Biography
by James Goulden
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Live line-up:
Gazz Carr - Guitar, Vocals
John Coman - Drums
Conor Garry - Bass
Jay Carty - Guitar
"The Butterfly Explosion are a band from Ireland that blend powerful spiraling music with delicate vocals to form rich soundscapes of beautiful melodies, gliding between moments of ethereal dreampop and explosive sonic bliss."
The debut album ‘Lost Trails’ was released digitally March 2010
on Revive Records and to Irish record stores in April.
'Closer', the first single, had already received extensive airplay from Ireland's
leading alternative music shows such as Paul McLoone(TodayFM) and Dan Hegarty(2FM)
who described the track as "My Bloody Valentine meets M83 meets Sigur Ros in Heaven".
Within a couple of weeks of the album release, more tracks such as 'Chemistry', 'Insulate Dreams',
'Sophia' and 'Tracing Stars' began to stir interest in the USA and with the album entering an increasing
number of stations' Top 30 playlists, 'Lost Trails' broke into the CMJ 200 college radio charts,
rising to #121 after one month. This jump in exposure was also reflected on Last.FM where they charted at #5 in the hyped artists chart
the week after the album's release.
Formed by guitarist/vocalist Gazz Carr, Butterfly Explosion had previosuly released two critically acclaimed EPs before recording began on the debut album late 2008 with producer Torsten Kinsella (God Is An Astronaut). Their epic live shows have seen them be championed by many as one of the most promising bands to emerge from Ireland in recent years. When UK webzine Drowned In Sound had a series of articles in 2009 dedicated to the revival and diverse influence of the early 90s shoegaze scene, Butterfly Explosion were amongst the international artists highlighted as ones to watch.
2010 will see the band embark on a number of tours from the UK(Feb), USA(March), Ireland(April) and mainland Europe (May), including festival appearances at SXSW in March and Liverpool Sound City in May.
Reviews
“Lost Trails, The Butterfly Explosion’s full length debut, feels like a dream from which you never want to wake.”
5/5 STARS - thesilvertongueonline.com webzine (USA)
"A sort of alt pop fantasy that is built from rather familiar parts but manages to be just a bit better than the bulk of the bunch ...what comes out of this seemingly simple arrangement is something to behold.” Lost Trails 3/4
- staticmultimedia.com(USA)
"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"
- www.examiner.com
"like M83 meets My Bloody Valentine meets Sigur Ros in Heaven"
- Dan Hegarty 2FM Ireland
Album of the Week
- www.indierockcafe.com
"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"
- RoadRecs.com
"At SXSW, MOJO's marketing manager was blown back to her shoe-gazing days by this Dublin quintet"
- MOJO magazine
Whelan's, DUBLIN: "The band were simply on fire. You can hear a million different influences intertwined and it can seem like Mogwai, My Bloody Valentine and M83 are all on stage at the same time ...a band on a mission to prove that they will become one of the greats of the current Irish music scene."
- drop-d.ie
Neutral, TORONTO: "I mentioned last week that Dublin’s Butterfly Explosion demonstrated some impressive growth between their first EP and their Turn The Sky release - well if their live show was any indication, their next release, whenever it comes, will be a quantum leap ahead and surely be something special."
- chromewaves.net
"one of the best new bands I have heard in sometime. And with their layered and textured sound - I am sure they will not remain a hidden secret for long. Highly recommended."
- lostmusic.co.uk
"The touching and intense melodies that encompass Turn the Sky give it a certain grace - the tear-jerking moment that comes with the end of a three year tryst....The Butterfly Explosion - with the help of Turn the Sky - has the potential to be successful, and not just with numbers, but with influence."
- AmpCamp.com
"They are an awe-inspiring, breath-of-fresh-air, shoegazing, post-rocking band...I was wow wowed dozens of times while listening to these five songs and I can’t recommend “Turn the Sky” enough."
