Announced for Noise Pop Festival
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.
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.
What the press said about Papercuts' Can't Go Back:
"...this is easily the most exciting new pop album of a still young year. Can't Go Back grabs you with the first flurry of guitar strums, all cool, voluminous tone and three-dimensional space. It's the first salvo in what emerges as a damn-near perfect album, each cut luminous and distinct from the others, yet arranged in a way that flows easily from start to finish" -Dusted
"...uncorking a clutch of gorgeous emotion-drenched ditties in an affecting, androgynous croon." -SPIN
Papercuts
You Can Have What You Want
(Gnomonsong)
Out April 14, 2009
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
"...uncorking a clutch of gorgeous emotion-drenched ditties in an affecting, androgynous croon." -SPIN
"It's magnificent. It's clever and poppy and thought-provoking and, above all else, fun." -The Stranger
Papercuts
You Can Have What You Want
(Gnomonsong)
Out April 14, 2009
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
