Paper Tapes and the off kilter midnight dream pop of "You And I" (Official Video)

 

"it's not too late to try to change"

Listening to "You And I" by Paper Tapes, the gliding pop project by Cyril Angleys (Brace! Brace!, Holin' Banana), it feels like a calming narcotic or edgy psychedelic dream. The transient bending notes pushed through the barbiturate drip of 70's affections feel a bit like an amalgam of Porches, Nilsson, MGMT reflected through a fun house mirror. The kind of forward backward psyche guitar progressions, sly bass moves, glam drop lead licks and Angleys' askew hushed vocal aesthetic feels at once dreamily pop but so off kilter too as to feel a bit dangerous too. When the melodious flute drop happens I am smiling broadly. 

In the end, "You And I" feels like a colliding pastiche of old and new, of foreign and domestic. Agleys as Papet Tapes is a native of Lyon, France and living in Paris. "You And I" is from Paper Tapes' "Homecoming" out on Geographie Records. Wonderful. 

-Robb Donker Curtius 

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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:


GPSs flicker, spirits emancipate themselves from any final destination… PAPER TAPES’ first EP « Homecoming » dropped October 9th. on Geographie.


Native of Lyon (FR), living in Paris and a member of the band Brace ! Brace ! (Howlin’ Banana), Cyril Angleys delivers, under the pseudo PAPER TAPES, an adventurous and immediate pop.


Influenced by the 70s film score, the outsiders that became heroes like Stereolab and Air, the psyched pop from Todd Rundgren or the R’n’B from the first The Neptunes’ albums, he assumes boldly but with finesse his carelessness of time and genres.


It is while composing with Brace! Brace! That he feels the need, this desire to start a solo project. Drum machines, synthesizers… he starts writing and experimenting from home, in his flat during the 2018 summer.


With « Homecoming », co-produced by Barth Bouveret (Brace ! Brace!, Good Morning TV, Marble Arch) PAPER TAPES offers us a first magnetic and luminous EP. Five little hits nestled between some modern soft rock and emancipated pop, to listen to while traveling or at home… even though we know travels always start home.

« You And I » taken from Paper Tapes’ EP « Homecoming» out now on Geographie Records Stream : https://geographie.bandcamp.com/album... 

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