Butter
- Turbo Fruits
- Band Name: Turbo Fruits
- Record Label: Serpents and Snakes
- Release Date: Sep 11, 2012
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Dec 3, 201270With Eno at the controls, the Turbo Fruits straighten up, fly right and in the process bash out their most enjoyable work to date.
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Sep 14, 201262The whole thing is less bratty than 2009's Echo Kid.
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Sep 14, 201260Stein and Brock still seem to be working out their garage and pop influences in their guitar work; they don't deliver a fully satisfying fusion of their influences, but instead split the difference between jangle and crunch, watering it all down in the process.
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Sep 13, 201253By aiming for so many different styles, settling for subpar-at-best lyrics, and trying to pay the bills with rock'n'roll, they never find a sound that's fully captivating or convincing.
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Sep 12, 201280Given a fuzzed-out, subterranean production glaze, Butter filters everything from surf and lounge touches to Spaghetti Western flourishes, but is best when spinning cool pop hooks up out of the muck. [Oct 2012, p.87]
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Sep 12, 201250The wild abandon, lo-fi to the point of being muffled style is Butter's main appeal. It is also its downfall. [Aug/Sep 2012, p.122]
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Sep 12, 201268An unchallenging, unsurprising, and un-garage-y joy, but a joy nonetheless.
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Sep 12, 201270It's [closing song "Ain't The Only One Havin' Fun is] a free-spirited return to the teenage wildness that's entirely off from the varied, conflicted emotions of an otherwise mature Butter. Even on this step away, the true blue guitar riffs and steel-cut hook are the work of a professional pack of southern garage rockers.
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Sep 12, 201280Butter not only betters their signature sound, it finally makes it sound concise.