PAPERCUTS
Papercuts is music by Jason Quever with help from people like Graham Hill, David Enos, Frankie Koeller, and Alex Scally... |
01 December - Off Broadway w/ Camera Obscura, St Louis, Missouri
02 December - The Lyric w/ Camera Obscura, Oxford, Mississippi
03 December - The 40 Watt w/ Camera Obscura, Athens, Georgia
01. Once We Walked In The Sunlight
02. A Dictator's Lament
03. The Machine Will Tell Us
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
Buy from:
Memphis Industries
Rough Trade
Amazon
Norman
Piccadilly Records
- Gorgeous emotion drenched songs in an affecting androgynous croon - Spin
- Something special, a delicate mood piece made to slice through the din and chaos of modern life - 8.3 Pitchfork
- A reedy organ sighs over muted, cymbal-heavy drums, the searching voice coming over hazy and sad-eyed, the guitars & bass plucked away discreetly to create these awesome, heartbreaking & emotive songs that has me wanting to adopt them, like right fucking now. I insist. - Norman Records
- "You Can Have What You Want" is a moving gem of an album, a summer memory refracted through a lens, misty in the middle as well as at the edges, illuminated from within as a glow brings out a haze. - Piccadilly Records
09 April - Deaf Institute, Manchester
11 April - Bird On The Wire, London
12 April - Freebutt, Brighton
13 April - Rough Trade Instore, London
14 April - Cafe de la Danse, Paris
15 April - The Cellar, Oxford
16 April - The Legion, London
17 April - Buffalo Bar, Cardiff
24 April - Cafe du Nord - Record Release, San Francisco, California
02 May - Iota, Arlington, Virginia
03 May - Bowery Ballroom, New York, New York
04 May - Glass Museum, Petersborough, New Hampshire
05 May - Monkey House, Winooski, Vermont
06 May - Harper’s Ferry, Allston, Massachusetts
07 May - The Bell House, Brooklyn, New York
09 May - Metro Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
10 May - Grog Shop, Cleveland, Ohio
11 May - Union Bar and Grill, Athens, Ohio
12 May - AV-aerie, Chicago, Illinois
13 May - The Pike Room at The Crofoot, Pontiac, Michigan
14 May - Call The Office, London, Ontario
15 May - Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto
16 May - Big Orbit's Soundlab, Buffalo, New York
17 May - Copperworks, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
18 May - The Space/For The Needle Drop-noon, Hamden, Connecticut
19 June - Doug Fir, Portland, OR
20 June - Vera Project, Seattle, WA
25 June - The Independent, San Francisco, CA
26 June - The Echo, Los Angeles, CA
27 June - Downtown Brew, San Luis Obispo, CA
15 August - Route Du Rock Festival, St Malo, France
17 August - Night And Day w/ Port O'Brien, Manchester
18 August - BBC 6 Marc Riley radio session
19 August - Uncut Club Night w/ Wooden Shjips, The Borderline, London
20 August - Start The Bus, Bristol
21 August - Union Chapel, Islington, London (with Vetiver and Beach House)
06 September - Sunset Tavern w/Cass Mccombs, Seattle, Washington
07 September - Mississippi Studios w/Cass Mccombs, Portland, Oregon
09 September - Great American Music Hall w/Cass Mccombs and Girls, San Francisco, California
26 September - Henry Miller Library w/ Dodos & Ruby Suns, Big Sur, California
19 October - Bottom of the Hill w/ Beach House, San Francisco, California
18 November - Tipitina’s w/ Camera Obscura, New Orleans, Louisiana
19 November - The Bottletree w/ Camera Obscura, Birmingham, Alabama
20 November - Variety Playhouse w/Camera Obscura, Atlanta, Georgia
21 November - Attucks Theatre w/ Camera Obscura, Norfolk, Virginia
22 November - Music Hall of Williamsburg w/ Camera Obscura, Brooklyn, New York
24 November - Pearl Street Ballroom w/ Camera Obscura, Northampton, Massachusetts
25 November - German House w/ Camera Obscura, Rochester, New York
26 November - Pheonix w/ Camera Obscura, Toronto, Ontario
27 November - Crowfoot Ballroom w/ Camera Obscura, Ponticac, Michigan
28 November - Turner Hall Ballroom w/ Camera Obscura, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
30 November - Bluebird w/ Camera Obscura, Bloomington, Indiana
01 December - Off Broadway w/ Camera Obscura, St Louis, Missouri
02 December - The Lyric w/ Camera Obscura, Oxford, Mississippi
Jason was raised on a commune in Humboldt County, California. Orphaned at a young age Jason travelled up and down the US West Coast before finally settling in San Francisco in the late 90s.
Papercuts began initially as a 4 track recording project, in 2001. Around the same time Jason started recording and performing with local San Franciscan bands - including producing Cass McCombs' debut album "Not the Way" in 2002, working on records by the Skygreen Leopards and Casiotone for the Painfully Alone among others.
Jason recorded his first album as Papercuts (Mockingbird) in 2004 and followed that up with 2007's Cant Go Back. Both garnered great press (Uncut giving Mockingbird a **** and Pitchfork giving Cant Go Back an 8.3) but You Can Have What You Want is Papercuts' best yet.
Touching on '80s/'90s Creation and 4AD records, The Zombies, 60's French pop and even CAN's Future Days, You Can have What You Want is built on pulsing bass and Kraut-via-Ringo drum rhythms, with Jason's fragile falsetto draped in a distorted reverb gauze. All the tracks were recorded on to tape because, as Jason says, "it just sounds better" and the album features contributions from Beach House's Alex Scally and Graham Hill.
Says Jason: "my only real conscious effort with this record was to be more explorative, to find arrangement and sound territory that I hadn't covered". He was also heavily under the influence of the original Twilight Zone series: "I bought the DVDs and watched them a ton while I was writing the record," says Quever, "and it's clear to me that the shows mysterious, melancholic vibe seeped into album".
You Can have What You Want is a moving gem of an album, a summer memory refracted through a lens, misty in the middle as well as at the edges, illuminated from within as a glow brings out a haze.
