Brooklyn quintet Paul & The Patients [MySpace] are embarking upon the “To The Lions” project, which will see them releasing a new track every week until, well, they feel like stopping, I guess. The compositions will be made available to the general public, of course, both free and paid download at Bandcamp.com and via the band’s Song of The Week blog.

This week’s piece was the intriguing “Tiny Red Light”. The band dropped the original To The Lions EP in May, so I am absolutely stoked to finally take them in live as the band is playing CMJ this year, so if you are in New York, catch Paul & The Patients on October 21st when they play the Rumble CMJ party at Southpaw in Brooklyn.

Get more info and stuffs “after the jump”

“This week the inaugural composition is the captivating “Tiny Red Light”. As Paul describes it, the “song was written about a fight I had with a girl about my seemingly constant drinking. We had gone to bed, still angry, and neither one of us could sleep. The only source of light in the room was the tiny red light on the TV that means it’s turned off. The lyric is really the unspoken conversation we had while staring at that light.”

Earlier this May, Paul & The Patients released To The Lions (American Myth), a five song debut EP that barely marked the tip of the iceberg when it came to the catalog of compositions that Paul Holmes had been creating during long days and nights of songwriting. In the months since, and as he had done before the EP’s release, Paul would send along new home-recorded songs to friends and family via email once or twice a week without fail. Some had been recorded with the full band at their practice space, while others were solo and completely off the cuff. Or at least more so than the others, which were all written and recorded in short order. The lack of an outlet for these songs felt stifling, and so rather than let them collect dust and go without being listened to, Paul & The Patients decided they’d release them week-by-week on their own.

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