After the
Geraldine Fibbers festive fifty entry this year with ‘Fancy’ I famously stated ‘Where
have the Geraldine Fibbers been all my life?’ Sadly, this may have been a
little rash on my part. ‘Butch’ is a hotch potch of semi-alt-country soundbites
that often don’t quite hang together as songs, let alone as a full album. It’s
reminiscent, in spirit anyway, of albums by Sufjan Stevens, Done Lying Down and
Guided by Voices. There’s just something
that doesn’t gel.
That’s not
always a bad thing, but in this case it is. ‘Butch’ is seriously hard work
apart from the way too catchy opener; ‘California Tuffy’ and the dark growl of ‘Toy
Box’ which is a cracking little song. The rest just gets flicked.
The Geraldine
Fibbers sound much better when the female singer provides the vocals. I’m
assuming this is Carla Bozulich and I’d be really keen to hear some of her
other work. Apparently she’s been quite a prolific artiste. Maybe it should
have been ‘Where has Carla Bozulich been all my life?’ I hope so anyway.
2014 has been
a tough year at the Into the Valley office and it’s already the end of April!
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