Buttercup - Battle of Flowers (2017)

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Title: Battle of Flowers
Year Of Release: 2017
Label: Bedlamb / Palo Santo Records
Genre: Indie Pop, Indie Rock, Alternative
Quality: 320 Kbps
Total Time: 40:20 min
Total Size: 102 MB
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Tracklist:

01. Let It Drop
02. Acting Thru Music
03. Gud Gurls
04. How to Think More About Sex
05. Champagne from Spain
06. Swallow Fly
07. Open On / Shut Off
08. Vicious Rewind
09. I Love You (You Believed in Me)
10. Don’t Go It Alone
11. Henry B. Gonzalez
12. 68 Playmate

Erik Sanden, bassist odie, and Grammy award winning guitarist/producer Joe Reyes have spent over 15 years as members of Buttercup, at once a full-on rock machine and a performance art collective. Over the course of 6 albums, a documentary DVD, and countless genre-bending live shows, they’ve remained current and vital despite shifts in music tastes and technology. Battle of Flowers is their first recording to consist totally of live takes recorded in the band’s rehearsal studio. Guitarist Joe Reyes says “with the extra guitar, keys and vocals, expertly played and sung by Diego and Emilio, this was the first time we could actually perform and record all of the parts of a song live. And then, like The Beatles, I’d turn one of the monitor speakers towards us and we’d sing all our parts together on one mic. We worked fast and had fun and you can hear that on the record. Larry Crane did a great job mixing what is essentially a live record.”

Bassist odie adds “It’s how recording should be done. Just push record and go. For us it’s the most organic thing.” Sanden agrees wholeheartedly, “Headphones are like a barrier: it feels so much better when you take them off. A band that is free from care is the best possible band it can be.”