Paper Tiger has existed in one form or another since roughly 2002; it began as a distraction from the tedium of living in Wolverhampton. Without its members having a specific direction in mind (and after a few hastily-arranged live appearances around the Midlands), it has evolved into an album's worth of music with the organic sensibilities of funk, jazz and afro-beat, and the production values of modern hip-hop, broken-beat and dub. Built around the core of bassist Jim Cooper...