Paper Giants: the architect learns to fold

Paper Giants studies The Architect: a man who spent a lifetime building structures — houses, careers, silences — to keep chaos out. Act one is the facade, satin-finished and load-bearing. Then the weather gets in.

“Rust in the Frame” finds the first corrosion. “Drinking Cement” is the old prescription: harden, harden, harden. The title track delivers the diagnosis the whole archetype was built to avoid — we are paper giants, impressive at a distance, foldable up close.

DannyHO plays it without mockery. The courage this album is after isn’t the stoic kind; it’s the fragile kind, the strength to admit the material. Giants fold. That’s how they finally fit through doors.