I get no shortage of submissions here, and singer-songwriters are two-a-penny in this inbox.

But Edinburgh’s Paper Rifles -ac

tually a one man band- who is a teacher by day (as I was one for several years I’m always sympathetic!)

has released a single and an EP over the last couple of months which y

ou can stream (and buy) via bandcamp and Anti-Manifesto label.

Much of what Jon has set out to do is to

debunk the notion that a singer-songwr

iter has to conform to a certain type. There’s a rough charm to these recordings -and I mean t

hat as a compliment. Angry and eloquent and rath

er compelling…

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