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Fading Parade

Papercuts

Fading Parade

Fifth studio album of indie pop from San Francisco-based songwriter and producer Jason Quever

ADM rating[?]

6.9

Label
Sub Pop
UK Release date
28/02/2011
US Release date
01/03/2011
  1. 9.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    An excellent, excellent listen
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  2. 8.8 |   Beats Per Minute

    Fading Parade is not only the best album Quever has recorded, but it is one of the better albums of this young year
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  3. 8.0 |   AU Review

    Filled with beautiful moments of creeping, hushed melancholy... Simply stunning
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  4. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Fading Parade is spellbinding. Print edition only

  5. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    The Papercuts project seems destined for bigger and brighter stages
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  6. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    Across 10 songs and less than 40 minutes, Quever’s achievement is substantial: valid, vivid and needle-point sharp indie-pop
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  7. 8.0 |   Uncut

    It impresses throughout. Print edition only

  8. 8.0 |   Bowlegs

    The album could have easily fallen into the trap of over-familiarity. What keeps it remarkably fresh are the endless melodies
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  9. 7.5 |   Prefix

    As a collection of whispery bummer rock, Fading Parade respects the tradition set by its predecessors
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  10. 7.4 |   Pitchfork

    Although everything about their surfaces could be considered soft, all of these songs boast remarkably strong bone structure
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  11. 7.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    A record that really feels like an ‘arrival’ in terms of perfecting a particular sound
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  12. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    All in all, the blanket of dazed-and-confused fuzz becomes too overcast and even overbearing, making you numb to the heartaches and pains of Quever’s forlorn love songs, rather than feeling them
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  13. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    An acutely knowing blend of 1960s wall of sound atmospherics and 1980s twee indie
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  14. 6.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Definitely one to keep handy for a sleepy August afternoon
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  15. 6.0 |   The Quietus

    Though this album lacks a degree of soul, its polish makes it a pleasant enough spin
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  16. 6.0 |   No Ripcord

    Succeeds in how it furthers more solidly grounded songwriting in favor of simply extending minor ideas
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  17. 6.0 |   Q

    Quever does this sort of thing with such grace. Print edition only

  18. 5.8 |   A.V. Club

    A less exciting listen than its peers
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  19. 5.0 |   NME

    Print edition only

  20. 5.0 |   DIY

    By the time it's over, all the listener is left with is vague recollections and fragments
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