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Album Details

• Artist: The Buttless Chaps
• Album: Love This Time
• Label: Mint
• Year of Release: 2003
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2003-10-22

Love This Time is a bit of a departure for the Buttless Chaps. This time around, Dave Gowans and his rowdy posse of misfits have decided to move even further away from the alt.country tag they have acquired over the course of 4 albums. Love This Time is more along the lines of orchestral pop than twang. If they already didn't have a stigma attached to them, people wouldn't even be able to put them in the genre any more. The arrangements on this album are amazingly lush. With piano and horns providing depth and breadth to the album. We see Jesse Zubot, Evan Symons, Carolyn Mark, Brian Samuels, Ford Pier, and Ida Nilson helping out the foursome. There are tracks like "Lonely Hearts" that still warrant The Buttless Chaps an alt-country tag but if they stray much further then we will have to revoke that title. Listen to "Love This Time", the track that features Ida Nilson singing and harmonizing with a three-chord vocorder. That's right. Sounds like this girl's in love with a robot. The Buttless Chaps have created an album that requires a bit of getting into but that's something to be said for a band such as this. They have achieved a very original composition here and that is something that is hard to do these days.

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