Our Song of the Day is Lawless, the 2nd single from Paper Beat Scissors‘ sophomore album Go On. A meditation on the ways we can delude ourselves and others without realising, the song was engineered by Dean Nelson (Beck, Bat for Lashes) and Diego Medina in London, Ontario and a cavernous former guild lodge on the South Shore of Nova Scotia. The song breezes slowly in on Tim Crabtree’s languorous vocals, and ethereal pedal steel by Michael Feuerstack (Bell Orchestre) before cataclysmic drums (Nathan Doucet – Crosss) rip the peace apart and mournful orchestral swells (Gregory Burton, and Pietro Amato – the Luyas) push at the edges and the tension subsides, leaving the song to die away on a wave of stark yet warm keyboards and tremolo violins.
Watch the video below which was directed and shot by Derek Branscombe, starring Maxine Segalowitz and Julia Laperrière, produced by Meryam Joobeur.
Go On will be released August 14th on ferryhouse/Warner (Germany, Switzerland, Austria) and Forward Music Group (Canada/International)
Pre-Order it via Bandcamp
European Tour Dates
October 01 – Graz, AU: Orpheum
October 02 – Weyer, AU: Bertholdsaal
October 03 – Vienna, AU: Waves Festival
October 07 – Cologne, DE: Tsunami
October 08 – Hamburg, DE: Knust
October 09 – Duisburg, DE: Steinbruch
October 11 – Münster, DE: Fachwerk Gievenbeck
October 12 – Berlin, DE: Monarch
October 13 – Prague, CZ: venue TBA
October 14 – Mainz, DE: Schon Schön
October 15 – Freiburg, DE: Swamp
October 16 – Erfurt, DE: Franz Mehlhose
October 17 – Switzerland, TBA
October 18 – Switzerland, TBA
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Photo Credit Nick Wilkinson