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Blonde Redhead have been slogging away as part of the Sonic Youth-led downtown New York rock axis since the mid-Nineties. After five fair-to-middling albums, the band has suddenly emerged, Flaming Lips-style, with one of the better indie-rock records of the year: Misery Is a Butterfly, a bang-up mix of electronic song structure and guitar impressionism. Tracks such as "Elephant Woman" are cinematic in the way French art films often are: They obey the narrative dictates of raw emotion more than they do the soothing conventions of traditional songwriting. Lead singer Kazu Makino uses her soprano like a paintbrush, making her exactly right for this music. Let's hear it for late bloomers.
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Track List
- Elephant Woman
- Messenger
- Melody
- Doll Is Mine
- Misery Is A Butterfly
- Falling Man
- Anticipation
- Maddening Cloud
- Magic Mountain
- Pink Love
- Equus
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