Butch Walker - Sycamore Meadows (2008)

Butch Walker "Sycamore Meadows"
MP3 | CBR 320 Kbps 44100 Stereo | 119.91Mb
2008 | Genre: Pop / Indie / Songwriter

Tragic events inspire Butch Walker to make his best album to date. When we last touched base with Walker in 2006, he was busy critiquing Hollywood from the inside, through the eyes of a country boy and rock n’ roller embroiled in the glitzy, sordid surreality of LA’s elite party scene.

Late last year, however, his life in LA came to a dramatic halt when bush fires in Malibu burned his rented condo to the ground, destroying almost everything he owned and every master tape he’d ever recorded. Amid this chaos, he appears to have suffered a relationship crisis of some sort- either he was at breaking point or very close to it- and it was this clusterfuck of emotions that gave birth to Sycamore Meadows, the best single record of his opinion to date.

Sycamore Meadows is heavily informed by Walker’s fire experience, but the specific themes are far more relatable: stories of heartache, loss and loneliness, along with the obligatory scene critique for good measure.

For the second album in succession, Sycamore Meadows features guest vocals by pop singer P!nk, who appears on album highlight (and potentially Butch’s best ever creation) ‘Here Comes The...’ She doesn’t add an awful lot to the track- she’s only there to provide colour- but what she does she does well. Sitting on top of a funky acoustic guitar groove, the lyrics perfectly capture the fear and helplessness that is felt when a relationship seems to be on the road to collapse.

Sycamore Meadows is an album that was born from heartache, and it’s on the saddest and most visceral numbers that the album truly shines, and perhaps gives some validity to that old lie about art.

Track List:

01 - The Weight Of Her
02 - Going Back - Going Home
03 - Here Comes The....
04 - Ponce De Lone Ave..
05 - Ships In A Bottle
06 - Vessels
07 - Passed Your Place, Saw Your Car, Thought Of You
08 - The 3 Kids In Brooklyn
09 - Summer Scarves
10 - A Song For The Metalheads
11 - Closer To The Truth And Further From The Sky
12 - ATL
13 - Bonus Track

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