regret, love, guilt, dreams

THE BILINDA BUTCHERS ~ REGRET, LOVE, GUILT, DREAMS (independent, 2011)

Michael and Adam - the young duo behind this project - create the prettiest pieces of dreampop being made on the west coast of America (to know a bit more, read my interview with them). Their music has a melancholic, hypnotic (and slightly tropical) atmosphere, extremely rich in textures and lyrics talking about friendship, sorrow, love, lack of love...
This is, most of all, getaway music. The kind you listen to when you feel like being somewhere else and/or with someone else and/or by yourself. And while dreampop might be the main reference, it also has hints of chillwave and balearic sounds.
In the past 2 years, a few eps and singles were released independently and on labels like Beko. Now, they have a new 6 track ep on their bandcamp.
Some of the songs already appeared in previous releases, but I think the best moments are the new songs.
'Boyfriend' has to be the highlight of the ep. A song with subtle electronics and Michael's whispered voice giving the feeling that it seems to be dripping out of your ears.
'Careless Teens' shows a more rock-ish side of the duo with distorted guitars and aggressive lyrics (almost
fatalist). It sort of breaks the delicacy and dreamy atmosphere of the album (but in a good way).
'Secrets' is an instrumental - almost ambient - track, with guitar lines that scream beach-by-the-sunset. Beautiful way to end the ep.
Follow the buzz (because this music is good and deserves attention), jump on your cloud and enjoy these delicate and heartfelt songs.

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the bilinda butchers. interview #25

We are back and Michael and Adam came with us with their dream-bedroom-pop, My Bloody Valentine inspirations and some California melancholy...
I'm not gonna say much because this interview is the most detailed we've ever had. I think that editing is good but here we focus on giving artists the space they need/want to say what they feel like saying. More than an interview, you'll see that it turned into a conversation between the boys.

 01. Tell us a bit about the history of the band and how did you get to the name? I mean, I think everyone knows who Bilinda Butcher is… but how the idea of naming the band after her came up?
Michal: We started the band when we were sixteen.
Adam: In the summertime.
M: Adam taught me how to play guitar a little while after we met. He showed me a few chords and we kind of just started playing together after that. We had always liked the same type of music and the same bands, so it kind of just worked out. I followed in Adam's footsteps a lot more back then, though. He showed me a lot of bands and taught me the chords and progressions that we use now, which are all jazz-based. So, we were always kind of in a band, but it was never like "oh, okay, let's be in a band." Then Adam moved to the east coast for a while and we would talk on the phone pretty regularly, and I remember asking him if he had heard My Bloody Valentine (because I was really into them at the moment), and he was like "oh my god, I love My Bloody Valentine!" Well, he was actually listening to them for a long while before I had heard them, haha, but we kind of had a strong rekindling with MBV.
I think it was a really important phase for both of us. So, after a while, Adam ended up coming back to California for a year of high school, and I just kind of proposed that we start a band. I was like, "hey, I've got a band name, let's start a band!" He loved it, and that was that.

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