***NOW AVAILABLE IN A DELUXE VINYL EDITION!!! Songwriter and studio wizard JASON QUEVER is the mastermind behind San Francisco’s PAPERCUTS, his hazy and psychedelic pop has sold tens of thousands of albums over 4 album releases: first 2004’s Mockingbird for Antenna Farm, then 2 critically acclaimed albums for Devendra Banhart and Andy Cabic’s label Gnomonsong (2007’s Can’t Go Back and 2009’s You Can Have What You Want).?! Papercuts signed to Sub Pop in early 2011, and their subsequent release of the Fading Parade album has brought the band to a whole new audience.?! Originally only released on CD, Antenna Farm is re-releasing Mockingbird on a limited edition blue vinyl LP (140-gram vinyl, limited to 500 copies) newly remastered by California auteur JJ GOLDEN and including a bonus 7-inch of two previously unreleased tracks from the Mockingbird sessions; all 12 tracks are included as a free MP3 download with the LP..?!
LP+7" $20.60
02/14/2012
***AVAILABLE AGAIN!!! PAPERCUTS is part of the emerging San Francisco indie-singer/songwriter scene that produced the critically acclaimed Cass McCombs (4AD) and Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.?! The band is the brainchild of JASON QUEVER, who engineered and produced Cass' first two releases.?! This is Papercuts' first formal release and it is a collection of beautifully orchestrated lo-fi chamber pop with glimmers of Americana, bringing to mind the best of Smile-era Beach Boys, Beachwood Sparks, and Elliot Smith..?!
CD $10.25
04/06/2010
The Papercuts return with a new single featuring a brand new song, "White Are the Waves," backed with a Neighbors (Vetiver / Gnomodomo Andy Cabic and producer Thom Monahan) remix of "A Dictator's Lament," a track from last spring's You Can Have What You Want album. Recorded on the heels of extensive touring (most recently the UK, France, and the US West Coast) in support the highly regarded You Can Have What You Want, "White Are the Waves" shows the band in tip-top form.?! Papercuts leader and songwriter Jason Quever doesn't depart from the retro future cosmic fragile pop fever-dream of his latest album, laying the melody out on the most soulful wash of Casio strings, over a simple, drop-dead perfect beat.?!
7" $5.75
11/24/2009
MP3 $1.98
11/24/2009
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 and Can't Go Back has been launched into the vault of the skies.?! Here, Quever delves further into epic dream-pop using mostly vintage organs, pulsing bass, and Kraut-via-Ringo-inspired drum rhythms.?! Intact from those earlier efforts is Quever's sense of arrangement and drama, as well as his soaring vocals, draped in reverb gauze.?! The words reveal a fascination 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: '80s/'90s Creation and 4AD Records, The Zombies, '60s French pop, even Can's Future Days--and then there's the inevitable connection to former tourmates Beach House and Grizzly Bear.?!
CD $13.00
04/14/2009
LP+CD $16.00
05/12/2009
MP3 $9.90
04/14/2009
Papercuts is Jason Quever's cathedral of sound, stemming from a desperate analog worship and respect for musicianship of the old world.?! His new album for Gnomonsong, Can't Go Back, is a marriage of timeless songs, richly textured studio sounds, classic rock/pop hookery, and focused narratives -- all delivered with Quever's warm voice and wonderfully layered melodies. The first formal Papercuts release, Mockingbird (2004), received a warm critical reception, earning four stars in Great Britain's Uncut.?! The song "Pan American Blues" was a top-five download of the week on insound.com and the album rode the CMJ Top 200 for months.?! Before this, life was different.?! Raised in a commune in Humbolt County, Quever drifted up and down the West coast, eventually making a home for himself in San Francisco.?!
LP $12.00
02/13/2007
CD $12.00
02/13/2007
MP3 $9.90
02/13/2007