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Butcher Boy's "React Or Die" Track By Track
Glaswegian act Butcher Boy came to our attention in 2007, with the release of their first album "Profit in Your Poetry."
It was a real treat, a excellently realised indie folk pop album, full of literate, heartfelt lyrics about wistful memories: it’s tender, organically produced sound drew favourable comparisons in my own mind: "Think early Belle and Sebastian haunted by a real past, the precise poetic pop of the Smiths tinged with a heavy Glaswegian sensibility. Think the tunes of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions matched to the intimacy of Arab Strap, most of all think wonderfully dark pop music, for nights out or those long dark midnights spent alone by your turntable, reading the inlay, and submersing yourself in the sound."
They followed this up with the single "18th Emergency" later that year, a stately ballad it was like being allowed to read someone's secret diary entry, each line consumed with poetic heart tugging imagery that conjures up moments in time, lovers lost and real kitchen sink drama.
Their new album "React or Die" is preceded by a single "Carve a Pattern" which you can download here(from the folks at Stereogum):
Butcher Boy- Carve A Pattern
http://stereogum.com/mp3/Butcher%20Boy%20-%20Carve%20A%20Pattern.mp3
It reflects a progression a more buffed up, musically expressive sound that still bares the emotional brevity, and bittersweet vocals at the heart of Butcher Boy. We caught up with their lead singer/lyricist John Blain Hunt (who is also the famed DJ behind the National Pop League nights) for an exclusive insight into each of the tracks that make up their second work "React Or Die."
Butcher Boy's "React Or Die" Track By Track
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