Label: Ever/Never – e/n-032
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM, Mini-Album
Country: USA
Released: 07 Dec 2018
Genre: Rock
Words from E/N below..(mint / new)
Over the course of TTN’s four songs, Papiercuts and his crack band sculpt stately tableaus that hew toward the dark side of pop while avoiding cliches and sentimentality. ‘There’s no correction, no distortion / in the way your voice cuts through the air’: So begin the lyrics to opening cut ‘A Place to Stay,’ which serves as a re-introduction to Papiercuts’s sound-world, this time around avoiding obfuscation and willing to meet the listener halfway. ‘Starless Summer Night’, an epic, seven-minute centerpiece, is described by Papiercuts as a ‘lucid nightmare’ in the tradition of the Elevators and Tom Verlaine, but where apocalyptic dread mingles with the everyday anxieties of fatherhood. This is big pop music for big hearts and minds. But the hit on Twisting the Night is ‘The Riddle,’ a shimmering anthem that whorls about like a mirage, seducing the listener as it takes its time to get into its zone. ‘World and Not World’ closes out the EP with hints of Madchester poking through the rhythm ’n’ wooze. ‘Turn it off,’ Papiercuts pleads. But we’ve got a better idea: flip the record over and start the journey again.
Tracklist
A1 A Place To Stay
A2 Starless Summer Night
A3 The Riddle
A4 World And Not-World (Twisting The Night)
B1 A Place To Stay
B2 Starless Summer Night
B3 The Riddle
B4 World And Not-World (Twisting The Night)
Twisting The Night by Richard Papiercuts