Musical Accumalations
Herein find the various musics that this band have committed to disc. You may listen to them. You may cross our palm with gold and purchase them. Or you may glare at the front cover images for as long as you wish. The end of the page contains various mp3s that have leaked onto the Internet at one time or another.
Single Play
The Duke
1. The Duke
2. Algiers
3. The Duke (Talk Less, Say More Remix)
Our first properly sanctioned single, brought to you by the persons and animals at Wanderlust Records. Tracks that give a military kicking to the jams via sharp riffola are followed by those that explore metallic nordic existentialism via tribal drumming. And an excellent remix of the former is there to boot. Set forth on March 5th, in the Year of Our Lord Two-Thousand and Seven.
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Sounding like Joy Division gone Electroclash, ‘The Duke’ is a stunning little number, which grabs you from the off and refuses to loosen it’s grip until you dance like the devil himself. We haven’t heard such a brilliantly choreographed dark rock/dance track since Red Organ Serpent Sound released ‘In Search Of Orgasmuz’ - and you all remember how good that was, don’t you? Let’s just hope The Butterfly don’t turn back into a caterpillar anytime soon.
8/10 FURIOUS, Trash-hits.com
This band are fucking good….by Christ, I’d run round the world naked to spread the word about just how good they are…Postmodernism’s done some terrible things…but The Butterfly are living proof that it can be dead good.
Dave Bell, Good Name For A Racehorse Records
Leeds quartet The Butterfly have been defying live audiences to know quite what to make of them for some time now, and this debut release does little to resolve the issue - although one suspects that’s half the point. At times ‘The Duke’ exhibits the nuanced bombast of cerebral post-metal exemplars like Faith No More and Tool, while at others it is the epitome of literate post-punk restraint; front man Bulletproof channelling the gothic melodrama of Ian Curtis and Guy McKnight, or Mike Patton’s poetic muscularity, seemingly as the mood takes him. The song’s s hampered by murky percussion which somewhat masks the The Butterfly’s sure grasp on dynamics, but then again it’s difficult to imagine a band who blend disparate influences in such a fresh, uncompromising and ever-so-slightly troubling fashion being particularly at home on the fly-by-night singles market anyway.
Sandman Magazine
With such anthemic powers this is a fantastic single, punchy offbeat hi-hat rhythms dominating the superb mix. Vocals reminisce of Franz’s first single but yield stronger and more confident results with powerful wailing backing vox. This song sounds like a giant megalomaniac robot crunching upon gasoline crisp appetisers, before its stuffed-juggernaut and trailer main meal, well, a well timed perfectly oiled giant robot…B-side Side Algiers is crazier, looser, and probably more what this band is about live. Chant-worthy “I wouldn’t feel a thing” is bound to be a huge crowd pleaser. Also includes a massive remix tune by the incredible Talk Less Say More.
4/5, Blogger Frog
an edgy bass infused guitar and drum hard-hitter. Its rocking sound and uncharted vocal gives the feel of a Talking Heads like style…punches into your ears with a funky and dramatic entrance with an exit similar but with any luck this won’t be the last you hear of this surprising and energetic band.
FRINKMusic.com
Impressive mash up of Cramps malevolence and White Zombie’s electro-groove-ilicious metal…
Subba-Cultcha
Extended Play
More Power, More Power
1. Algiers
2. The Duke
3. Like A Thief In The Night
5. Perhaps (You’ll Find Someone)
The latest gift-offering from the aforementioned band. Discusses nihilism, The Duke, the inevitability of time and girls.
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Impatient Orchid
1. Priorities
2. Eros and Thanatos
3. The Art of Falling
4. Dispatches (from a de Clerambault’s patient)
Extended digressions into the perils of vanity, Taoism, the horrors of Sexual Obsession and pifling matters such as Love and Death. Released by GNFAR in the Year Of Our Lord 2006.
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There is enough urgency, passion and dynamic range to power a small town in America. Or a small country in Europe…The postmodern collage is breathtaking. And, damn it, it’s FUN without, for a moment, being a piss take. The band love all this stuff with a righteous vengeance…Top stuff.
8/10 Whisperin’ and Hollerin’
8/10, Drowned In Sound
The Butterfly really are a very good band. Bizarre. Possibly dangerously unhinged. But by my Greek Gods, they rock like a bunch of book reading, Mike Patton adoring bastards.
