Butterflies of Love (slight return)

After the super soaraway success of Butterflies of Love week (four downloads), here's both sides of their second single. Long out of print, so I've broken my self-imposed restriction on posting whole records here. If you feel consumed by guilt at downloading it, consider buying the new Fortuna Pop compilation here, a snip at $somethingquitecheap.

I just bought a new USB turntable, so more vinyl in the weeks to come, probably. Excuse the crackles.

The Butterflies of Love - It's Different Now
The Butterflies of Love - I'll Never Be Long Gone

Butterflies of Love week! part three

Two from The New Patient, one from Famous Problems, both available from Fortuna Pop.

The Butterflies of Love - Dream Driver
The Butterflies of Love - She's an Heiress
The Butterflies of Love - Ghostride

Butterflies of Love week! part two

Two singers, Jeffrey and Daniel Greene (unrelated). Mark Mulcahy of Miracle Legion contributes the occasional spectral backing ooooh, but not live, sadly. Not in Blighty, anyway.

Jeffrey is the tall, gangly, mumbly-sounding one, prone to lengthy disquisitions between songs ('ladies and gentlemen the supersonic Butterflies are about to perform another smash' etc etc) which drag on to disquieting effect.

Daniel speaks less and is the leader of the band, as Jeffrey frequently reminds us. He's the vaguely tremulous-sounding one, and looks a bit like a young Jack Nicholson.

There are other members of the band, some with hats, some without. Their keyboard player always looks uncertain and starey-eyed, as if recently released from some form of confinement. Perhaps New Haven does that to you.

If their debut album had come out in 1988 (when wry young men with reverb pedals roamed the alluvial plains) rather than 1999, they would have straddled the world of indie like a gangly colossus. As it is, they visit the UK every few years to play for the benefit of various Track and Field bods in murky backrooms. You can buy How to Know the Butterflies of Love on Amazon for a derisory sum, and you certainly should, because it's great.

The Butterflies of Love - Mt. Everest
The Butterflies of Love - Wild
The Butterflies of Love - Amethyst

The Butterflies of Love week! part one

One of my favourite bands, for reasons I'll go on to discuss, or perhaps not. American's Newest Hit Makers was their first album. They didn't advertise its existence for a while, perhaps understandably. There's a lot of what musicologists might term 'arsing about'. There's some good stuff, too. It's kind of surprising to hear Jeffrey Greene singing out so much, if you're familiar with the honeyed mumble he adopted on later records.

The Butterflies of Love - I Try Too Hard
The Butterflies of Love - I Read Her Diary
The Butterflies of Love - Walking the Dog