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Closer
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(released: 2010)
1. Closer 2. Tracing Stars 3. Sophia 4. Chemistry 5. Automatic 6. Turn In You 7. Insulate Dreams 8. Carpark 9. Crash ...See You On The Other Side 10. A Nearer Sky 11. A Warmer Moment
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General Info
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Genre: Alternative / Rock / Shoegaze
Location Ir
Profile Views: 406940
Last Login: 3/10/2013
Member Since 4/22/2005
Website www.butterflyexplosion.com
Record Label Revive Records
Type of Label Indie
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Bio
Butterfly Explosion released the debut album 'LOST TRAILS' March 2010. Since the album release, the band have toured UK, mainland Europe and performed at festivals in Ireland, England, Portugal, Austin Texas and Toronto Canada. More info: http://www.butterflyexplosion.com/ -
Members
Live line-up (2011): Gazz (guitar/vox), John (drums), Aine (synth), Fanj (guitar), Conor/Shane (bass) -
Influences
Smashing Pumpkins, Slowdive, Mogwai, M83, My Bloody Valentine, Sigur Ros, Explosions In The Sky, Nine Inch Nails, Ulrich Schnauss, Duran Duran, dEUS, Trail Of Dead -
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Latest Blog Entries
- Nov 19, 2010 8:29 AM Video from London gig at the 02 Academy with GIAA and Caspian
- Aug 26, 2010 11:32 PM ARTHUR'S DAY FESTIVAL & ELECTRIC PICNIC
- Apr 1, 2010 12:58 AM Lost Trails riding through the US college radio charts!...plus SXSW report
- Mar 8, 2010 11:37 PM #5 most hyped artists on Last.FM and Radio
- Feb 13, 2010 5:49 PM Debut album release...UK Tour....NY to SXSW
PRESS & REVIEWS
#14 in albums of the year - Shoegazer Alive
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"The Butterfly Explosion have a truly epic sound and the sheer magnitude of ‘Lost Trails’ is astonishing."
5/5 - www.punkrockistnichttot.com.com
"Lost Trails, the Butterfly Explosion’s full length debut, feels like a dream from which you never want to wake"
- 5/5 www.thesilvertongueonline.com
"What comes out of this seemingly simple arrangement is something to behold.”
- www.staticmultimedia.com
“Listen to ” Sophia ” or ” Chemistry ” or ” Automatic ” or the entire album for that matter and give me a simply reason as to why we shouldn’t brag about these sounds.” 5/5 - thesirenssound.com
"Lost Trails is truly breathtaking, a refreshingly unique exercise in sound that needs to be heard to be believed."
5/5 - NSR CD reviews
“this type of music has a beating heart with a beautiful sound structure”
4/5 - Forge Press (University of Sheffield, UK)
"Butterfly Explosion may have missed the boat by some 20 years in the alternative rock scene, but songs like these are utterly timeless. There’s 9 years and 9 months of music to come this decade and if anything can top Lost Trails, we could have a new golden age."
5/5 - (the Newcastle University paper, UK)
Album of the Week - www.indierockcafe.com
“With the Silversun Pickups whetting the alternative crowd's appetite, these guys might actually find a niche in America”
- The Village Voice (NYC)
“this is the sort of disc that you are going to want to listen to from start-to-finish.”
- Brooklyn Rocks blog (NYC)
“their own ruggedly beautiful dream pop twist on the shoegazing aesthetic of the 90s.”
- The Alternate Side (NYC)
“they are set apart from many of their modern-day contemporaries by their tendency to push a song into overdrive and make the already amazing just stunning…they are quite simply outstanding.”
– favouriteson blog (Newcastle, UK)
"Ride. Slowdive. Lush. Swervedriver. They all added to the fuzzed out, rock 'n' roll glory of shoegaze greats My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus And Mary Chain. Now Ireland's Butterfly Exposion are about to take their place amongst the elite with their debut album, Lost Trails"
- Inde Music Examiner
"having been graced with Lost Trails the latest from Butterfly Explosion, I can attest to the fact that an explosion of butterflies is something that can be described and experienced....warm and fuzzy, the dust settling after the airburst, the flames dying down amidst the cocoons left behind on the branches, waiting their turn and leaving us waiting for more."
- www.onlinerock.com
“Lost Trails is full of vivid musical ideas presented with a shimmering refinement – a beautiful album”
- Great Yarmouth Advertiser (UK)
“This Dublin-based band is gaining fans all over the world for its innovative and hypnotizing sound.”
- www.spinner.com
"fans of late eighties / early nineties shoegazing stuff will be instantly drawn into it."
4/5 - www.thebeatsurrender.co.uk
"We won't forget Lost Trails in the end of year lists, because it is one of the most moving debuts of the recent times."
- Spanish review
"Lost Trails is one of those few albums that manages to capture your attention and sensitivity from beginning to end."
5/5 - englinpopo.blogspot.com (Portuguese)
"The album is for me one of the first genuine highlights of 2010"
- coast-is-clear.blogspot.com (German)
"Lost Trails is the best post-rock/shoegaze album of the year"
- plattenvorgericht.blogspot.com (German)
“It’s absolutley brilliant” – Paul McLoone (TodayFM)
"It’s like My Bloody Valentine meets M83 meets Sigur Ros in Heaven". – Dan Hegarty (2FM)
"their releases just get better and better....little bits of the noisy sounds of slowdive, the wailing distorted guitars of my bloody valentine and even the slow building post rock of the likes of mogwai, lots of heavy swirling guitars, lush synths and thunderous but slow building drums" - Road Records
"At SXSW, MOJO's marketing manager was blown back to her shoe-gazing days by this Dublin quintet" - MOJO magazine