You Can Have What You Want

Description

Papercuts You Can Have What You Want is the newest phase in Jason Quevers ongoing pop investigations. The relatively earthbound happy/sad pop of Mockingbird and Cant 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 Quevers 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 Cans Future Daysand then theres the inevitable connection to former tourmates Beach House and Grizzly Bear. Indeed, Beach Houses Alex Scally helped with some of the arrangements, though You Can Have What You Want is its own strain of addictive pop. For many, it will be the blissful/melancholy jam of the spring and summer.