Taste Test: Paper Towns recall the burning ache of ‘Amsterdam’
The folk band wiggle in a heartbreak with the crackling embers of a new song.
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It doesn’t really matter where you breakup. Whether it’s within a towering cityscape or out in the wide stretches of farmland, you’re forever reminded of love once lost. Folk collective Paper Towns ⏤ Jaimi Faulkner, Jan Schröeder and Daniel Farrugia ⏤ medicate their injury-worn limbs with the tremendous realization that they’ll never actually get away from the heartbreak. A solvent of melancholy, “Amsterdam” hinges on such a reality, and Faulkner’s voice both plays directly to other such forlorn travelers and advises them that the time it’ll take to heal may be the only way out. “Songs unfolding in the cool night air / Bathing in the headlights, bare feet in that summer dress,” he sings. He lingers on such specific imagery to confront, once and for all, everything the relationship was or ever could be.
“Amsterdam” follows two other band releases this year, “Emily” and “Wildflower.”
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