I first got interested in Belfast's Butterfly Child when I read a review that described them as a cross between the Durutti Column and My Bloody Valentine. Right up my alley, obviously. There's a big dollop of Red House Painters in their sound too, at least on the 1993 debut album Onomatopoeia. Actually, they seem to take bits and bobs from a lot of different styles, but come up with a remarkably coherent result.
The music is so gorgeous it would have been no less interesting as an album of instrumentals, but Joe Cassidy's soft, mournful vocals do add a nice touch. Pity the two subsequent albums didn't measure up.
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