Famous Problems

the butterflies of love hail from new haven, connecticut, and have made two albums (1999's 'how to know' and 2002's 'the new patient') of soul-searing melancholy and heart-stopping beauty. they rock too. they've had single of the week in the nme and glowing reviews in mojo, uncut, the times, the guardian and many more, been compared to the likes of galaxie 500, pavement, the velvets, rem and the go-betweens, and inspired john peel to applaud on air. their albums are wonderful, shimmering, intimate affairs and third album 'famous problems' is no different. yearning melodies and softly-softly harmonies (think the go-betweens) mix with back-porch swing (lambchop, maybe) and tentative yet high-tensile guitar work (velvet underground, pavement). cd only on fortuna pop.