Artist: The Butterfly Effect
Album: IV
Release Date: September 2nd 2022
Reviewer: Andrew Treadwell

The Butterfly Effect IV

14 years is an awfully long time, no matter what you are doing in your life. Waiting 14 years for your favourite band to release new music would be unbearable. For fans of The Butterfly Effect, their latest release IV, is well worth the wait and then some. It’s not a comeback of sorts, more like a fresh beginning.

Their last album Final Conversation of Kings  was released in 2008, and since then the band have gone through their own inner issues and done solo projects and seemingly left fans with little hope of reconciliation, so how does IV stack up?

Opening with the moody cinematic vibes if the title track “IV”, which will probably leave the casual listener a little confused at the direction the band is going to take

“Dark Light” with its huge mixture of melody and harmony weaves in and out of some all out power. It harkens back to the past but plants a foot firmly in the direction of the the future

The soundscapes of “The Other Side” and “Nil By Mouth” are both chaotic, yet precise and deliberate. The band have put a lot of hard work into making sure these songs not just tell the story but deliver the vibe

The album showcases The Butterfly Effect at their most elegantly ferocious and focused to date, there’s significant balance throughout IV between show-stopping rock and riffing roar alongside significantly hard-hitting thematics, as Glenn elaborates, “It feels like there’s lots of contemplation of death and rebirth. Disconnection and then reconnection. The temporary nature of time, the passing of dreams, getting older, dealing with change, finding new meaning in life. All of these are completely understandable when you consider the history of the band over the last 10 years and where we all find ourselves as we get older”. 

Set to hit the road in late September and October, the band’s first full tour since 2019, fans can catch old and new favourite tunes across the country, with Ben Hall, Clint Boge, Glenn Esmond and Kurt Goedhart, aka The Butterfly Effect, bringing local heavies Thornhill and Caligula’s Horse along for the ride.  Kicking off in Cairns at Tanks Art Centre on September 30, the tour will then be hitting Townsville, Mackay, Toowoomba, Brisbane, Sydney, Hobart, Melbourne and Adelaide before bringing proceedings to a close in Fremantle on October 16. For tickets and information, head to www.thebutterflyeffectband.com.au.

Lineup

Clint Boge: Vocals

Kurt Goedhart: Guitar

Glenn Esmond: Bass

Ben Hall: Drums

IV is out now.

Tickets for The Butterfly Effect’s upcoming national tour are on sale now from www.thebutterflyeffectband.com.au.

THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT – IV 2022 TOUR:

with guests Thornhill & Caligula’s Horse

Tickets available from: www.thebutterflyeffectband.com.au

FRI 30 SEPT | TANKS ARTS CENTRE, CAIRNS, QLD | 18+

SAT 1 OCT | MANSFIELD HOTEL, TOWNSVILLE, QLD | 18+

SUN 2 OCT | HARRUP PARK, MACKAY, QLD | 18+

THUR 6 OCT | BLANK SPACE, TOOWOOMBA, QLD | 18+

FRI 7 OCT | EATONS HILL HOTEL, BRISBANE, QLD | 18+

SAT 8 OCT | UNSW ROUNDHOUSE, SYDNEY, NSW | 18+

SUN 9 OCT | HOBART UNI BAR, HOBART, TAS | 18+

THUR 13 OCT | NORTHCOTE THEATRE, MELBOURNE, VIC | 18+ *NEW SHOW*

FRI 14 OCT | NORTHCOTE THEATRE, MELBOURNE, VIC | 18+ *SOLD OUT*

SUN 15 OCT | HINDLEY ST MUSIC HALL, ADELAIDE, SA | 18+

SUN 16 OCT | METROPOLIS, FREMANTLE, WA | 18+

IV – Tracklisting

IV

Dark Light

Wave of Tides

Nil By Mouth

The Other Side

So Tired

Unbroken

Great Heights

Start Again

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