Taste Test: Paper Towns pleads with ‘Emily’
New folk collective look back at a forlorn love with a searing new ballad.
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The human heart might as well be an origami-molded swan, the way its edges dance in the light and carry such fragility within its folds. You observe it, shifting the white shell delicately from palm to palm, and you bask in its silhouette that plays with perspective in an almost child-like way. Jaimi Faulkner and Jan Schroeder come together as the folk collective called Paper Towns, alongside members of Angus and Julia Stones’ band Causes, and their new single “Emily,” a heart-rending strip of lonesome, swirls inside a time capsule of love long-gone and fed to the dust. “Don’t go breaking your heart over me,” sings Faulkner as a love letter to his former self and his cast-off suitor, who just might have finally picked up the shards of her heart. The frayed tears sear into the skin, yet therein emerges a beauty that could not have been fully understand or even known before this moment. Faulkner’s restlessness is dragged through the mud, and you, as the mere spectator, can certainly feel it, too.
“Emily” is the second official release from the band’s new album, out sometime this year.
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