Paperback Trash

Paperback Trash is the musical project of South London based songwriter/ producer Chris Roberts. Drawing on influences of 60`s psychedelia, post-punk and noise rock, his gloomy compositions hold up a terrible mirror to uncertain times.

 The debut single “Drifter Sleeps” is a paean to living life the wrong way, finding love and pain in an unforgiving world, and enjoying every second. Much like existence itself, you might think you know where this song is going, but you’ll find yourself pleasantly wrong. 

 “Drifter Sleeps” is the first single from the album "Silver Moon City Blues”, a brooding journey through a cursed, rain-soaked city in perpetual night. The album explores themes of hope and desolation in a world on the brink of despair, humanity’s relationship with nature, late-stage capitalism, isolation in an online world, misinformation and the deification of cult-like celebrity, wrapped in a schlocky b-movie narrative. The album will be released in the summer of 2024