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Butterfly Reviews

Overall Rating
8

Butterfly

1997

22 Sources have reviewed this album

9/10

Delusions of Adequacy

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Arguably the best album in their career.

8.5/10

Filter

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Misery doesn't step forward so much as expand outward; roughly half of the album... sounds as if it could've been lifted off of Melody. The other half is purely visceral. [#10, p.91]

8/10

Flak Magazine

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The album is something of a wash, packing a less potent dose of Makino but an extra kick of Pace.

8/10

Mojo

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They've carved a bleak and beautiful album; their best, in fact. [May 2004, p.106]

8/10

Logo

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Like an air-bushed Slint re-emerging with Stereolab as their chief influence, Blonde Redhead engulf their guitars beneath so many keyboard tinkerings.

8/10

Stylus Magazine

Despite the increased emphasis on production, like Blonde Redhead's entire catalogue, the chirping, child-like cords of lead vocalists Amedeo Pace and Kazu Makino act as the essential ingredient to the bands avant-garde concoction.

8/10

The Wire

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A rewarding new departure. [#242, p.72]

8/10

Playlouder

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It's not just the vocals that captivate. The sheer busyness of the whole production and all the sounds are to be marvelled at, and though it would be easy to over-egg, they never allow any of the tracks to be cluttered or overblown.

8/10

Tiny Mix Tapes

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The whole affair has a grandiose, almost decadent feel to it, with its damaged beauty and elegance.

8/10

PopMatters

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The expansion of their sound to include breathtaking strings and keyboards has proven to lift Blonde Redhead out of the post-rock mire and recreated them as a band finally worthy of their past praise.

8/10

Junkmedia

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Repeated listens... reveal the album's complexity and highlight how far the band has come in the four years since their last release.

8/10

All Music Guide

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The album's soft-focus allows Blonde Redhead to explore its relatively newfound romanticism more deeply than before... but with less tension between the fragile and harsh aspects of the band's sound, its soft-focus occasionally drifts into lack of fo

8/10

Pitchfork

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The bristling energy that once held would-be sympathizers at bay has been turned inward, resulting in an unprecedented illusion of warmth.

7.5/10

Spin

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[Has a] swirling spy-movie ambience. [Jun 2004, p.108]

7/10

Splendid

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Deliberately slow in tempo, delicately arranged, emphatically "dreamy" in tone, Misery is a Butterfly is lovely, but also difficult going for Blonde Redhead fans.

7/10

No Ripcord

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It is never fun, but is always compelling.

7/10

Urb

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Blonde Redhead's most confounding element is also one of their most endearing. With her ethereal, paper-thin voice, [Kazu] Makino often slips frustratingly off-key. [May 2004, p.84]

7/10