EX~PO (now renamed
PAPERMAPS) is the musical vision of Dean Marino, a Toronto-based songwriter, guitarist and record producer. Dean describes EX~PO as: “well-crafted indie pop, filtered through sunny vocal arrangements, fuzz-guitar, punchy rhythms with psychedelic ‘studio-head’ tendencies.” Like most kids, Dean grew up listening to his parent’s record collection. These stacks of vinyl and 8-tracks contained typical British invasion and West-Coast pop but his folks also had a penchant for oddities, like the VU, obscure soul and jazz. Also, unlike most kids, music completely saturate…
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