Papercuts - Do What You Will / Thoughts on Hell

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5...according to our Brian on Thu 27 Jan, 2011.

Now I completely adore this chap's music. Papercuts are one of the most annoying things in the world but Jason Quever and his hazy melancholia always transports me & my wretched life to a very special place indeed, if only for a few minutes at a time. If anyone out there loved early Cass McCombs and hankers for his old bewitching cavernous sound, you know, this tremulous, soulful & spectral style of guitar pop all wrapped up with a soft yearning crooner's voice; you've got to hear Papercuts. I could listen to this stuff forever, a faraway look in my eyes, food going cold, the day turning to dusk, the phone rudely unanswered. This is my favourite place to be & I quite simply don't want to leave. The best thing Sub Pop have put out in quite a while, and yes, his 4th album is in the bag. In the meantime buy 'Do What You Will', you won't regret it, I assure you.

· First single for Papercuts’ fourth album, the
upcoming Sub Pop release ‘Fading Parade’.

· Papercuts’ prinicipal Jason Robert Quever’s
beautiful songwriting is thoughtful, evocative,
subtle, and simultaneously ambitious. And the new
Papercuts album, ‘Fading Parade’, the band’s
fourth overall, is dream pop of the highest order.

· Crafted over the course of several months at The
Hangar in Sacramento with Thom Monahan, and
at Quever’s own Pan American Recording
studio, ’Fading Parade’ is meticulously designed
pop music with a fully developed sense of space
and a sturdy wall of sound.

· With the aid of strings, autoharp, Mellotron,
Moogs, 12-string acoustic guitars, piano,
echoplexes, analog and digital recording methods,
this new album is wide-ranging and adventurous,
through the up-tempo jangle of ‘Do You Really
Wanna Know’, the soaring and resonant ‘Do What
You Will’, the moody swirl of ‘I’ll See You Later, I
Guess’, and the folky, piano-driven ‘Winter Daze’.

· Imagine Belle & Sebastian teaming up with
Slowdive and recording with Phil Spector.

· ‘Fading Parade’ is Papercuts’ first album for Sub
Pop.

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