Blonde Redhead

Blonde Redhead's first album for 4AD moves a bit further from their noisy assaults of the past. It's not a big change -- their melodies have always alluded to something more melodic and oddly romantic. With strings and an exacting attention to musical detail, they have made something that sounds battered and beautiful.

Blonde Redhead have been slogging away as part of the Sonic Youth-led downtown New
York rock axis since the mid-Nineties. After five fair-to-middling albums, the band has
suddenly emerged, Flaming Lips-style, with one of the better indie-rock records of the
year: Misery Is a Butterfly, a bang-up mix of electronic song structure and guitar
impressionism. Tracks such as "Elephant Woman" are cinematic in the way Frenc... More >