John Paul Davis
My name is John Paul Davis. I write poetry, build things on the web with code, make music and visual art. I love making things. This website is mostly about the things I make and do.
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I Have An Announcement -
Pushing recording technology of the day to its limits, Brian Wilson crafts lush, genre-busting, harmonically complex singalongable tunes exploring spirituality, love & coming of age.
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A Parade -
The trio deliver a collection of finely-crafted, melodically excellent tunes built on catchy grooves & a fascination with atmosphere & texture
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A Scatter of Light -
Sting assembles a band of young lions from the jazz world, musically elevating these sophisticated tunes about outsiders, outcasts, the scorned, the working class.
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A New Lifetime -
Blending traditional Irish music with contemporary song structures, the band explore love, loss, & sorrow with a warm, ethereal melancholy that's balanced by catchy solos & lush vocals.
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Imperatives -
Tenderly-crafted tunes with hooky melodies, plainspoken poetry, shimmering guitars, driving bass lines that lay bare the emotional peaks & valleys in ordinary human love
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A Little Borrowed Light -
On his first solo album Yorke sings hauntingly about climate change, political anger, & a sense of helplessness over skittery, angular beats, fizzy synths & gorgeous piano & guitar.
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Winter's Final Message -
Grappling with loss & reckoning with healing, the band digs deep lyrically while pushing themselves sonically to try new approaches, yielding an album that uplifts & soars as it aches.
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Days Before the Green -
The band switch instruments & avoid writing in their comfort zone, resulting in an album that sounds like nothing they'd done to that point, while still sounding like only R.E.M. could.
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Long-Term Strategies -
"Repair is the dream of the broken thing," David Berman plaintively sings, a summary of not just this gorgeous album of outsider folk-rock but also of the band's rickety aesthetic.
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Everything Means More Than One Thing -
Colin Meloy's imaginative, evocative songwriting is matched in scope & execution by the band's tight, fierce & masterful playing in this collection of tales of love & war.
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Trees Wear Less When It's Cold Out -
Smith dives for musical transcendence & surfaces with a set of rousing rockers as she examines the ambiguities & demands of relationships - with other people & with music itself.
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Self-Explanatory -
The band step outside their sonic comfort zone with dynamics, melody & gorgeous layers whose daring match the lyrics' fearless exploration of addiction & recovery.
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Everything You Can See Is In Motion
