Ben Weaver is 26 and Paper Sky is his fifth album, set for release on May 1st 2007. The restless, prolific songwriter has been praised as “riveting” (No Depression) and “a startling talent” (Time Out London) that “tells amazing stories” (Utne Reader) in his evocative songs populated by birds, phone booths, lovers, and plastic bags stuck in trees.Paper Sky will be released via Weaver’s own Fugawee Bird Records, which the songwriter runs out of a Casket Company warehouse in Minneapolis. On Pa...
Ben Weaver is 26 and Paper Sky is his fifth album, set for release on May 1st 2007. The restless, prolific songwriter has been praised as “riveting” (No Depression) and “a startling talent” (Time Out London) that “tells amazing stories” (Utne Reader) in his evocative songs populated by birds, phone booths, lovers, and plastic bags stuck in trees.Paper Sky will be released via Weaver’s own Fugawee Bird Records, which the songwriter runs out of a Casket Company warehouse in Minneapolis. On Paper Sky, Weaver sets off to explore “urban and industrial themes that I hadn’t touched before.” With the aid of producer Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Califone, etc.), Weaver employs crinkly synthesizer textures and other mutilated sounds in the service of his haunting, hushed melodies.
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