You Had A Kind Face
by Butcher Boy
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Butcher Boy’s ‘You Had A Kind Face’ is the tenth release from the acclaimed Needle Mythology label. The album an anthology of songs by the revered Glasgow band originally released between 2007 and 2017. Butcher Boy released three albums of literate, melodic pop songs, none of which were released on vinyl, before returning in 2017 for a stand-alone EP Bad Things Happen When It’s Quiet. Gathering together songs from all of these releases, vinyl copies of You Had A Kind Face also come with a seven-inch made up of three new songs including the new single Dear John.
Butcher Boy’s John Blaine Hunt says of Dear John “Lyrically, the song is three brief scenes, each twenty years apart, from birth, to adolescence, to adulthood. The lyric also touches upon a devotion to music, and the arrangement reflects that – listening to it now I hear Devo, Joe Jackson, REM, Electrelane, John Carpenter, nods to many records that we love. We made a video for the song and closed it with a quote from “Sargasso” by bIG fLAME, another song which means a lot to us. On balance, and considering what we were able to say with it, “Dear John” is the song of ours I love the most.”
The album has been mastered for vinyl by Miles Showell at Abbey Road and pressed on 180g vinyl at The Vinyl Factory. Long-time fan of Butcher Boy, the author John Niven has written a devastatingly beautiful complement to the songs on You Had A Kind Face drawn from his own early memories of pacing the same Irvine streets where the band’s songwriter John Blain Hunt spent his formative years. The images used for this anthology are all taken from a series of 1979 photographs by John Walmsley capturing the new town landscape of Wester Hailes in South-East Edinburgh. Now in his 70s, Walmsley was so taken with Butcher Boy’s music that he assented to the use of previously unseen photographs for You Had A Kind Face.
For Needle Mythology founder Pete Paphides, the release of You Had A Kind Face is the culmination of a love affair that began back in April 2009, when Butcher Boy’s second album React Or Die was about to come out. “It was as close to an out-of-body experience as I’ve had listening to music in my adult life,” he recalls. “I was working for The Times back then, I called my editor on Monday morning and told her that we had to make this our album of the week. And the other thing I remember was that I was so nervous writing my review, the way you would be nervous writing a letter declaring your feelings for someone with whom you had fallen in love. Because I had.”
SIDE 1
1. When I'm Asleep
2. There Is No-One Who Can Tell You Where You've Been
3. Helping Hands
4. Sunday Bells
5. The Day Our Voices Broke
6. Storm Warning In Effect
SIDE 2
1. I Know Who You Could Be
2. Carve A Pattern
3. You’re Only Crying For Yourself
4. Bad Things Will Happen When It's Quiet
5. This Kiss Will Marry Us
6. Every Other Saturday
DISC 2
SIDE 1
1. Dear John
SIDE 2
1. So Far So What
2. Love Is A Fact
Butcher Boy’s John Blaine Hunt says of Dear John “Lyrically, the song is three brief scenes, each twenty years apart, from birth, to adolescence, to adulthood. The lyric also touches upon a devotion to music, and the arrangement reflects that – listening to it now I hear Devo, Joe Jackson, REM, Electrelane, John Carpenter, nods to many records that we love. We made a video for the song and closed it with a quote from “Sargasso” by bIG fLAME, another song which means a lot to us. On balance, and considering what we were able to say with it, “Dear John” is the song of ours I love the most.”
The album has been mastered for vinyl by Miles Showell at Abbey Road and pressed on 180g vinyl at The Vinyl Factory. Long-time fan of Butcher Boy, the author John Niven has written a devastatingly beautiful complement to the songs on You Had A Kind Face drawn from his own early memories of pacing the same Irvine streets where the band’s songwriter John Blain Hunt spent his formative years. The images used for this anthology are all taken from a series of 1979 photographs by John Walmsley capturing the new town landscape of Wester Hailes in South-East Edinburgh. Now in his 70s, Walmsley was so taken with Butcher Boy’s music that he assented to the use of previously unseen photographs for You Had A Kind Face.
For Needle Mythology founder Pete Paphides, the release of You Had A Kind Face is the culmination of a love affair that began back in April 2009, when Butcher Boy’s second album React Or Die was about to come out. “It was as close to an out-of-body experience as I’ve had listening to music in my adult life,” he recalls. “I was working for The Times back then, I called my editor on Monday morning and told her that we had to make this our album of the week. And the other thing I remember was that I was so nervous writing my review, the way you would be nervous writing a letter declaring your feelings for someone with whom you had fallen in love. Because I had.”
Released: April 2022
Cat: NEMYLP011
Label: Needle Mythology
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Tracklist
DISC 1SIDE 1
1. When I'm Asleep
2. There Is No-One Who Can Tell You Where You've Been
3. Helping Hands
4. Sunday Bells
5. The Day Our Voices Broke
6. Storm Warning In Effect
SIDE 2
1. I Know Who You Could Be
2. Carve A Pattern
3. You’re Only Crying For Yourself
4. Bad Things Will Happen When It's Quiet
5. This Kiss Will Marry Us
6. Every Other Saturday
DISC 2
SIDE 1
1. Dear John
SIDE 2
1. So Far So What
2. Love Is A Fact