The House of Love
The Butterfly Album
Artifact no. SHLF.0272
A nice 180g repress from 2023 from the UK.
- Format
- Vinyl · LP · Album · Reissue · Stereo
- Year
- 2023
- Bought in
Berlin, DE
- Tags
- Source
- Discogs Release: 28316083
This is such a great album from the band of the same name. I should write more about it, but here are some interesting tidbits about it.
"Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. The House of Love - guitarist and vocalist Guy Chadwick, lead guitarist Terry Bickers, bassist Chris Groothuizen and drummer Pete Evans - formed in London in 1986 - Chadwick had been around the music industry for several years, but was energised seeing The Jesus And Mary Chain, inspiring him to form the band - Signing to Creation, The House of Love were greeted enthusiastically by the music press and their single, Shine On and self-titled debut album became indie disco classics - By 1989, the band were big news and had signed to Fontana, part of the PolyGram group. The group's debut album for Fontana, also confusingly entitled The House of Love, was released in February 1990. Known often as 'The Butterfly Album' after Trevor Key's distinctive artwork, much was made at the time of it's protracted birth and the weight of expectation, and the fact it was produced by five different people. Years later, it sounds assured and confident commercial indie, bursting with invention and melody. The re-recording of their Creation calling card, Shine On, gave them a UK Top 20 hit and Beatles And The Stones points the way to the gentler side of Oasis some years later."
— Quotes from the internet in several places, no author mentioned :(
From Guy Chadwick, the singer, on his site about this album:
"That difficult second album! Two years in the making after signing to Fontana, including a six week stint at Abbey Road’s Studio 2 of which most of the recordings were discarded!
"We then spent six weeks with Stephen Hague at Ad Vision and those recordings were also discarded! We finally connected with Dave Meeghan who produced the majority of the record, plus a couple of Tim Palmer productions (Shine On and Never) to the relief of everyone involved. At Ad Vision, Wet Wet Wet were also recording and Marti Pellow mistook me for the gopher and asked me to make him a cuppa. I told him to F off, which was quite brave of me considering he is a very hard Glaswegian."