Butterflies on Strings are a very refreshing act. Uplifting indie ‘post-pop’ is their forté, an ever-growing list of exquisite songs the evidence of this. They associate with the likes of The Shins and Death Cab For Cutie, but this London four-piece are a more cheerier alternative to those two, their songs less daring but instead more gladdening. There’s just the faintest trace of indie rock in their sound – courtesy of sporadic electric guitar-infused rousing moments – but their strength lies more in the alt-indie side of their construct.
If you can imagine The Emerald Armada and Mumford & Sons minus the folksiness, you’re on the right lines. Their new EP is a delight that really brings to the foreground the group’s ability to work perfectly in tandem. Allan Harrod’s lofty vocals on ‘Burning Slowly’ get the good times rolling, before things are kicked up a gear or several in their best track to date, ‘Too Much Fruit’. Drums unleashed, things feel more intense: power in numbers as everyone gives it everything. A true highlight of a live performance.
All other songs on A Boy Named Crow are more delicately delivered but the good times never fade. Every individual track exhibits something different and that’s testament to the group’s intentions to stray from convention. This EP is even better than the last they released, earlier in 2012. The video for title track ‘What Did John Stuart Mill Say Again?’ is above; A Boy Named Crow is below in full.
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