Paper smiles.

Honest to God, if you’re an independent band releasing an album, please keep a few things in mind:

1) Please have a somewhat distinctive name that I, as a listener, can Google and have a reasonable number of related results.

2) If your music is purposefully minimal in regards to lyrics, please have titles that ease said Google search.

3) If you fail to comply with both suggestions, try to suck, because even I can’t come up with enough adjectives and metaphors to describe how great your album is.

(I’m looking at you, Paper. You with you album, “As As” and its nondescript song names. Do you know how long it took me to track you down?)

Aaron and Adrienne Snow (of Landing) released their first album as Paper last year, released on States Rights Records, somehow flying past our collective radar. It’s a beautiful collection of songs, with whispered, barely there vocals and dreamy melodies that remind us of CAN and/or latter day Eno.

Really, we’d write more, but the search for intelligence on the band wiped us out. You can buy “As As” from States Rights’ Web site while I retreat and compose myself.

Featured Song: “Boy” by Paper

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Featured Song: “Underground” by Paper

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