Josh Kimbrough/Katie Zickefoose/Ross Connolly/TJ Maiani...ALSO ON NOTHING's PERSONAL: Travis Diehl, Martin Anderson, Robert Britt...LIVE GUESTS: Peter Lewis, Jesse Ainslie, Joah Tunnell, Joe Norkus, and Noah Dehmer
Influences
Bowerbirds, Elizabeth Cotton, David Grubbs, David Karsten Daniels, Vetiver, Lungfish, Mark Kozelek, Joan of Arc, Phosphorescent, Six Parts Seven, The Red Krayola, Owen, Erik Satie, Sam Prekop
Also available at CD Alley, Bull City Records and Schoolkids Records.
"Butterflies' latest aims for the heart and rarely misses. Kimbrough's songwriting is detailed but not obsessive, allowing the gauze of memory to soften his focus. In tandem with his voice, it gives the songs a welcome sense of sincerity and intimacy."
-Bryan Reed, Independent Weekly
"On Nothing’s Personal Kimbrough has crafted songs that are plaintive and child-like or just heavy enough to open up the spine. Save for one divinely heavy track (‘Relive Brielle’) that tips its hat to Marcy Playground and Chapel Hill’s Chip Smoak, the album is decidedly low-key. Kimbrough sings with pierced, cool vocals that have an echoed quality and is perfectly accompanied by Katie Zickefoose’s vocals (‘Four Letters’)...Kimbrough has a fine way with lyrics. They’re either locked in circular mystery, rich in humor or incredibly vivid."
-Bootleg Magazine
"In an impersonal world, where it is easier to go through the self-checkout line instead of talking to a cashier, Josh Kimbrough has created a personal connection to his musical audience through his album, Nothing's Personal."
-Go Triad
"Filled to the brim with nostalgia and the kind of common sense songwriting that appeals to all ages, Nothing's Personal proves that emotional music doesn't always have to be painfully dramatic."
-The Daily Tar Heel
Marrying meticulous instrumentation to soaring vocals, Butterflies reimagine indie pop in laid-back folk environs, fiddle darting around acoustic guitar and a simple trap kit. Those intimate settings provide the ideal backdrop for the contemplative (though hopeful) soul searching of former Mortar and Pestle frontman Josh Kimbrough, who gets help from a revolving cast of friends and Trekky Records associates, including pianist/ girlfriend Katie Zickefoose. She adds generous harmonies. —SG (Independent Weekly)
Josh has been writing songs since he was fifteen and has fronted such bands as Mortar and Pestle, Westfalia, and Straight No Chaser as well as contributing significantly to Trekky's house band, Auxiliary House. With Butterflies, Josh has retained many of the elements of his previous projects, while increasing the care given to the craft of pop songwriting. While his signature fluttering guitar lines and vocals are still the bedrock of his compositions, his newfound focus on mature and concise pop songs has lead him to create more fully-realized musical statements than ever before.
Butterflies has released a series of handmade EPs since forming in late 2006. The proper debut, titled Nothing's Personal, will be released by Trekky Records in November of 2008.
Josh has played guitar with Embarrassing Fruits, Wil Donegan and the Apologies, The Strugglers, Barghest, and Auxiliary House. Pitchfork thinks his guitar playing is 'concise'.
Josh has played trombone with David Karsten Daniels, The Strugglers, The Never, Deleted Scenes, Embarrassing Fruits, and Auxiliary House. He probably doesn't want to know what Pitchfork thinks of his trombone playing.
Thanks so much again for such a great time last night. What a show! Have a safe trip and an awesome time. Can't wait to hear all about it Love you guys A & P
INVISIBLE at the local 506 on Sunday the 5th! This will be your last chance to see INVISIBLE rock like punks. Cause, soon we are gonna 100% art on y'all mofos.
Very pretty! Thanks so much for finding us! We gotta get some shows lined up together! Thinking of doing an east coast thing first couple weeks of May, maybe you'd like to be a part of! :-)
Mind Games is cool, I added it to my site, and don't forget to tune in tomorrow, Noon-1, for the Joe & Joe Local Show on WCOM (live streaming & a MySpace friend), yea, cool.
Hooray you're playing at Shakori Hills. Maybe I'll finally get my Brooklyn song. I keep bugging Holly Z to bug you guys...c'mon Josh, you told me you'd send it to me way back at the LITT project symphony!!!
man, underpants have been on in this cold house....i do know about jon's show but blank blank is actually doing a gso show that night. we'll get him out here soon though. anyways, we're moving into a new house so when you come to gso you should check it out, we're fixing it up and getting to do a lot of work on it and it's been super fun. i hope all is going well.
hope you all tune in tomorrow noon to one on WCOM for the beginning of the 12 month run of the Joe & Joe Local (music review) Show in Carrboro, NC and live streaming on the web for your listening pleasure
link: http://communityradio.coop/
I believe that Josh of the Butterflies will be interviwed as well, so tune in.
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