LA's Jerry Paper's third album Free Time immediately served up strong personal reminders of other things for me. It sounds like an LA album in terms of conjuring up images of swimming pools, cocktails with fruit on a stick protruding from the glass and bright Hawaian shirts and shades.
It definitely sounds like you're under a hot sun.If it were a film it would be Robert Altman's Chandler early Seventies Chandler pastiche The Long Goodbye.
As for the music, other associations were triggered. There's something of Beck's clever clever approach, Steely Dan too, but also reminders of the Stiff Records roster of the late Seventies and the likes of The Tyde. Well written, wry vignettes, all knowing winks and wry smiles.
Good songs anyhow though I wasn't always drawn in because Paper doesn't always seem to care enough for you to care either. Still, a crafted and highly competent album all told.
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