BLONDE REDHEAD

BLONDE REDHEAD
MISERY IS A BUTTERFLY (2004)
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Blonde Redhead: two Italian-Canadian jazz-studying twin brothers and two Japanese art students form a band after a chance encounter in a Italian restaurant in 1993. Now that is an artsy cosmopolitan bunch, quite fitting for the New York alt rock scene. The band quickly ends up as a trio formed by Kazu Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace.

People on the Web (read: Wikipedia/Last.fm) say that their first albums are noisy alt rock that drew comparisons to Sonic Youth, but later productions (such as this album) are quite different.

What to expect here: baroque pop, lush production and arrangements, Kazu Makino's eerie voice, plus male vocals too, and err... music?, and horses.

1. Elephant Woman
2. Messenger
3. Melody
4. Doll is Mine
5. Misery is a Butterfly
6. Falling Man
7. Anticipation
8. Maddening Cloud
9. Magic Mountain
10. Pink Love
11. Equus

My favorite songs in the album: Elephant Woman, Doll is Mine, Maddening Cloud, Equus.

On a side note: this is my first post as a guest on New Moodswings. I owe half of my music taste to Mr Moodswings, so I thought I could contribute part of the other half. ;)