Papercuts are on tour with Camera Obscura this Nov. & Dec.
Papercuts released album number three, You Can Have What You Want, earlier this year and they recently stopped by the Yours Truly studios to perform a couple tracks from that release. They’ve also been working on new material, and will release a new 7″ and digital single for the brand new song “White Are The Waves” on Nov. 10 on Gnomonsong, just in time for their tour with Camera Obscura. The B-side of the single will be a re-working of a track from YCHWYW, “A Dictator’s Lament” (Neighbors Remix) – Neighbors is Andy Cabic of Vetiver and producer Thom Monahan.
Bio:
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
11/18 New Orleans, LA Tipitina’s +
11/19 Birmingham, AL The Bottletree +
11/20 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse +
11/21 Norfolk, VA Attucks Theatre +
11/22 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg +
11/24 Northampton, MA Pearl Street Ballroom +
11/25 Rochester, NY German House +
11/26 Toronto, ONT Phoenix +
11/27 Pontiac, MI The Crofoot Ballroom +
11/28 Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall Ballroom +
11/30 Bloomington, IN Bluebird +
12/01 St. Louis, MO Off Broadway +
12/02 Oxford, MS The Lyric Oxford +
12/03 Athens, GA 40 Watt +
+ = w/ Camera Obscura
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
Paper Cuts
White Are The Waves
(Gnomonsong)
Street date: Nov. 10, 2009
1. White Are The Waves
2. A Dictator’s Lament (Neighbors Remix)
PAPERCUTS LINKS:
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