Dave Pajo, best known for his work with Slint and under the Papa M and Aerial M monikers, returns from the fiasco of the Billy Corgan-fuelled "Zwan" project to deliver his most sweetly melancholy and accomplished solo outing to date. First track "Oh No No" offers up all the clues you need - one man and a guitar, classic campfire strums, surrounded by a strange fuzz of gently modulated and modified percussive top-end that manages to give proceedings an other-worldly quality that dissolves almost before its begun. Beautiful stuff. The album has a folky fascination that at times wears "unfashionable" influences on its sleeve - The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel and so on, but Pajo's treatments and arrangements are never short of mesmerising - making this a delicately swoonsome and heartwarming listen, something to get lost to out in a park for summer. Gorgeous.
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Dave Pajo, best known for his work with Slint and under the Papa M and Aerial M monikers, returns from the fiasco of the Billy Corgan-fuelled "Zwan" project to deliver his most sweetly melancholy and accomplished solo outing to date. First track "Oh No No" offers up all the clues you need - one man and a guitar, classic campfire strums, surrounded by a strange fuzz of gently modulated and modified percussive top-end that manages to give proceedings an other-worldly quality that dissolves almost before its begun. Beautiful stuff. The album has a folky fascination that at times wears "unfashionable" influences on its sleeve - The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel and so on, but Pajo's treatments and arrangements are never short of mesmerising - making this a delicately swoonsome and heartwarming listen, something to get lost to out in a park for summer. Gorgeous.
Dave Pajo, best known for his work with Slint and under the Papa M and Aerial M monikers, returns from the fiasco of the Billy Corgan-fuelled "Zwan" project to deliver his most sweetly melancholy and accomplished solo outing to date. First track "Oh No No" offers up all the clues you need - one man and a guitar, classic campfire strums, surrounded by a strange fuzz of gently modulated and modified percussive top-end that manages to give proceedings an other-worldly quality that dissolves almost before its begun. Beautiful stuff. The album has a folky fascination that at times wears "unfashionable" influences on its sleeve - The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel and so on, but Pajo's treatments and arrangements are never short of mesmerising - making this a delicately swoonsome and heartwarming listen, something to get lost to out in a park for summer. Gorgeous.
Dave Pajo, best known for his work with Slint and under the Papa M and Aerial M monikers, returns from the fiasco of the Billy Corgan-fuelled "Zwan" project to deliver his most sweetly melancholy and accomplished solo outing to date. First track "Oh No No" offers up all the clues you need - one man and a guitar, classic campfire strums, surrounded by a strange fuzz of gently modulated and modified percussive top-end that manages to give proceedings an other-worldly quality that dissolves almost before its begun. Beautiful stuff. The album has a folky fascination that at times wears "unfashionable" influences on its sleeve - The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel and so on, but Pajo's treatments and arrangements are never short of mesmerising - making this a delicately swoonsome and heartwarming listen, something to get lost to out in a park for summer. Gorgeous.