Wild Fictions, by Charlie Butler

Wild Fictions

by Charlie Butler

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Limited Edition Cassette
Cassette + Digital Album
Pro-dubbed fluorescent red cassette with pro-printed inlay and digital UV on-body image shell print, in a clear library case

Limited to 40 copies world-wide

Catalogue No: CN286

Includes unlimited streaming of Wild Fictions via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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	1.	Twelve Apostles 09:20
	2.	Loose Duke 05:43
	3.	Dark Fractions 06:24
	4.	Devil House 07:31

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"aural majesty not heard since the golden days of the Spacemen 3 and those long summer days daisy hopping. The music is all that you hoped it would be, for music without hope is hopeless and this is anything but that; it is the cream cake among lesser mortals."
- Brian "Bordello" Shea, Monolith Cocktail
monolithcocktail.com/2024/01/18/our-daily-bread-607-john-howard-james-p-m-phillips-corduroy-institute-charlie-butler/

"Charlie Butler has played in a bunch of bands including instrumental space-metallers Mothertrucker, who once came up with the unbeatable song title 'Reef Do All The Work, The Beatles Get All The Credit'. His latest solo offering leans more into the tradition of Spacemen 3 and Sonic Boom, or perhaps even the less jarring end of Astral Social Club. Floating on top of the foggy drone of the first song is a fairly jaunty melody, plausibly performed using a child's keyboard. This sense of playfulness and lightness of touch continues into the next piece, 'Loose Duke', which has the feel of indietronic post-rock. (Múm? Fridge? The Notwist?...) The second half of the cassette has a slightly more melancholic or even ominous edge which might be expected from the titles 'Dark Fractions' and 'Devil House'. There's nothing warm about the latter's fuzziness, for instance. It's more like when one of those pesky demons from another dimension tries to ooze its way out of the static on your television screen. To risk using that old cliché again, it is quite the journey."
- JR Moores, Columnfortably Numb, The Quietus
thequietus.com/articles/33769-ty-segall-the-loveless-bolts-of-melody-marc-almond-swervedriver

"Four strong forward moving pieces of almost droning almost Krautish construction, four tracks that slowly build, four tracks well worth your eartime…"
- The Organ zine
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Charlie Butler is a Lanarkshire based artist who began a series of solo releases in 2021 exploring psychedelic, ambient, heavy and hypnotic sounds alongside being a member of Cody Noon, Neutraliser with Mike Vest, Mothertrucker and Head Drop. He has had work published by Weird Beard, Cruel Nature, Fuzzed Up & Astromoon, and Panurus Productions.

"Wild Fictions" sees Butler exploring similar territories as his previous guitar-based works, but with dominant keyboards and synths creating a motorik kosmische air with touches of 'Recurring' era Spacemen 3 / Sonic Boom's Spectrum

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released February 1, 2024

Recorded and mixed at home November 2021 - July 2023

Mastered by Jack Chuter

Artwork by J. Lloyd - slug.tatts@gmail.com

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