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Papercuts team up with Port O’Brien for West Coast tour

By June 1, 2009No Comments

Papercuts

MP3: Papercuts – “Future Primitive (Ruby Suns Remix)”

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. For many, it will be the blissful / melancholy jam of the summer.

PAPERCUTS

all dates with Port O’Brien

06/19 Portland, OR Doug Fir
06/20 Seattle, WA The Vera Project
06/25 San Francisco, CA The Independent
06/26 Los Angeles, CA The Echo
06/27 San Luis Obispo, CA Downtown Brewing Co.

Papercuts
You Can Have What You Want
(Gnomonsong)
Street date: April 14, 2009

01 Once We Walked In The Sunlight
02 A Dictator’s Lament
03 The Machine Will Tell Us So
04 A Peculiar Hallelujah
05 Jet Plane
06 Dead Love
07 Future Primitive
08 You Can Have What You Want
09 The Void
10 The Wolf

PAPERCUTS LINKS:

MySpace – www.myspace.com/thepapercuts

Press Materials – www.gnomonsong.com/papercuts