Life Among the Savages

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AlbumMay 06 / 20149 songs, 36m 56s
Indie Pop Dream Pop
Noteable
6.7 / 10

Jason Quever has been writing and recording as Papercuts for well over a decade at this point, fleshing out his take on the last 50 years of oft-dreamy, pillow-soft pop-rock. His new full-length places a spotlight on his skills as a producer and arranger playing with several new variations on his warm, woodsy music.

7.0 / 10

It seems like a lifetime ago that Papercuts' Can’t Go Back received a Best New Music tag from Pitchfork. Hell, it seems…

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One of the main pleasures of listening to a Papercuts album is the care and feeding the band's chief architect, Jason Quever, puts into the arrangements.

7.5 / 10

Given the hardships of Jason Quever's story so far, Life Among the Savages feels like an appropriate title for Papercuts' fourth studio recording.

8 / 10

7.0 / 10

Review of Papercuts' Life Among Savages, the project of Jason Quever comes out on May 12 via Easy Sound. The first single is "Stil Knocking at the Door"

60 %

Striking fifth album from San Francisco’s master of the downbeat. By Kieron Tyler