Papercuts

White Are The Waves

Papercuts

You Can Have What You Want

Papercuts

Can't Go Back

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MP3: Papercuts - "Future Primitive"

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Live

Sept. 26 - Big Sur, CA - Henry Miller Library w/ Dodos & Ruby Suns

Oct. 19 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill w/ Beach House

Nov. 18 - New Orleans, LA @ Tipitinas w/ Camera Obscura
Nov. 19 - Birmingham, AL @ Bottletree w/ Camera Obscura
Nov. 20 - Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse w/ Camera Obscura
Nov. 21 - Norfolk, VA @ Attucks Theatre w/ Camera Obscura
Nov. 22 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Willamsburg w/ Camera Obscura
Nov. 24 - Northampton, MA @ Pearl Street Ballroom w/ Camera Obscura
Nov. 25 - Rochester, NY @ German House w/ Camera Obscura
Nov. 26 - Toronto, ON @ Phoenix w/ Camera Obscura
Nov. 27 - Detroit, MI @ Crofoot Ballroom w/ Camera Obscura
Nov. 28 - Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall w/ Camera Obscura
Nov. 30 - Bloomington, IN @ Bluebird w/ Camera Obscura

Dec. 1 - St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway w/ Camera Obscura
Dec. 2 - Oxford, MS @ The Lyric w/ Camera Obscura
Dec. 3 - Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club w/ Camera Obscura

PAPERCUTS

MP3: Papercuts - "Future Primitive" I One Sheet: Download PDF |Press Photos: 1 2 3 4 5 6

Press photos # 5, 6 by Dana Laman

Papercuts' You Can Have What You Want is the newest phase in Jason Quever's ongoing pop investigations. The relatively earthbound happy-sad pop of Mockingbird & Can't Go Back is now launched into the vault of the skies. Here Quever delves further into epic, hazy pop using mostly vintage organs, pulsing bass & Kraut-via-Ringo-inspired drum rhythms. Intact from those earlier efforts are Quever's sense of arrangement and drama, as well as his soaring vocals, draped in reverb gauze.

The words reveal an obsession with mortality and things cosmic, while sonically the voice acts as another instrument. This obsessively all analog effort (no computer processing here whatsoever!) cuts across several eras of dreamy sound: 80's/90's Creation & 4AD records, The Zombies, 60's French pop, even CAN's Future Days, & then there's the inevitable connection to former tourmates Beach House & Grizzly Bear. Indeed, Beach House's Alex Scally helped with some of the arrangements, but You Can Have What You Want is its own strain of addictive pop.

Links: Papercuts on MySpace