Butcher Boy: Helping Hands – review

(Damaged Goods)A seven-piece, sensitive indie-pop group from Glasgow were always going to risk life in the shadow of Belle and Sebastian. However, Butcher Boy's third album sees them affirming their own groove of beautifully crafted and orchestrated pop songs. The main template here is clearly Love's Forever Changes; however, John Blain Hunt's almost exaggeratedly polite delivery recalls the same era's classic British songsmiths, especially the Bee Gees circa Massachusetts. Hunt's exquisite eye...

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