Echo & Club Underground

PAPERCUTS featuring PORT O'BRIEN & SEAN BONES

Friday, Jun 26, 2009 7:00 PM PDT
at Echo
in Los Angeles, CA

Papercuts || Listen || MP3

Jason Quever's one-man (plus guests) band makes blurred-edge music with damp organs, milky guitars, reverbed vocals, and sticky, half-familiar melodies seemingly snatched from some collective unconscious. And the album's opening couplet, "Once we walked in the sunlight/ Three years ago this July 4th", sums up Papercuts' temperamental pitch with tweet-like brevity. Their 2007 LP was titled Can't Go Back, but as a songwriter Quever can't help but indulge nostalgia, including its bitter constituents, regret and remorse. Papercuts, however, aren't agoraphobic shut-ins exorcising romantic demons and venting life's inequities. A backward-- and inward?looking predilection actually serves the band artistically. Quever crafts his aesthetic from the raw materials of Zombies, Velvet Underground, and Galaxie 500 appreciation, Phil Spector worship, and an indie rock gospel that equates modest ambitions with really, really meaning it. Pitchfork

with:
Port O'Brien || Listen
Sean Bones

with resident DJs spinning the best in Brit / Indie / Soul / Twee / Madchester / Punk / Glam