8. Papercuts, You Can Have What You Want (‘Future Primitive’)

From the nod to Loveless of the opening track (not this one), this album is suffused with the sound of shoegaze, but in an indirect way, so that it’s still a singer-songwriter album at heart. ‘Future Primitive’ rides in on its drumbeats and its plaintive refrain (a little bit more unsubtle than most of the other songs), but the under- and over-exposed video shows the surrounding haze and glare, the aural and visual distortion of timeless monochrome. You Can Have What You Want is extraordinarily beautiful to listen to, and while there is a certain retro-pop feel to it, with the occasional organ and the paradoxically laid-back Spectorized sound, it’s not so strong as to overwhelm the record as an experience.