Jack Butler - new single 'Surgery 1984' - press release and reviews.

JACK BUTLER - new single Surgery 1984 - taken from their critically acclaimed debut album Fit The Paradigm.“The missing link between Minus the Bear and Arctic Monkeys”. Praise from Rock Sound can barely come higher or more daunting. Jack Butler are worthy of it. Following the Top 40 indie chart track, Hit it out the Park, Son which received industry wide acclaim and obtained airtime on various nationwide radio stations including Radio 1 and London’s XFM, Jack Butler continue their success with the roaring new Single Surgery 1984. Taken from their eclectic debut LP Fit The Paradigm released earlier this year on the Whimsical Records label, with Mark Freegard (Manic Street Preachers, The Breeders) twiddling the knobs in the studio, Surgery 1984 showcases some of the Stirling four piece’s most infectious sounds with an imaginatively layered song, highly contagious hooks and choruses you catch yourself singing and air drumming to long after you’ve listened to it. Hailed by the pioneering ‘‘BBC Introducing‟ programme and winning the Radio 1 Demo Derby, the band have been receiving rave reviews across music websites, blogs and fanzines, with the debut album being described as “Quite simply a belter” by Music News Scotland.
Jack Butler continue what seems like a never-ending line of effervescent Scottish indie acts such as Franz Ferdinand, The View and The Fratellis. But look (or preferably listen) closer and you’ll see the subtle nuances of bravery where others have failed to tread. Jack Butler have boldly moved forward adding their own particular brand of synth pop funk to an already tight, dynamic indie sound with contagious drumming patterns and some both jangly and heavy guitar riffs reminiscent of Foals. Surgery 1984 draws you in with its beautifully reverb-laden melodic guitar licks over a wonderfully spongy bass line that gives the track its beat and funk. Liam Kelly’s vocals sway between pop and punk, giving it an engrossing, honest and almost grungy feel, that leads you nearly unknowingly into the powerful last half of the track. Overall the result is an invigorating energetic mix somewhere between Jack Peñate, Editors and Modest Mouse with some electro synths thrown in to glorious effect.
Cutting it live with such acts as Florence and The Machine, Glasvegas & The Wombats, playing various festivals including T in the Park and currently touring Scotland, Jack Butler’s increasing fan-base are being treated to an art rock album of great proportions. This single adds another string to an increasingly impressive bow, Surgery 1984 will have you toe tapping, head bopping and reaching for that repeat button. You can guarantee this will bore its way into your head in a way that you’ll want it to stay there.
(Mark McDermott)
Surgery 1984 b/w This Soul Accelerates is released as a digital download on October 26th 2009 on Whimsical Records.
www.myspace.com/jackbutlerpresents

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***A SUBBA-CULTCHA.COM SINGLE OF THE MONTH***
JACK BUTLER – SURGERY 1984 – WHIMSICAL
Spiraling guitars divide and reconnect into crystalline shapes whilst what seems like an indie male choir begins to weave it’s harmonies over the thundering bass and staccato drumming – with a voice that finds itself somewhere between the Guillemots & Manic Street Preachers, given a near-hymn like quality creating something genuinely different and interesting within the indie gendarme…
http://www.subba-cultcha.com/singles.php


Sounding like The Killers have snuck into a Dredg recording session to funk it up a bit, Jack Butler’s latest single Surgery 1984 continues the infectious, foot-stomping drive of their previous effort; Hit it out the Park, Son with more subdued vocals.Minus the shouty chorus of Hit it out... and bass dialled down a little, Surgery 1984 is a subtler, more melancholic track showing the Scottish four-piece have more strings to their guitar than many of their contemporaries.Are they catchy enough for pop-rock, or quirky enough for alternative success? Biffy Clyro have managed to tread the line between the two and I hope Jack Butler can manage the same as they’re one of the more interesting new bands I’ve heard this year.For: People who find Minus the Bear too low-key or Arctic Monkeys emotionally bereft.Not for: People who are easily genre-confused. (Ed Prior) (8 out of 10)
http://www.dieshellsuit.co.uk/article_detail.asp?rID=4070

Stirling returns in the form of Jack Butler's Surgery 1984 (***), which steps the competition up a level via the simple method of slowly building towards a climactic explosion. It's the first great moment of the D12 so far, and herky-jerky b-side This Soul Accelerates is pretty good too.
http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/97294-the-dirty-dozen---october-2009

And now it's time for some jingly jangly Scotch indie rock, courtesy of Jack Butler.The band, who still don't have anyone called Jack in their ranks, would have you think that this is art-rock, but they're far too mainstream for that, and the bass rhythm and forceful vocal on 'Surgery 1984' would make any passing Franz Ferdinand fan very happy indeed. They may also want to check out their debut album "Fit The Paradigm", whence this cometh.
http://s14.zetaboards.com/Zeitgeist/topic/6587363/1/


Stirling quartet Jack Butler, deliver a searching example of their high reaching modern rock. In the case of "Surgery 1984" this is perhaps a less upbeat example of their work, but it’s no less noisy or impulsive, building up in layers of shimmering guitar loops before escalating into a series of soaring guitar versus bass lines, that sound a little bit too much like Interpol. The B-Side "This Soul Accelerates" delves straight into some 1980’s guitar indie, with heavy disco intentions and a drive not a million miles away from the recent experimentation of Wild Beasts, but with more of a lo-fi charge that eventually ends up sounding like very early U2.
MMM By Milton Trebuchet
http://www.music-dash.co.uk/releases/release.asp?item=6508

Singer/songwriters are two-a-penny these days. Oh, but wait, on closer inspection Jack Butler are in fact a Scottish indie four-piece. Far removed from the conventional moniker though, there is little formulaic about their output. Title track ‘Surgery 1984’ begins innocently enough with sparkly light guitar picking and lead singer Liam Kelly’s earnest vocals before the track gains muscle with forceful basslines and frenetic, choppy guitar. Alas, if anything the track ends far too prematurely giving short shrift to some intriguingly invigorating melodies. ‘This Soul Accelerates’ continues in the same vein; straddling the gaps between the jaunty, jangly esoteric rhythms of Foals and the tight, intelligent pop sensibilities of Vampire Weekend with a heartfelt feel for sincere song writing. Infectious drumming breathes life into the track, gifting the lightweight guitar licks a welcome danceable edge comparable to Bloc Party. Both tracks hint at great things and with a little work and a few tweaks, Jack Butler could be one to watch.
Rated 10 out of 13 by Omar Soliman
http://www.roomthirteen.com/cgi-bin/cd_view.cgi?CDID=10431

Wrap your head around this one- Jack Butler isn’t some solo, chest thumping troubadour, he’s a band! Better than your average indie upstarts they combine elements of artrock, poppy hooks, and even the occasional disco drum beat (thanks Franz Ferdinand). The ‘Surgery 1984′ single calls to mind the sadly departed Rakes, the wiry guitars, the insistent rhythm section practically begging the kohl eyed lovelies down the front to dance. The melodies are pretty catchy too, sadly it’s all a bit too heavily influenced by their undoubtedly ‘diverse’ record collections. I’d go out on a limb and suggest Jack Butler likes a bit of Bloc Party, Cribs, Foals, Editors, et al. The songs are naive but their youthful exuberance is infectious, with a bit of time they could be an interesting prospect. Jack Butler assure us that, "you’ll be air drumming long after you’ve finished listening". Despite my best efforts to stop you can still see me on the back seat of the number 44 arms furiously pumping to ‘Surgery 1984′ stuck on repeat in my head. (4 stars - Jack Baxter)
http://www.isthismusic.com/jack-butler-2