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01. BUTTERFLY CHILD - Blind Me So I May See
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02. BUTTERFLY CHILD - Still Learning to Crawl
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03. BUTTERFLY CHILD - Playfair Steps
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04. BUTTERFLY CHILD - Our Delays
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05. BUTTERFLY CHILD - No Longer Living in Your Shadow
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06. BUTTERFLY CHILD - Sheets of Whitewashed Sun
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07. BUTTERFLY CHILD - A Shot in the Dark
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08. BUTTERFLY CHILD - Night Music
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09. BUTTERFLY CHILD - Holding On
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10. BUTTERFLY CHILD - The Only Sound
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11. BUTTERFLY CHILD - Futures
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12. BUTTERFLY CHILD - Lost in These Machines
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13. BUTTERFLY CHILD - Beauty #2
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ARTIST
BUTTERFLY CHILD
TITLE
Futures
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
DELL''ORSO RECORDS
CATALOG #
EDDA 037LP
EDDA 037LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
1/22/2016
LP version. Anyone with affection for treasure of a particularly luminous dream-pop vintage will know about
Joe Cassidy
and his alias
Butterfly Child
. Having recorded three albums and a handful of EPs in the '90s, Cassidy returned in 2012 with the
No Longer Living In Your Shadow
7". Now, the first Butterfly Child album since 1998 is here.
Futures
is a radiant 54-minute journey invested with Cassidy's usual melodic richness -- both musical and vocal -- and a more widescreen production, though the album was recorded at Cassidy's LA home. Sonically, the album lives somewhere between
The Beach Boys
and dream pop, but with a much more direct emotional impact, between bliss and melancholy. It combines new songs with previously unreleased older material, reaching as far back as Cassidy's very first demos as a teenager. The lush, sun-dappled climes of LA can be felt in the expansive folds and grooves of
Futures
, both on the softer, heartache-y side and on pop-centric songs such as "A Shot in the Dark" and "Holding On." "Holding On" was inspired by a string loop that
Guy Sirman
of Dell'Orso Records sent to Cassidy, which reminded him of
Dionne Warwick
, though the eventual track was inspired by
Jimmy Webb
and
Glen Campbell
. This being LA, Cassidy could call on his pals
Justin
,
James
, and
Christiaan
, Webb's three sons, to add backing vocals, while Campbell's son
Cal
plays guitar and percussion. The track also features drummer
Matt Walker
(also on "A Shot in the Dark") and keyboardist
Brian Liesegang
. Other
Futures
guests are
Ryan J Rapsys
of
Euphone
(drums),
Pendle Poucher
(a Butterfly Child accomplice back in the '90s, on "glitch" guitar),
Merritt Lear
(another Butterfly Child accomplice, and
Assassins
co-singer, on violin and backing vocals), and
Oliver Kraus
(strings and horns on the exquisite finale "Beauty #2"). The album is released in advance of a single featuring a remix of "A Shot in the Dark" by Assassins producer
Stephen Hague
(also of
Pet Shop Boys
and
New Order
fame). "All I can do is hope that people out there are into slow heartache music, and will get it!" says Cassidy. Having waited since 1998, Cassidy might only wait another year for the next album: "I told Guy, I have a great
Phil Spector
-style pop record here! There's little point in repeating myself."
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