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Band of Holy Joy |
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How To Kill A Butterfly |
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Exotic Pylon |
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Indie |
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28/05/2012 |
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5060195512769 |
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CD+BOOK |
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158.00 |
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Description
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| Margin walkers and midnight drifters, Band of Holy Joy have wandered liminal landscapes of their own making for 3 decades now and Exotic Pylon Records are truly thrilled to present their new album How to Kill a Butterfly. Conceived in a New Cross squat by Newcastle émigré Johny Brown in 1984, the band have endured bruises, battles and numerous line-ups without ever losing the magical essence that has abided at the heart of their emotional worries and philosophies. Their idiosyncratic mangling of punk, folk, Brechtian vaudeville cabaret and occult channelling of the strangeness of everyday life opens up warmly wild anarchic spaces, as any participant at a Holy Joy gig will testify to.But with renewed strength and stability, How to Kill a Butterfly represents a new phase, practically a rebirth in the band s history. Never without grace, Band of Holy Joy are now in command of a more sophisticated and subtle emotional pallet than ever before, giving full sonic reign to previously submerged psychogeographical concerns. Butterfly explores a weird Northern hinterland where the rural and industrial meet delving deeply into the landscape and throwing arms around the dark with a mixture of terror and bliss. These new songs unfold slowly, subtly creeping up on you, taking their time but not averse to kicking in a door or two if necessary. The Players: Andy Astle abrasive and delicate on guitar, Christopher Brierly on devastating melody-soaked violin, Johny Brown the vocal eye of the storm- possessed, lost, found and reaching out, William J. Lewington the band s original drummer, now returned to the fold with eloquent speed and thunder percussion, new recruit James Stephen Finn on rolling bass, eerie electronics and crepuscular synths and Inga Tillere wrapping the whole thing together with haunted panache a visual guiding light showing the way home.How to Kill a Butterfly is the finest album of Band of Holy Joy s long, crazy existence. So far.
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Link
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| http://www.myspace.com/bandofholyjoy
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Track List
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| CD | | | | | 01 | Go Break The Ice | | | 02 | Oh What A Thing This Heart Of Man | | | 03 | These Men Underground | | | 04 | Betweeen A Nightingales Song And Now | | | 05 | Sadness Ignorance And Longing | | | 06 | Northern | | | 07 | The Observers Book Of Birds Eggs | | | 08 | The Repentant | | | 09 | Shake The Dust Off Your Feet | | | 10 | A Clear Night, A Shooting Star, A Song For Boo |
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