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BUTTERFLY P!G: It’s Another Life

Wellington’s Butterfly P!G sound immediately like a Kiwi band – the accent, the sound of the guitar. There are traces of Dunedin and blasts of Garageland-esque poppy goodness (“Don’t forget to forget me”, singer Steve Rendle part-whines/part-drawls over a slightly fuzzy Beelines To Heaven-progression). On the album’s opener, the towering Bob Dylan Electrocuted the P!G has written a song any aspiring musician should be hoping they had. It’s a little bit country, it’s a little bit post-punk, it subverts the influence of its influence and it cracks along with peels of guitar, lines winding around one another. There are traces of Neil Young guitar licks elsewhere and some gloriously mournful cello to support the title track. It’s a punchy album, full of great pop-influenced songs that occasionally embrace the sound of The Go-Betweens. And in that simple magic you hope for whenever you play a new album, it’s a record that continues to get better with every spin. Recommended.

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