The Paper Jets – Everyday Forever Album Art

You Don’t Know Jersey has named Everyday Forever one of its top NJ albums of 2018 saying “From the brilliant danceable power pop of “Say I Can” to the slow burn of “My Gemini Heart” to the punk infused “Go On Go On” the album is the band at the top of their game.”

Read the full article here.

“…If indeed The Paper Jets have played their last show then guitarist/vocalist Brian Erickson, lead guitarist Mike Virok, bassist Scott Austin Miller and drummer Frank Lettieri Jr. can take comfort knowing that they not only played one of their best shows ever but did so on the same day they released one of the best albums of 2018.”

Read the full review here.

100% of the proceeds will benefit the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Stream and download the entire 58-song compilation here.

Since then, songs continued to be shuffled in and out of the set list but last night, the band decided to put it all in order! Familiar songs like “Say I Can,” and “Charlie It Can’t Be Done,” sat alongside newcomers “Chatter,” and “My Gemini Heart,” – ten in all – to form what promises to be the band’s best record yet!

Set List (also – surprise! – new album track-list subtly revealed):

1. CC It’s Not Me

2. Wonderful Love

3. Say I Can

4. Up to You

5. Go On Go On

6. Charlie It Can’t Be Done

7. Kiss Arcana

8. Chatter

9. Watch My Fingers

10. My Gemini Heart

Erickson (left) and Cook (right) post after a show in Belmar, NJ. Photo by Alice Magdziak.

For the past six months, Brian Erickson has been moonlighting as the bassist in Jersey shore songwriter Matt Cook’s piano rock trio. And it has now been announced that he’ll be appearing as a backing vocalist on his next album, Girasole.

As The Paper Jets continue chipping away at their forthcoming full-length, Erickson has become a surprisingly-busy sideman. In addition to touring with Cook, he has played with New Brunswick punk rock quintet Finding Feebas (and is rumored to be producing their debut EP), and has recently appeared on stage with Jesse Elliot whose album he produced in 2015.

Girasole is due out by December 2017. In the meantime, check out some of Matt Cook’s previous records via Bandcamp.

The album was tracked at Pachyderm Studios in Minnesota (where legendary LP’s like Rid of Me, In Utero, and Hollywood Town Hall were recorded) and mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering.

Track-Listing:

1. Analog Mind Bender

2. Aurora

3. Mustang

4. Heavy

5. Little Angel

6. My Dear

7. The Circus

8. Death Vibrations

9. Gamma Ray

10. Porcelain

11. The Shore

12. Ghosts

Dust of Days are:

Frank Lettieri Jr – vocals, drums, producer, engineer, mixing

James Harold McGee – lead guitar, piano

Mark Lettieri – guitar, producer

Scott Silvester – bass

Michael James Virok – guitar

Dana Pizzuti Marchioni – violin (on “The Shore”)

Recorded and Engineered by Nick Tveitbakk at Pachyderm Recording Studios, Cannon Falls, Minnesota

Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering, Portland, Maine

Photos by Chelsea Conte, Mike Virok, and Mark Lettieri

Art Design by Frank Lettieri Jr.

He talks about the origin of album’s attention-grabbing title, the inspiration behind the songwriting and how he changed up his usual process, as well as working at Pachyderm, the world-class studio where Nirvana recorded their In Utero album.

Along the way, Frank reveals certain aspects of “love and suffering” that bore some of the record’s most poignant moments as well as future plans (including the possibility of the first Dust of Days east coast tour dates in nearly five years)! READ THE INTERVIEW HERE!

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Featuring the lead single, “Uh,” early reviews are quite positive with 2Guys1Review calling it “astonishing,” and praising Lettieri’s tight, even-handed production.

You can download the new EP via Meeko Brando’s Bandcamp page on a name-your-price basis.

The album was recorded at Pachyderm Studios (where In Utero was famously captured) and mastered by Bob Ludwig. It features former touring Paper Jet Jim McGee (who spent the first half of 2012 with the band) and will be released by frequent collaborator Jeff Fiedler’s Aqualung Records on Friday August 4, 2017.