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Brought up in a commune in Humboldt County, California, Jason Quever settled in San Francisco, initially recording piano tracks for fellow much-traveled trubadour Cass McCombs (Quever has since worked alongside Beach House, Vetiver and Casiotone For The Painfully Alone). His debuting work as Papercuts - Rejoycing Songs - was given only a limited release in 2000 before the more realised Mockingbird arrived in 2004. Three years later Can't Go Back was released on Devendra Banhart and Andy Cabic's Gnomonsong label to growing regard before You Can Have What You Want being granted a wider European release via Memphis Industries in 2009.
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 Jason Quever’s fourth record under the Papercuts name is his first on the legendary Sub Pop label (he’s still on Memphis Industries in the UK) and that step up to the ‘big-indies’ is suited perfectly to the newly focused, superbly evocative sound that Quever has shaped on... |
 Papercuts is the work of San Francisco resident Jason Quever, singer, guitarist, producer and performer of elegant, melancholic pop music. His third album You Can Have What You Want, due to be released next week, represents a step forward for him: more ambitious sonically and lyrically, it... |
 It’s one of the oldest tricks in the book: put joy and pain in the ring and let them fight it out. Anyone who’s ever heard Burt Bacharach or The Smiths will know the power of combining the two in the same moment, and of using the tension between music and lyrics to hint at the... |
 A recent Sunday Times Culture article heralded the return of shoegaze, a genre supposedly pioneered by My Bloody Valentine’s superlative album Loveless. According the article’s author Paul Lester, the influence of the aforementioned Dubliners can be seen in artists like Deerhunter,... |
