Paper Anniversary

Sometimes the best sounds come from broken things - toys or banjos or cheap electronics - or everyday noises we tend to take for granted, like traffic and rain and purring cats and the squeak of boots on snow at 30 degrees. After listening to an appeal from a convicted bank robber, Paper Anniversary sits down to dinner with some small town bikers at the local hotel, interprets paper-loading instructions for a fax machine, pauses to read a poem, and starts driving. As the Vancouver Courier said, ... The disc is filled with perfect miniatures as finely wrought and layered as a New Yorker short story, with an inviting first line and an eye for detail... A perfect record in nearly every respect, Paper Anniversary is easily one of the best albums of the year.