Paramount Styles is an American indie rock

Indie rock

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 band from New York formed by Scott McCloud of Girls Against Boys

Girls Against Boys

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.

McCloud recorded the debut with Alexis Fleisig (Girls Against Boys), Richard Fortus

Richard Fortus

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 (Guns N' Roses

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, The Psychedelic Furs) and some others. Live the band consisted of Alexis Fleisig, Geoff Sanoff (Edsel

Edsel

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, Stratosphere

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) Simon Lenski

Simon Lenski

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 (DAAU

DAAU

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) playing cello, and Chris Smets (Star Club West) on lead guitar. In 2008, during the US tour John Schmersal

John Schmersal

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 (Enon

Enon

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) also participated as well as Geoff Sanoff, Michael Hampton and Julia Kent. In spring 2009, the band tours through Europe.

Band's second album will be released on October 2009.

Studio Albums

• Failure American Style, (2008, Cycle/Konkurrent)
• Heaven's Alright, (2010, Cycle/Konkurrent)

Split Releases

• Start Burning 2 - Split 7 inch with Aran Epochal (2008, Silver Rocket)