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Butterfly Explosion - 'Lost Trails'
(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
CD available at:
www.ccnow.com
currency estimates (ex. postage):
UK - £7
EU - €8
USA - $10
Also availabe at Tower Records and HMV throughout Ireland.
JAPAN - Disk Union
Downloads:
emusic
Napster
Rhapsody
Download album for €6.99 using PayPal at Bandcamp.com
PRESS & REVIEWS
"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
"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."
- www.staticmultimedia.com
"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
Album of the Week - www.indierockcafe.com
"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
“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 full of vivid musical ideas presented with a shimmering refinement – a beautiful album”
- Great Yarmouth Advertiser (UK)
“this type of music has a beating heart with a beautiful sound structure”
– 4/5 Forge Press (University of Sheffield UK)
“This Dublin-based band is gaining fans all over the world for its innovative and hypnotizing sound.”
- www.spinner.com
“With Silversun Pickups whetting the alternative crowd's appetite, these guys might actually find a niche in America”
- The Village Voice (NYC)
“from shoegazer alt-rock (Ride and My Bloody Valentine are immediate comparisons) to epic post-rock instrumental pieces (here the comparison is to bands like Sigur Ros, Tortise and Explosions in the Sky)…this is the sort of disc that you are going to want to listen to from start-to-finish.”
- Brooklyn Rocks blog (NYC)
“Dublin rockers The Butterfly Explosion, who've been compared to M83 and My Bloody Valentine, take 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)
Portuguese review - 5/5
German review
Spanish review
“It's absolutely brilliant” – Paul McLoone, TodayFM
“like M83 meets My Bloody Valentine meets Sigur Ros in Heaven” – Dan Hegarty, RTE 2FM