Butcher Boy
Scottish indie pop band Butcher Boy take notes from Tindersticks, Belle and Sebastian, the Left Banke, and Love for their crushed chamber pop, augmenting gentle, melodic tunes with orchestral strings and brass arrangements. Based around the poetic songs of guitarist/vocalist/founder John Blain Hunt, Butcher Boy released new music intermittently, beginning with 2007's full-length Profit in Your Poetry and continuing with sporadic new material over the next ten years. In 2022, the anthology compilation You Had a Kind Face collects highlights from the band's discography and includes three new, previously unreleased songs.
Hunt formed Butcher Boy in Glasgow around 1998, but took several years to get the band into proper shape. In the beginning, Hunt could barely play guitar and was better known as a club night organizer. Before starting the band, he had used the pseudonym Butcher Boy when anonymously submitting poetry to local newspapers. The first iteration of the group played a few shows between 1998 and 2001, after which Hunt got more serious about solidifying the band's lineup and recording some of the songs he'd been working on. Now backed by a rhythm section, an additional guitarist, and a full string section, Hunt's songs reached their fullest form on 2007 debut Profit in Your Poetry. The band's literate chamber pop made fans of both casual music listeners and other musicians, and Butcher Boy released 2009's React or Die and signed on with Damaged Goods for 2011's Helping Hands before falling into a less-active period. In 2017 they resurfaced with a three-song EP, Bad Things Happen When It's Quiet, which expanded their style somewhat with synthesizers and ambient sounds from a junk shop weather radio. In 2022, new release You Had a Kind Face culled tracks from all of the band's earlier releases and filled out the anthology with three newly recorded unreleased tracks.
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Discography
20 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Helping Hands
Alternative & Indie - Released by Damaged Goods on 29 Aug 2011
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Bad Things Happen When It's Quiet
Punk / New Wave - Released by Damaged Goods on 22 Apr 2017
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Blue Louiza
Alternative & Indie - Released by Death Decay Magic on 18 Apr 2024
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React or Die
Rock - Released by How Does It Feel To Be Loved on 23 Mar 2009
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Imperial
Alternative & Indie - Released by Damaged Goods on 22 Aug 2011
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Come On Now (Original Mix)
Miscellaneous - Released by Hammerheads on 1 Jan 2016
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Girls Make Me Sick
Rock - Released by How Does It Feel To Be Loved on 12 Feb 2007
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The Eighteenth Emergency
Rock - Released by How Does It Feel To Be Loved on 3 Sep 2007
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Nail Biter (Original Mix)
Miscellaneous - Released by Toolbox Recordings on 18 Jan 2016
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The Harlsden Clap (Original Mix)
Miscellaneous - Released by Toolbox Recordings on 9 Nov 2015
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Fire Bomb (Ben Stevens Remix)
Electronic - Released by Piranha Trax on 24 Jul 2013
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Drop That Beat (Original Mix)
Miscellaneous - Released by Hi Oktane Records on 14 May 2012
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Jam It (Original Mix)
Miscellaneous - Released by Stereodays Recordings on 12 Apr 2011
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Nail Biter (Original Mix)
Miscellaneous - Released by Hammerheads on 18 Jan 2016
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Lone Walker (Original Mix)
Miscellaneous - Released by Small Town Records on 2 May 2012
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Come On Now (Original Mix)
Miscellaneous - Released by Toolbox Recordings on 1 Jan 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo