THE BUTTLESS CHAPS
Love This Time (Mint Records)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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This doesn't sound much like country western music. It's more like a collection of space cowboy poetry put to music, retaining the jangly rhythm of the written form but set to a wide assortment of musics, heavy on the '80s synth pop and keyboard samples and the occasional Hank Williamesque rambling guitar tune and a capella choral ensemble. There are great lines throughout this album, thrown in apparently for rhyming purposes, like "Why did Molly Ringwald film 'Wild Horses?'." It's a really bizarre little collection of songs, musically grabbing at all kinds of things but somehow managing to fit together as one album.

© 2004 - Holly Day