Papercuts – “Can’t Go Back” – [Gnomonsong]

humana   8/1/2009   12-inch, A Library

Jason Robert Quever pens some fine pop songs dealing with subjects such as the transition from lover (?) to employee (1), nostalgic questions about whether you can wait all summer long (3), wishing you could hold onto people (7), how things and people become ???just another thing to dust??? (8). The overall vibe is mellow and poppy, with a delightful foray into a honky-tonk treatment of love taking a wrong turn (5). Pretty and cute and appealing all around.