Butterfly Assassins
Combining up-tempo guitar riffs with c lassical piano and violin,this Chicago 4-piece are by far the best new band I've heard in months.I stumbled across them completely at random at FreeIndie.com,where the description,"If Mozart were into emo music,he would have been a fan of Butterfly Assassins" caught my eye..."If it's good enough for Mozart,it's good enough for me!",I saids,and boy was I right.Sounding exactly like Muse would if they and Arcade Fire were melded together in some bizarre accident,they write little 4-and-a-half minute concertos that sound so operatic and polished you feel they would be better off writing real real c lassical music,albeit with the standard depressing emo lyrics.
"Prelude No 1 In D Minor" and "Little Violin" have gotten almost exclusive play on my Creative Zen for the last 2 weeks,and if it wasn't for the fact that I am completely broke I would have bought their EP(self-titled and self-released),forced all my friends to listen to it and made them buy it too by now.
I expect nothing but massive things from this group,and am anxiously waiting for them to grow big enough to tour internationally and arrive in a unsuspecting venue near me.Seriously,I actually drool at the thought of it!