WL//WH Track Of The Day BUTTERFLY EXPLOSION
After a 15 year hiatus, Butterfly Explosion, the sonic brainchild of Dublin-native guitarist/vocalist Gazz Carr, formed in 2005, returns with the single, “Swallowed by Stars.”
Close-knit with the renowned Irish post-rockers God Is An Astronaut, as well as affiliated with their label Revive Records, the band made waves through impressive live performances and with their distinctive ever-floating blend of ethereal shoegaze, raw alt-rock energy and post-rock atmospherics, which defined their 2010 debut album, “Lost Trails.”
Featuring Laura Smyth on vocals, beyond Gazz Carr himself on guitar, piano, synths, and vocals, and with, once again, God Is An Astronaut‘s frontman Torsten Kinsella on co-production duty and bass plus guest musicians Lloyd Hanney (God Is An Astronaut) on drums and Jo Quail on cello, the new track, that seems to seamlessly pick up, with untouched heart and passion, from where they left off, is the first of several that will lead to the second full-length, scheduled for release this Autumn.
Emotional reflective streams of plucked crystalline guitar chords, and shimmery stroked strums, weave with melancholic piano keys, stirred by a soft plod of thudding percussions, to coalesce into a silvery slow building ascension atop gentle, wistful female vocals, that abruptly switch to anxious, fearful longing together with turbulent buzzy distorted textures, carved by poignant churns of high-pitched wails, that finally withdraw, under sad languid veils of cocooning strings, while exploring the idea of being startled awake in the darkness and desperately holding on to your dear life.
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