Butterfly Child 'Passion Is The Only Fruit' (Dedicated, 1995)

Giddy, ethereal alternative pop from the singular vision of Joe Cassidy aka Butterfly Child.

Butterfly Child released a brace of divine, rococo alternative pop albums in the early nineties - 'Onomatopoeia' and 'The Honeymoon Suite'. They were collections of gossamer-fragile songs, decorated with ornate melodies, swooning vocal arcs and a restless beauty.

Each album was a bucolic fantasia that, whilst reflecting the Shoegazing and whimsical nature of Slowdive et al, seemed to reject modernity and artifice whilst using drum machines and sequencer lines alongside guitars and strings. Instead the songs conjured images of angels and architecture, poets and dreamers, all drunk on love. Stuff like that.

Belfast-born Joe Cassidy seems to have disappeared and there hasn't been anything by Butterfly Child since 1998. His music has a kinship to the likes of the ethereal esperanto of Cocteau Twins, arch, progressive songsmiths Spoonfed Hybrid, dreampop orchestrators AR Kane and maybe Tim Buckley but is the work of a true original.

These albums are long-deleted but well worth hunting down.

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