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In Monochrome - Paragon Cause Remix

A dream inspired track about the future. Recording at Neko Studio. 

Written by M VanKheul, K Opthof

Performed byM VanKheul, K. Opthof, B. Ross

Produced by The Desk

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The hit single from the EP Lies Between Us by Paragon Cause

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Lies Between Us

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When creativity meets talent, drive, and encouragement from a valued mentor, the results can be spectacularly successful and incredibly fulfilling.

Ottawa-based ethereal alternative/electro-pop duo Paragon Cause are such a case, as their new full-length album, What We Started, is a powerfully bold statement by a band that is brimming with confidence and artistic zeal.

Coming less than a year after the release of their EP Lies Between Us, it sees the dynamic musical duo of Michelle Opthof and Jay Bonaparte reunite with producer/songwriter Sune Rose Wagner, a Danish pop music legend, best known for his band The Raveonettes. Together, over an intensive and intensely collaborative session in the fall of 2019, they composed, arranged and produced an collection of 10 exceptional new songs, that highlight the magical way Paragon Cause have evolved as artists, developing a style and sound that is imbued with emotional darkness, light and plenty of shades of grey.

The first single for the album, Lost Cause, is the perfect example of this edgy and more instinctive approach to writing, as it began with Opthof noodling around on a piano, while Wagner and Bonaparte were out of the studio. They returned and encouraged her to keep developing the unique riff into a full composition. She later added parts of lyrics that she had rolling around in her head for some time, brought a powerfully compelling melody into the mix and a potential hit was born.

“It’s a song about the end of a relationship and coming to the conclusion that the other person is a lost cause. Sune loved the song right from the beginning, and once I started working on the lyrics and melody, it just came together super fast after that. I guess I was just in a mood,” Opthof said with a chuckle.

Thematically and sonically, Paragon Cause’s form of pop music is expressive, but often of emotions and experiences that lean towards the darker, grittier and less rose-tinted version of the human experience. Opthof admits that writing is a way for her to process and expunge her darker thoughts, and express sentiments that may not always be happy, but are ones that most people can identify with – exactly the purpose of good art.

What We Started

Lost Cause

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Someone Else, the intense opener off the new album by Paragon Cause -Lies Between Us. 

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Making Up for Lost Time
written and performed by Jay Bonaparte, Michelle Opthof and Sune Rose Wagner
Produced by Sune Rose Wagner
Lyrics and Voice by Michelle Opthof
Guitars - Jay Bonaparte
Drums and Bass - Sune Rose Wagner 

Paragon Cause, the ethereal electro-rock duo from Ottawa, did not let 2020 slow them down. Fresh off the successful release of their prior two albums, the duo is set to release a collection of singles, an EP (Crazy Over You, 2021) and a new album (Autopilot!) that further highlights their desire to create music that is both compelling and artistically fulfilling. The due further expanded their palate by bring some iconic and surprising collaborators on board, Liam Howe (Sneaker Pimps) and Eric Avery (Jane’s Addiction). Although the duo is known to lean towards the darker side of music, this collection of songs provides a welcome sense of optimism. 

With a style that combines a warm, enveloping electronic sound that at times borders on post-punk and shoegaze, Paragon Cause bring melody and excitement to the forefront, defying labels. Combine that with Indie influenced vocals that stand up to the best you can think of, Autopilot feels that creatively the gloves are finally off. 

Though written and recorded before the world went into lockdown, this new album has been cast in a new light due to the pandemic and the combination of longing and optimism in each song feeling more acute. 

Autopilot also represents two musicians—Michelle Opthof and Jay Bonaparte—continuing to make the most of their time, and because of that, taking chances they might not have otherwise. It’s that embrace of risk that brought them to their most trusted collaborators, Sune Rose Wagner, leader of the Raveonettes. 

With Wagner collaborating on every step of the process, Paragon Cause banged out all the songs for Autopilot in 10 days—a spontaneous outpouring of creativity where the music and melody would spark lyrical ideas and vice versa. While they came into the initial sessions with dozens of small ideas for potential songs, the duo estimates that those resulted in minor elements for two tracks. The rest came via flashes of inspiration. 

Paragon Cause are making the most of their time this year in advance of Autopilot’s release, with plans to drop seven singles from the record over the course of 2021, leading to the full album unveiling in early 2022. Kicking things off is the appropriately named lead single “Making Up For Lost Time,” a track that Bonaparte says was an attempt to combine the feeling of a Jesus and Mary Chain tune with the structure of an Everly Brothers song. And it was this song that Wagner helped bring across the finish line by encouraging to spend an evening listening to Bananarama. After that, the song wrote itself, with lyrics of taking chances, making mistakes, and acknowledging those same missteps. 

