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Drink Up Buttercup on tourhits The Loving Touch April 8
Drink Up Buttercup may hail from Philadelphia but the geography of their debut album Born & Thrown On A Hook is less easily located on a physical map. It’s an occasionally surreal mythology filled with tales of hopelessly flawed characters, star-crossed lovers, drunks, fairy tales & bad trips. It exists in a world touched upon previously by Tom Waits, Hans Christian Anderson and Lloyd Kaufman while musically it follows the direct lineage of classic songwriting: Bowie, The Beatles & The Beach Boys’ late 60s lysergia, early Roxy Music, Sabbath’s bass heavy pulse & the crescendos of Arcade Fire. Reminiscent of fellow city of Brotherly Love dwellers Man Man, DUB is a virtual orgy onstage, one that the Philadelphia Weekly says “will eat your fucking heart in front of you. Only that’s not exactly right, because there’s a fair chance the band doesn’t even realize you’re there. Their eyes are rarely open. They’re in a trance.”
Catch DUB in Ferndale at The Loving Touch April 8 just a few weeks after playing this year’s South By Southwest Festival in Austin, where they were noticed for their energy—the band played a dozen shows.
Recorded meticulously throughout 2009 by Bill Moriarty (Dr Dog / Man Man) and mixed by Rusty Santos (Animal Collective / Final Fantasy) it perfectly balances consistently catchy melodies with the raw energy of their trashcan pounding live show
Drink Up Buttercup may hail from Philadelphia but the geography of their debut album Born & Thrown On A Hook is less easily located on a physical map. It’s an occasionally surreal mythology filled with tales of hopelessly flawed characters, star-crossed lovers, drunks, fairy tales & bad trips. It exists in a world touched upon previously by Tom Waits, Hans Christian Anderson and Lloyd Kaufman while musically it follows the direct lineage of classic songwriting: Bowie, The Beatles & The Beach Boys’ late 60s lysergia, early Roxy Music, Sabbath’s bass heavy pulse & the crescendos of Arcade Fire. Reminiscent of fellow city of Brotherly Love dwellers Man Man, DUB is a virtual orgy onstage, one that the Philadelphia Weekly says “will eat your fucking heart in front of you. Only that’s not exactly right, because there’s a fair chance the band doesn’t even realize you’re there. Their eyes are rarely open. They’re in a trance.”
Catch DUB in Ferndale at The Loving Touch April 8 just a few weeks after playing this year’s South By Southwest Festival in Austin, where they were noticed for their energy—the band played a dozen shows.
Recorded meticulously throughout 2009 by Bill Moriarty (Dr Dog / Man Man) and mixed by Rusty Santos (Animal Collective / Final Fantasy) it perfectly balances consistently catchy melodies with the raw energy of their trashcan pounding live show
