ARTiST: The Butterflies Of Love
TiTLE: Famous Problems
LABEL: Fortuna Pop!
GENRE: Indie
TiME: 35:37 min
SiZE: 48,6 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Feb-07-2007
RELEASE DATE: Feb-05-2007
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
01. Take Action 02:35
02. Act Deranged 02:06
03. In A Blizzard In A Lighthouse 03:09
04. No Moon No Sun No Stars 02:38
05. Lies Will Sound Like The Truth 02:20
06. Sunshine 01:44
07. Conquer Every Woe 02:23
08. All Of A Sudden 01:45
09. Ghostride 03:26
10. Orbit Around You 02:54
11. Know My Sign 03:00
12. Smite The White Eagle 03:11
13. Once A Year 04:26
Release Notes:
Now is the time to know the Butterflies of Love
The BoL arrived in my consciousness around the same
time as Beulah and Monroe Mustang, their debut æHow
to knowàÆ following up on the promise of the
stand-out single æRob a BankÆ, their second record
just plain disappeared. They are back now with Mark
Mulcahy helping out. How to describe the BoL? I
think they are flat out a pop band with tinges of
psychedelia and even when they stray in new weird
distortion æNo Moon No Sun No StarsÆ though the
guitars may be howling like they are caught in bear
traps and the bass fuzzing like a bad headache, the
chorus is still as sweet as the first bite of an
apple. Bands I hear in this record: The Seeds, Carzy
Horse, Bedhead, The Cure, Meat Puppets - it is the
perfect soundtrack to a Jim Dodge novel.
Something retro, something hippy, experimentation,
maybe drugs, the lyrics, the warm organ tones...
æGhostrideÆ seems to swoop around Californian
canyons, a bird on the wing blissfully soaring and
whilst they are up there they launch into the
smouldering æSmite the White EagleÆ which is like
Billy Talbot playing alongside the Kirkwood brothers
after a peyote party. This is psychedelia baked by
the sun, full of heat, a mellow trip.
Not so much freak folk as freak brothers, these
butterflies are at home taking nectar from some
strange plants resulting in something that is
contemporary anachronistic, out-there and yet
approachable.