The Paranoid Style

The Paranoid Style is a sprawling garage-punk-pop outfit built around singer and songwriter Elizabeth Nelson. Her articulate vocal delivery is fitting for a band named after historian Richard J. Hofstadter's 1964 essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics”. Nelson and her husband Timothy Bracy (formerly of the Mendoza Line and Slow Dazzle) lead a fluctuating lineup, sometimes numbering over a dozen players. Formed in Washington, DC in 2012, the Paranoid Style soon thereafter released the EPs The Power Of Our Proven System and The Purposes Of Music In General in 2013 as a split cassette by Misra, which received a rare glowing “A-” review by Robert Chrstgau. A third EP, Rock & Roll Just Can’t Recall, followed in 2015. The band's full-length debut, Rolling Disclosure, arrived on Bar/None in the summer of 2016, and the band continues to write and record to this day.