The Voluntary Butler Scheme - Trading Things In
A one-man assembly of bold and vibrant caricatures in sound; The Voluntary Butler Scheme makes its debut with the EP Trading Things In released on The Lowest Layer Of The Trifle Recordings.
22-year-old Rob Jones aka The Voluntary Butler Scheme takes a wry look at life's shortcomings and styles a plasticine pop of ruggedly organic and excitingly abstract songs.
Opening track Trading Things In is lyrically vivid English-summer pop. With ambitiously realised harmonies, and pleasingly shabby arrangement, it recognises the truly defining symptoms of love and devotion; Broccoli, running shoes and bad MP3 playlists.
With The Eiffel Tower And The BT Tower, Rob welcomes a swinging, ska inflected Motown group into his Midland home, "The BT Tower is the first thing that catches your eye when you go into Birmingham. Some sort of warped Midlands' pride made me want to put it in the title." The apparent pop soul whimsy of Hot Air Balloon Heart, shares the eccentric gifts of Nilsson and more immediately Gruff Rhys, as it spins classic songwriting into new, surreal and otherworldly shapes - "I've been dreaming of you so often, makes my hot air balloon heart soften…"
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