States (album)

States is the debut studio album by indie folk band the Paper Kites. The album was released on 1 August 2013, in Australia and 1 October 2013, in North America.[1][2][3]

States
Studio album by
The Paper Kites
ReleasedOctober 1, 2013 (2013-10-01)
Studio
  • Sing Sing Studios
  • Albert Studios
GenreIndie folk
Length56:03
LabelNettwerk
Producer
The Paper Kites chronology
Young North
(2012)		 States
(2013)		 twelvefour
(2015)
Singles from States
  1. "St. Clarity"
    Released: 21 June 2013
  2. "Young"
  3. "Tenenbaum"

Track listing

All songs written by Sam Bentley, except where noted.

  1. "Malleable Beings" – 5:05
  2. "St. Clarity" – 3:47
  3. "Living Color" – 4:24
  4. "Gates" – 4:40
  5. "Young" – 3:41
  6. "A Lesson from Mr. Gray" – 4:37
  7. "Tin Lover" – 3:19
  8. "Cold Kind Hand" – 4:01
  9. "Never Heard a Sound" (Bentley, David Powys) – 2:54
  10. "In Reverie" – 3:50
  11. "Tenenbaum" – 3:39
  12. "Portrait 19" – 4:46
  13. "I Done You So Wrong" (Bentley, Christina Lacy) – 7:13

Personnel

Credits adapted from State notes.[4]

The Paper Kites

  • Sam Bentley: vocals, guitar, keyboards
  • Christina Lacy: vocals, guitar, keyboards
  • David Powys: vocals, guitar, banjo, lap steel guitar
  • Josh Bentley: drums, percussion
  • Sam Rasmussen: bass, syntheziser

Production

Recording

  • Recorded at Sing Sing Studios and Albert Studios
  • Mastered at Sterling Sound

Charts
Chart (2013) Peak
position
scope="row"Australian Albums (ARIA)[5] 17
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gollark: They also did open *some* things.
gollark: In the 2022-2023 fiscal year, we intend to get more GPU compute and upgrade the neural nets.
gollark: Worse than the helloboi neural nets.

References
  1. Hudson, Alex. "The Paper Kites 'States' (album stream)". Exclaim!. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. Rowe, Matt. "Folk Rockers The Paper Kites Capture Plenty of Attention with States". The Morton Report. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  3. "EXCLUSIVE: Stream The Paper Kites Debut LP 'States'". The Music. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  4. "The Paper Kites – States". discogs. n.d. Archived from the original on 23 November 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  5. "Australiancharts.com – The Paper Kites – States". Hung Medien. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
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