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Track Listings
| 1. Once We Walked in the Sunlight |
| 2. A Dictator's Lament |
| 3. The Machine Will Tell Us So |
| 4. A Peculiar Hallelujah |
| 5. Jet Plane |
| 6. Dead Love |
| 7. Future Primitive |
| 8. You Can Have What You Want |
| 9. The Void |
| 10. The Wolf |
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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 and Can't Go Back has been launched into the vault of the skies. Here, Quever delves further into epic dream-pop using mostly vintage organs, pulsing bass, and Kraut-via-Ringo-inspired drum rhythms. Intact from those earlier efforts is Quever's sense of arrangement and drama, as well as his soaring vocals, draped in reverb gauze. The words reveal a fascination 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: '80s/'90s Creation and 4AD Records, The Zombies, '60s French pop, even Can's Future Days--and then there's the inevitable connection to former tourmates Beach House and Grizzly Bear. Indeed, Beach House's Alex Scally helped with some of the arrangements, though You Can Have What You Want is its own strain of addictive pop. For many, it will be the blissful/melancholy jam of the spring and summer.
Quever was raised on a commune in Humboldt County, orphaned, and moved up and down the West Coast before calling San Francisco home and starting Papercuts, initially as a four-track recording project. When not performing with his own band, he can often be found recording others in his studio and filling in when needed as a multi-instrumentalist in friends' groups.
It takes a few seconds of Papercuts' second album, Can't Go Back, to think that maybe you've stumbled upon something special, a delicate mood piece made to slice through the din and chaos of modern life.
--Pitckfork (8.3 rating)
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 and Can't Go Back has been launched into the vault of the skies. Here, Quever delves further into epic dream-pop using mostly vintage organs, pulsing bass, and Kraut-via-Ringo-inspired drum rhythms. Intact from those earlier efforts is Quever's sense of arrangement and drama, as well as his soaring vocals, draped in reverb gauze. The words reveal a fascination 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: '80s/'90s Creation and 4AD Records, The Zombies, '60s French pop, even Can's Future Days--and then there's the inevitable connection to former tourmates Beach House and Grizzly Bear. Indeed, Beach House's Alex Scally helped with some of the arrangements, though You Can Have What You Want is its own strain of addictive pop. For many, it will be the blissful/melancholy jam of the spring and summer.
Quever was raised on a commune in Humboldt County, orphaned, and moved up and down the West Coast before calling San Francisco home and starting Papercuts, initially as a four-track recording project. When not performing with his own band, he can often be found recording others in his studio and filling in when needed as a multi-instrumentalist in friends' groups.
It takes a few seconds of Papercuts' second album, Can't Go Back, to think that maybe you've stumbled upon something special, a delicate mood piece made to slice through the din and chaos of modern life.
--Pitckfork (8.3 rating)
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This is Papercuts' third album, and it couldn't do a better job of simultaneously thwarting and exceeding expectations. For one thing, the sound of it is completely different from their last release, "Can't Go Back," and in fact feels like a throwback to their first, "Mockingbird." The vocals are buried in the mix, the arrangements are heavy and hazy, the lyrics darker with an apocalyptic, sci-fi bend.
Then there are the songs. Jason Quever's spooky gift for the perfect melancholy melody only gains momentum here, and if the chorus of "The Machine Will Tell Us So" doesn't give you goosebumps, you're just not listening.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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kinda zombies,
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reminds me of The Zombies, and that could be the best thing ever. simply amazing. it's like the zombies meets ambulance ltd. with the hidden splash of clinic. one of the best things i've ever heard. ever. sometimes peter and gordon-ish.
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This album is amazing. As mentioned in a previous review, it does remind me alot of the Zombies, definetely got a 60s vibe going. The whole album is solid; not a bad song on here. I can't stop listening to it. I can't wait to check out more from this band.
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