Paper Smile

Ambient pop-rock and post-punk hybrid with half-time 808 drums, lo-fi bass, soft piano riffs, tense guitar swells, and choir lift in the choruses; verses stay intimate with close-mic vocal and sparse band, pre-chorus strips to piano and low vocal harmonies, chorus opens wide with stacked choir doubles and gritty guitar hits, bridge drops to dark ambient texture before a final chorus surge. Bright but heavy mix, moody and cinematic with dusty low end and punchy drums., dark ambient, low, soft, rock, post-punk, happy, pop, ambient