(Just Heard) PAWS announces fall tour, shares Elliott Smith cover

For the past year, Glasgow trio PAWS have been touring extensively to promote their 2012 debut Cokefloat! With a new LP on the horizon, one third of PAWS, Phillip Taylor, has released a solo acoustic cover of Elliott Smith's always dirgey "Needle In The Hay." Taylor foregoes PAWS' usual sheen of fuzz, instead rendering a fairly similar interpretation of Smith's original. Taylor's singing, however, leans more towards his usual pop-punk squall as opposed to Smith's mo...

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