(Starving Kids Records)

A discussion in time and dairy

Music can be much like fine cheese. Both can either spoil or grow tastier over time, and, like a vintage wine brings out depth and flavour in cheese, so can a good mixer bring out these qualities in a band. In this scenario, native post-everything musicians The Paper And The Plane are the cheese and Ed Rose (Coalesce, Benton Falls, Appleseed Cast, Get Up Kids) is that wine which brings out the goodness on this perfectly aged EP.

In what can only be seen as a process of maturation, the band have put the heavier, abrasive end of their sound on the backburner for most of this record, instead focusing on their uncanny song-crafting ability to meld melody and emotion into indie-rock gems. This focus, helped along marvellously by the aforementioned Mr Rose, has ensured that all five songs on this release bear the polish and sheen of a band twice their age.

A Year, Two Months, Sixteen Days And Counting is the finite proof to their ever so rare critics, that The Paper And The Plane write great songs, like really great songs, which channel a whole swathe of influences such as Mineral, Sparta, Engine Down and even at times, the hallowed Interpol, whilst still retaining an originality which warrants a second listen or in this case, about a thousand. 

PATRICK PERRIER

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