The fantastic video for Paul’s new single ‘In A Coma’ is now up online and features cameos from Ralph Brown (Withnail & Is Camberwell Carrot aficionado / Waynes World 2 / Aliens etc), Aaron King, Stars and Sons and old flat mates THE XCERTS. The single will be out to buy as digital download on July 6th and will be the second single to be taken from his new album Moon Rock.

Paul Steel returns this summer with a new album ‘Moon Rock’ and an animated movie version of his of critically acclaimed debut album “April & I”.

After releasing his debut album as a limited edition in 2007 he signed to Polydor where he recorded his second album “Moon Rock” with Tony Hoffer in LA. After a number of live dates at Fuji Rock and V along with supports with Sean Ono Lennon, The Bee’s, Electric Soft Parade, Amy Winehouse, Ed Harcourt, and Cornelius Paul then parted with Polydor to go it alone.

With his newfound freedom Paul is experiencing an Indian summer and will release his new album, “Moon Rock” along with an animated movie for “April & I” on July 20th.
“Moon Rock” is brimming with fizzy, contemporary pop songs that is by turns charming, magnetic, whimsical and (without being all ‘oh-look-at-me-I’m-hilarious’) extremely funny. “There are more conventional songs in the new album,” Paul says, “but it’s still not your standard rock stuff. I tried to make sure I was using influences without exploiting them.”

Standout tracks include “In A Coma”, written by Paul in a San Diego Zoo about a person who heroically saves a girl from being hit by a taxi. “It’s all about the frustration of being in a coma while the girl you saved is by your bedside falling in love with you, but you can’t do anything with it because you’re all asleep and shit.” Elsewhere there’s the earthy and intense “The Way You Are”, and the psychedelic, Fantasia-influenced “Moon Rock”. “Emo Joe” is another quite good one. “It’s a song about the cult, almost religious aspect of the emo kids where everyone lives to a code,” Paul says. He adds – as only a perennially happy man can – “I don’t even know what emo is”.

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Paul Steel is back with an animated movie version of his critically acclaimed debut album ‘April & I’ on July 20th after a 10 week serialisation on his You Tube and My Space Channels.