Past Life Regression

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1.	Lodger 04:09 video	buy track
2.	Sinister Smile 04:04	buy track
3.	Fade Out 04:11	buy track
4.	I Want My Jacket Back 04:28 video	buy track
5.	My Sympathies 02:58	buy track
6.	The Strange Boys 03:32	buy track
7.	Palm Sunday 03:35	buy track
8.	Hypnotist 05:01	buy track
9.	Remarry 04:52	buy track
10.	Comb In Your Hair 02:53	buy track

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Jason Quever has been releasing timeless guitar-based dream pop as Papercuts since 2004, impervious to trends or micro genres that have come and gone around him. In that regard, his contemporaries are artists like Hiss Golden Messenger, Fruit Bats, Andy Shauf or Kings of Convenience – artists who are more concerned with song craft and perfecting their sound, and less concerned with gimmicks or fitting into a specific scene. "Past Life Regression" is his new album and it's a journey into the dreamier reaches of psychedelic folk-pop that digs deep into influences as wide-ranging as The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Spiritualized, Echo & The Bunnymen, Leonard Cohen and late 60s pop of various flavors.

Crafted shortly after Jason's relocation back to the San Francisco Bay Area after several years in LA, the new album revels in the tensions between the pleasures of homecoming and the collective miseries of the pandemic and our current political upheaval. The return home and the enforced isolation of lockdown lend the album a mood of contemplation and immersion in memory. The results are beguiling, from the lush sunshine pop harmonies of first single "I Want My Jacket Back" to the trippy farfisa-driven space-pop of "Lodger" to the gorgeous, Bunnymen-tinged "Palm Sunday."

As always, Jason's songcraft, arranging and production are immaculate, (Quever has been tapped to work with dream pop Luminaries Dean Wareham and Beach House as of late) as evidenced by the elegant chamber-pop of "My Sympathies" and the epic flow of "The Strange Boys", “Hypnotist" and "Remarry" in the album's warbly second half. The mood of longing and recollection is a perfect match for the album's dreamy textures and for the unusual times we're living through. It's a true testament to the resilience of the Papercuts project that after several acclaimed albums, Jason still has much that's new to say, and is continually finding new ways to say it.

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released April 1, 2022

All songs written and recorded by Jason Quever.
3, 4, 5, 9 lyrics written by Jason Quever and Donovan Quinn.
Amy Marco - backing vocals on 1, 4, 6, 7.
Will Halsey - drums on 3, 4.
Cover art by David Enos.
Mastered By Heba Kadry.

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Papercuts San Francisco, California

Papercuts is the music of San Francisco based songwriter Jason Quever. Papercuts blends elements of shoegaze, folk, and 60's pop. After A brief hiatus to focus on production work that has included Beach House, Dean Wareham and others, Papercuts return with “Past Life Regression” (2022) ... more

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