James William Roy: AEM015 James William Roy
Album Description
One listen to “Paper Valentine” is about all it takes to make it your favorite song of the month, an a-side in the most quintessential sense. Not to harp on this allusion, but the hook hits you in the same place as a vintage Sugar track, a pop gloss tossed over punk-honed workmanship, the tastefulness of the vocal track that never sounds stretched but nevertheless manages to nail every nuance.
B-side “Rush Delivery” marries some wobbly guitar texture to the kind of blissfully shambolic instrumental meltdowns you might find in Crooked Rain-era pavement, the chord changes lurching like an inebriated college student towards whatever mystic revelation happens to hang out on the other side of the quad. It’s a tremendous mess, executed with the electric energy of live band on the verge of shorting out the back of some shithole bar.
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