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Avenpitch
12+ albums
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"Highly addictive once the poison sets... Avenpitch is extraordinary." -Aiding & Abetting Where Avenpitch's self-titled debut stabbed a thrash-metal knife through the heart of New Wave, the band's follow-up LP, Butterfly Radio (Omega Point Records), breaks out the chainsaw. Anchored by its unforgettable title track, Butterfly Radio finds Avenpitch moving even farther towards both extremes. Guitars and synthesizers push recklessly into the red, as if the band were trying to blow a fuse or crash their hard drive, yet the songwriting remains laser-focused, with every hook and shout-along chorus precisely arranged for maximum pop effect. Had the Sex Pistols grown up listening to the Happy Mondays and New Order, instead of the other way around, Butterfly Radio could very well be the result. The opening bars of "A Safer Car" set the agenda for the album, with a raspy guitar and glitchy synthesizer bashing out a hum-able melody in unison. But it's on the second track, "Jack the Idiot Dance", that the album really shifts into high gear - originally composed for a compilation of children's music released in Germany (perhaps the only country where parents would pummel their toddlers with warp-speed disco-metal), the track starts off with some deceptively innocuous toy sounds before the melody stomps in like a Godzilla-sized jack-in-the-box. "Butterfly Radio", the title cut, creeps along with nervously plucked strings and what sounds like a legion of marching boots, the tension buildi
