Butcher Boy’s music sounds like where it’s from: Maine. Big, post-rock soundscapes combine with banjoes and vocals that sometimes reside way up in singer Pete Swegart’s sinuses. The twangy guitar, when you apply a slide to it and stretch out the note, creates the type of long-form texture we might get from a band like Sigur Ros—another group from a snowy, beautiful, and vast landscape. Maine’s country/folk music meets a reverbed description of Maine’s backwoods and dirt roads.
Check out their brand new album, Shoreless Seas, released December 21st. – Geoff Noble