“It’s happy, but there is a sense of longing,” Bonaparte says about “Making Up For Lost Time.” “It was initially meant to be about friends but after the last year with COVID, I think it can be applied to our current life in general. We want people to either sit in their car or put on some headphones and close their eyes. We want people to hear the song and remember what it was like living the last year and then feel the sense of optimism as life will start to come back to us. By the end of the song, we want people excited to begin the next chapter in their lives. It is meant to be a glimmer of hope through the long fog of isolation, whether it be from a past relationship or life.” 

Paragon Cause certainly have a lot to be excited about. On top of this new album and the many singles that are to come this year, the duo will have the distinct honor of remixing a new track from classic new wave band Berlin (“No More Words,” “Take My Breath Away”), and will surely be working on more new music along the way. There’s no time to waste.

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Making Up For Lost Time

Sometimes it takes a little while for a song to grow on you, even if you’re the one who wrote it. For guitarist/songwriter Jay Bonaparte of Ottawa electro-rock duo Paragon Cause, he had initial doubts as to the structure of a song he had just written. After sitting down with partner Michelle Opthof and producer/collaborator Sune Rose Wagner to add some meat to his musical bones, Two to Play is now one of the best compositions on the band’s forthcoming new album.

And in an interesting twist, the lyrics tackle the issue of being a people pleaser and trying to cater to other people’s needs, desires and tastes.

“When I was writing the words, I realized that I have this desire to make everyone happy and please people, which a lot of other people have. In that moment I realized, ‘you know what? No, I am not going to seek the approval of everyone. I am just going to go it alone and do my own thing.’ And it wasn’t about being petulant and selfish, it was about confidence and relying on my own talents and opinions and feelings – putting myself first,” said Opthof, adding that this attitude of having faith in one’s own abilities and being brave and taking risk applies to Paragon Cause’s approach to their music and careers in recent years, especially in the creative process leading to Autopilot.

Bonaparte overrode his early hesitancy once he heard the melody and vocal tracks as well as some saucy and scintillating keyboard elements added by Wagner.

“It was a very strange experience writing that song. We almost deleted it, and now it’s one of my favorite songs on the album, which is strange because I usually don’t do a 180 like that. I just knew I wanted a dream poppy, shoe gazey, dramatic, powerful kind of song, and that’s what we ended up with,” he said.

A topical song with an incessantly groovy melodic hook and rhythmic intensity, Two to Play is another example of the songwriting and performance excellence of the talented duo that comprise Paragon Cause. 
lyrics
Looking forward falling back
Moving along without your blessing
Time won’t stop for you

Pushing pushing your not ready
You’ve fallin behind and your running now
There’s no guarantees
And your certainty scares me

How do you know if you’ll still be there
How will you know when I pass by
Looking forward falling back
Moving along without your blessing
Time won’t stop for you

I keep running until the guilt sets in
I knew when I began that it was wrong
I did it anyway
I did it anyway
It takes two to play

I took delight in the fall
Cuz for them you took him down you took him down
You think that you could get away with this

Now your running scared
Now your running scared
Now your running scared
Now your running scared
Now your running scared
Now your running scared
Now your running scared
Now your running scared
credits
from Autopilot - LP, releases August 13, 2021
Written by Jay Bonaparte, Michelle Opthof, Sune Rose Wagner
Performed by Paragon Cause and Sune Rose Wagner
Lyrics by Michelle Opthof
Guitar: Jay Bonaparte
Keyboard: MIchelle Opthof
Bass : Jay Bonaparte
Drums: Sune Rose Wagner
Recorded at Neko Studies, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2021

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When creativity meets talent, drive, and encouragement from a valued mentor, the results can be spectacularly successful and incredibly fulfilling.

Ottawa-based ethereal alternative/electro-pop duo Paragon Cause are such a case, as their new full-length album, What We Started, is a powerfully bold statement by a band that is brimming with confidence and artistic zeal.

Coming less than a year after the release of their EP Lies Between Us, it sees the dynamic musical duo of Michelle Opthof and Jay Bonaparte reunite with producer/songwriter Sune Rose Wagner, a Danish pop music legend, best known for his band The Raveonettes. Together, over an intensive and intensely collaborative session in the fall of 2019, they composed, arranged and produced an collection of 10 exceptional new songs, that highlight the magical way Paragon Cause have evolved as artists, developing a style and sound that is imbued with emotional darkness, light and plenty of shades of grey.

Wagner had been a long-time idol of both Opthof and Bonaparte, but this time around, they were less star-struck and approached the sessions that would lead to What We Started with a heightened level of confidence and focus in their own abilities, seeing Wagner now as more of a valued senior collaborator.

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