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