Sandman Magazine
my mind has been frazzled by a lurching journey through more styles than you could pigeon hole. Clearly there is a certain homage to Mike Patton/Faith No More when they were going through their ‘King for a Day…’ phase in the way the vocals are belted out in between searing guitar riffs. There is also an element of hammed up rock opera about ‘Impatient Orchid’ and how many bands could get away with Mariachi style brass without sounding a little bit pompous? I get the impression that The Butterfly do not take themselves too seriously, but equally they are not doing this for laughs either.
Tasty Fanzine
The Butterfly are inventive, mould breaking & fierce.
Plastic Ashtray
They can quite effortlessly jump from genre to genre, without out impacting on each of the songs flow and cohesiveness…a truly remarkable release that embraces several styles with amazing ease…so much going on…that the 15 minute running time flies past as you listen…I don’t know what the future holds for The Butterfly, I’m not even sure they do!. Whatever it is though, I can guarantee it will be weird, wonderful and extremely thrilling.
Boring Machines Disturb Sleep
Long Play
Care
1. Rex Vs.
2. Like A Thief In The Night
3. Boy In The Bubble
4. Here Is…
5. Phoebus Burns
6. Only Son
7. My Friend Surprise
8. Stargazers
9. Lines of Symmetry
10. Her Sister’s Mistakes
11. Yako Pyerst
12. Gom Geog Meogmy
13. Hand In The Fire
Lovingly produced by Uncle Jell’s own hand, this 2005 release encompasses everything The Butterfly had done up to this point and a few more songs to boot. Bewildered punters across the country parted with five pounds of their cash for this epic CD. And a few people reviewed it also.
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…not so much an album as an entire universe, put to music and crammed into 56 deafening, demanding, destructful minutes. …It’s a fantasy land where danger stalks every chord change, where the moon bleeds, forest fires burn, heroes fight through ungodly storms and theives rule the night - all while the music dips from the sound of a thousand ogre armies marching to the patter of a single dwarf’s feet within nano-seconds…when it hits…music simply doesn’t get much more rewarding. Album highlights ‘Only Son’ and ‘Rex Vs’ might be troublesome listening at first due to the formers suicide-note lyrics and the latters spacecraft-crashing noise but stick with them and they devolve into beautiful, almost timeless pieces of music. Similarly ‘Lines of Symmetry’ shows an ambition, a musical craft and a lyrical deftness most bands would give up backstage blowjobs for. It, like so much on ‘Care’ is elephantine. Truly, music for the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Colin Drury, Vibrations Magazine March 2006
The sheer range of noise and shifts in tone is what makes the band so very interesting. I can’t remember the last time I sat up and actually paid attention to the detail involved here. This is just not what you normally get from a commercially successful band…There are such sweet delicate moments of reflection and understatement going on here, and the rush of energy involved in the band’s pick ups are just as thought through and well executed, as opposed to so many other bands just thrashing out loud moments for the sake of it. This is a band that can understand the word composition.
Steven Hurst, Glasswerk Leeds
the biggest single achievement of this disc is proving beyond all doubt that it is still possible to do something genuinely new and interesting with the rock genre and still craft a perfectly accessible record. […] there is an endearing petulance about the way that The Butterfly plunder almost every genre and musical sub-culture imaginable whist simultaneously sticking its fingers up to them by mashing them together with maximum disrespect.[…] the music that is here is really rather excellent with barely a repeated idea throughout its entirety.
Rob Paul Chapman, Leedsmusicscene.net
MP3 Releases
In early 2004 tracks made their way onto the information super highway. They might still exist under some Soulseek rock somewhere. In 2005 some live tracks also did the rounds…
Ocean Tongues
Bullet Proof hates this song. But others do enjoy it - it’s the webmaster’s favourite songs. The string arrangement is well weapon and Theo sings lead vocals and everything.
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The Butterfly Medley
Bulletproof and Theo get quite brilliant with a medley of some of the hits in a lounge style. This. Is. Great.
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I Wanna Be Like You - Live
The Butterfly perform the Disney classic of the same name. I am tired of monkeying around.
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Eros and Thanatos - Bright Young Things Version
An alternative version of this song, recorded with the studio time that was the prize for Leeds Council’s Bright Young Things 2006 competition. Includes the infamous scream introduction.
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