Baby C4 - The Buttertones


The New and Notable section of Bandcamp never fails. "Baby C4" is the first single to come from The Buttertones' upcoming fourth studio album, Midnight in a Moonless Dream, foreshadowing a collection of gothic, manic, unfiltered rock. Reminiscent of the late-90's, early-2000's period of rock and roll in New York with the likes of Jonathan Fire* Eater, Interpol, and The Strokes and the current west coast works of nuanced groups such as, Sports Coach or Spooky Mansion, The Buttertones is able to somehow aesthetically connect the dots from coast to coast, clearly heightened in "Baby C4."

For the past few years The Buttertones have been making some noise in L.A accumulating a tight-nit and local following but I have a feeling the release of Midnight in a Moonless Dream will spread the fire from LA to the East Coast and "Baby C4" is the crossover spark to send The Buttertones wild. Evident in it's off-key piano chords, stern descending guitar chords, squealing sax and encroaching beat, the track begins as an unkept and unhindered madness but when singer Araiza's stuttering-face-reddening vocals and aggressively building instrumentation comes barreling through a full-on pandemic ensues.

I think there's no more appropriate name for this song but "Baby C4" acting like a precursor to an atomic bomb or at least a small taste of what's to come for The Buttertones.

Midnight in a Moonless Dream is set to release this May 4th and I highly recommend giving it a glance or two because this is some seriously cool shit, and while you're at it, show the five-some love:
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