The Bilinda Butchers – Careless Teens
About three years ago when MySpace was still a functional and navigable platform for finding music and meeting neat people, I came across a page run by a San Francisco duo called The Bilinda Butchers. Finding myself enticed by the overt homage to everyone’s favourite shoegaze lady, I grabbed the free EP they had posted at the time. What I found was a sweet and endlessly listenable bundle of bossa nova-inspired bedroom pop with expected nods to reverb-happy bands of the 90s. I ended up including their song Gigi on a mixtape that I shared on my website in 2009.
Out of the blue a couple of weeks ago, I received an email from Michael (who is one half of the Bilinda Butchers) thanking me for posting the mix that I included their song on (upon realizing that the site I posted it on was my own personal website and not a music blog). He also included their latest collection of songs, entitled Regret, Love, Guilt, Dreams, which, after first listen, I could tell that they had not only worked very hard on this new release, but also broadened their sound and production tools.
Careless Teens retains the same home-recorded warmth and charm of their older songs songs but shows a greater understanding of how to make a song live up to it’s full potential. Thankfully and expectedly, a lot of the same late 80′s / early 90s alternative rock and shoegaze influences are still very much present (I could swear that’s Billy Corgan singing the first few lines).
PWYC / listen to all of Regret, Love, Guilt, Dreams here.
