Summary from 5 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Papa M's catalog across 7 albums from 5 opinions, with an overall average of 7.4/10. The top-rated Papa M album is Whatever, Mortal (2001) with a 8.6/10 average from 1 rating, followed by Hole of Burning Alms and A Broke Moon Rises. The discography on Wavelength spans 2001 to 2024.
Whatever, Mortal
“Contrary to popular wisdom, you can teach an old dog new tricks. The real problem arises when the old dog becomes so wrapped up in his new tricks that he forgets all the old ones. The miserable thing winds up spending so much time showing off its incredible new talent that it forgets to do the simple things-- like eat out of a bowl and not shit on the rug. Hopeless and frustrated, you find yoursel”
One - EP
“In his 22nd year of music-making, Dave Pajo rules your whole family, holmes. He can do li'l wrong: the man had Drag City release his own farthing (in their catalog as DC170-COIN). What instrument can this Robotussin messiah not play? What ice-warm and bed-cold tone can he not engineer? What album bears his prints that isn't wondrous? (Okay, besides the Zwan one?) Listening to Pajo-related projects”
Three - EP
“Patient: I know I got one of them disorders. I'm stalking Dave Pajo, the man behind Papa M, which is not the name of a failed late-80s reggae crossover, but the name of a contemporary math-rocker-cum-quasironic-balladeer. I read Pajo's Livejournal. I print out the pictures. I buy a new ink cartridge when my printouts tint all funny. I've labored to create extensive analyses of his resume and his d”
Hole of Burning Alms
“Pinpointing Pajo has always been my problem. When explaining your musical lineage to quasi-compelled pals, I'm tempted to scribble flowcharts and draw convoluted figures on oversized sheets of graph paper: thick, black lines are scrawled from Slint to Tortoise to Zwan; little blue streaks shoot from M to M Is the Thirteenth Letter to Ariel M to Papa M; yellow stripes stretch from Mogwai to Matmos;”
A Broke Moon Rises
“David Pajo is a giant of the modern American underground, and not only because he was the guitarist in Kentucky post-rock forefathers Slint. He has also recorded and/or toured with Will Oldham, Royal Trux and Tortoise, as well as Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Zwan, among others. In early 2015, he survived a well-publicized suicide attempt, thanks to the quick response of emergency workers. The ne”
Highway Songs
“David Pajo’s latest album as Papa M is wistful and poignant, like all his work. But it ultimately feels hopeful rather than weary, upbeat rather than defeated.”
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