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Jason Quever is a maestro of shoegazer rock. His band Papercuts, which has increasingly become more of a one-man-in-his-own-studio kind of thing over the last few years, has also increasingly become one of the forbearers in the dream-pop genre. His 2007 record Can’t Go Back and 2009’s You Can Have What You Want are both ambitious and atmospheric records that explore vast sonic territory without even coming close to breaking the speed limit.

But as Quever has grown more comfortable crafting his own vision and experimenting with new sounds and sonic tools, Papercuts has become far more essential. Quever has had plenty of opportunity to grow and cut his teeth in the last few years. Since having his own San Francisco recording studio (known as “Pan American Recording Studio”) he has worked as an engineer/producer for Cass Mccombs, Port O’Brien, and Beach House. Through the years Papercuts have toured with such notable contemporaries as Grizzly Bear, Camera Obscura and Vetiver.

His new record, Fading Parade, which was his first record on Sub Pop, sounds larger and bolder than anything Papercuts has released to date. It’s a lo-fi epic that relishes in subverting a considerable pool of angst in a formidable wall of sound. Quever plays with all of his toys on this record at some point, but no matter if he is using the autoharp, Mellotron, Moog, piano, Echoplex, or analog tape, each is all employed with precision and feels perfectly in place.

BRIAN CONANT

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