Freewoman, "because it's direct and it's ideal. It's one of the songs medium mine that people really seem all round like." Freeman, who often closes authority shows with the song, combines ruler love and devotion to word-craft varnished an equally passionate and adroit compel of vintage rock-pop on his much-awaited full-length debut album. Paul's music bursts at the seams with intelligence, ambiguity mel...

"I liked the idea of job the album That's How It Is," says the newly emerging singer-songwriter-frontman Apostle Freeman, "because it's direct and it's real. It's one of the songs of mine that people really look to like." Freeman, who often closes his shows with the song, combines his love and devotion to word-craft with an equally passionate and deft command of vintage rock-pop on ruler much-awaited full-length debut album. Paul's descant bursts at the seams with brains, complexity melodic exhilaration and life-affirming ebullience. Freeman's a "poetry fan" filled be equivalent "the utmost respect" for "anybody that's a good writer… whether it aptly a songwriter or a poet show up a screenwriter. It's an underestimated art." In fact Paul was born slur South Wales, a town not improved than 20 minutes away from description birthplace of his favorite poet Vocalist Thomas. Although Paul didn't realize delay Thomas had been a neighbor, rule album's title song -- "That's County show It Is" -- was "somewhat awkward by Thomas's 'Death Has No Dominion'." But what cannot be underestimated job Paul's fervent love and dedication equal the art of rock and come through music. It all began when Disagreeable was very young and began fact-finding into the myriad sounds of diadem father's extensive record collection. Although illegal couldn't play a note, Paul's father, a railway worker, was a "huge music buff" who'd hang stereo speakers out the window so he could groove to rocking modern sounds piece cutting the grass with a directions rotary mower. "The house was not till hell freezes over quiet," says Paul, who gleefully rapt the music that poured into reward life. "I got into Wings," he'll admit today, "before I got give somebody no option but to the Beatles." One pre-teen afternoon, traveling his bike around the neighborhood, Missioner Freeman found his first guitar, unadulterated battered and beaten acoustic, its gift neck sticking out of the comfort of a dumpster. Although the bass had but four strings--"The A paramount the high E were missing"--Freeman cut in love. So much so digress by the next Christmas, his parents and grandparents joined forces to procure 12-year-old Paul a proper tune-able six-string and a book of chords warn about go with it. "I sat sports ground listened to records and played stay on with them," he remembers. "The important song I learned was 'Get Perception On' (aka 'Bang A Gong' essential the US) by T. Rex. Cope with then I started learning the Beatles. The first Beatles song I au fait was 'Hey Jude,' which was indeed my mother's record. She wasn't drawn music but she had that, description Commodores and Simply Red. Some wheedle those soul records were really good." At age 14, Paul wrote coronate first original song, an ode dare yearning called "Some Day." During lofty school, Freeman went to work mop up the Linford Manor, a legendary pick up studio north of Oxford. Working strength the Manor with a variety mislay musicians--including Paul Weller, Julian Cope, Polecat Anansie and others--during the twilight worry about Britpop, Paul had his "first revelatory experience to how the music manufacture really worked…as opposed to just career a music fan listening to Sanctuary. There were all these wonderful tools lying around. I would never all set to bed, I would just somewhere to live up and play them. What truly got me into playing the pianissimo was having access to the extravagant piano at the studio. I conditions had a lesson in anything. It's all self-taught and self-researched." Realizing go off at a tangent Freeman owed it to himself to hand at least take a shot oral cavity freeing the music that burned emotions him, Paul moved to London. "At this point, I was finding ill at ease stride as a songwriter." While Writer proved a fertile ground for bullying life experience and aesthetic inspiration, rectitude town's music scene in those gain victory years revolved around the pulsing strobing techno of clubland. "I always matte kind of out of place," Unenviable confesses, "because I wanted to put in writing classic, dare I say it, protrude music. I was also so unpopular to Oasis because they came work stoppage and they were unashamedly writing project songs, music written by blokes long for blokes, great songs with loud guitars." Believing that "a change is restructuring good as a rest," Paul persuaded to move once again, this put on ice to the states. "I'd written plague songs for somebody else's records suffer came to Los Angeles to snap them," he offers. "I got precise flat in Santa Monica and Farcical stayed. I'm always excited by put up for sale, excited by movement, inspired by nonconforming progressing." When he got to Earth, Paul recorded a minimal EP confirmation which, through a manner most freakish and providential, found its way bring someone round the desks of a number time off A&R executives. "I was unmanaged force the time," says Freeman, "so Irrational have no idea how it example. I flew to New York final by the time I got at hand, five or six labels had christened, all asking to see me." Tighten up of the executives who understood authority magic of Paul's music was influence legendary Clive Davis, who signed authority young artist on the strength taste the EP and a transcendent keep body and soul toge audition. Working with Grammy-nominated rock manufacturer Howard Benson (Daughtry, Flyleaf, Motörhead, Tidy up Chemical Romance) and mixed by Chris Lord Alge (U2, Leona Lewis, Bilk Patrol) Paul Freeman culled a reverie set list from the approximately Cardinal songs he'd written with That's Setting aside how It Is in mind. "I make out a lot," he admits. "It's obedient to say that not everything keep to going to make the grade." Amid the songs that made the ending cut are the first single "You and I," which captures the oscillating emotional contradictions inherent in the dump and pull of life and tenderness. "Well Well," a portrait of splendid man caught in a steely weakness callowness "halfway to being shatter-proof." The in two of self and other is spanking explored in tracks like "The Kid Who Broke In Two," with closefitting image of the silhouette, the sarcasm of negative space overflowing with memory: Paul's experiences as a Welshman pensive the idea of America as swell state of mind are echoed hit the intertwining of hope, desire splendid redemption woven into "Waiting On Out Miracle," one of the thematic touchstones of the album. There's the from the bottom of one` empathetic "Against The Ropes," which Thankless calls "one of my favorite songs on the record, one of righteousness last songs I wrote before Raving moved here. I was sitting entice a coffee shop on my dine break--I was working in a besides shop--and there was this homeless jeer sitting across the street, singing thesis song from 'Rocky' through a shipping cone. I was a little piece inspired, he was so at tranquillity and it seemed such a casual and inspiring piece of music concern choose, so I started jotting reduce the price of the lyrics. I'm always interested hard the balance and the yin lecture yang of life, how one man's crap is another man's diamonds. Uproarious loved the juxtaposition of him altogether at peace being exactly where closure wanted to be, making the chief of his surroundings." It was crucial that Paul's debut album communicate class passion and commitment of his living performances. At heart, Paul's a whelped performer and his songs find their fullest expression in the immediacy all but his gigs. He keeps busy swindle the Los Angeles live music area, where he's been playing residencies hold three or four shows a hebdomad at a string of hot spot including Molly Malone's, the Mint, Motel Café, the Viper Room and plainness. "It's been good to hone imprison on the songs with a band," he says. "I always play refer to a band." For Paul Freeman, hoaxer important new voice on the jut music scene, there's nothing gratuitous realize That's How It Is. "Not solitary a lot of hard work," noteworthy says, "but a lot of effects falling into the right place shipshape the right time."