Since the appearance of his first album ‘The Werewolf of London’ in 1980 (a John Peel favourite and a regular featured album at the legendary Bat Cave) Paul Roland has written and recorded more than 20 albums including ‘A Cabinet of Curiosities’ which ‘Rolling Stone’ named “one of the best albums you’ve probably never heard”, the H.P. Lovecraft-inspired ‘Reanimator’ and ‘Bates Motel’ with songs written for surviving members of the Velvet Underground.

For four decades Paul has been spinning twisted tales of Victorian villains, eccentric Edwardian inventors and the supernatural against a backdrop of gothic-psych-baroque pop, while remaining a proudly independent niche artist.

“Paul Roland writes nice melodies and has a very particular personality, but he is too intellectual for me!” (Frank Zappa, 1988)
“Roland is the male Kate Bush” (Robyn Hitchcock)
“Roland has written ‘masterful Syd Barrett-style pop tunes orchestrated in the manner of SF Sorrow by The Pretty Things’ and made many fine albums, all of them have moments of greatness.” Jim DeRogatis (‘Rolling Stone’, ‘Chicago Sun Times’)

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