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  • Summary: This is the fourth album for the indie project led by Jason Robert Quever.
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  1. Mar 4, 2011
    82
    Papercuts' fourth album and Sub Pop debut, Fading Parade, is nothing like this overwrought, overwhelming assault on the senses.
  2. Uncut
    Mar 29, 2011
    80
    Sure, at times, they sound like Gene, but on tracks like "Do You Really Wanna Know" they are nigh-on perfect: Jangly and breathless, with traces of The Smiths but a softer edge. [Apr 2011, p.89]
  3. Mojo
    Apr 6, 2011
    80
    Its mood affecting. its melodies haunting, Fading Parade is spellbinding. [Apr 2011, p.101]
  4. Mar 15, 2011
    60
    Considering the way Fading Parade wraps up, you just get the feeling that Papercuts could go a little deeper when Quever gives his songs a little more room to breathe.
  5. Q Magazine
    Apr 6, 2011
    60
    The result is a more direct sound. [Apr 2011, p.106]
  6. Under The Radar
    Mar 22, 2011
    60
    It's the act's best and nost fully realized LP to date. [Feb 2011, p.66]
  7. Mar 4, 2011
    58
    On Fading Parade, Papercuts (a.k.a. Jason Robert Quever) hasn't changed too much, sticking with the fuzzed, hazy, '60s dream-pop that's the musical equivalent of a shoebox filled with old Polaroids.

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