Twin Peaks • "Butterfly"
While SXSW can be a pretty awesome experience, it's also truly fucking exhausting. Especially if you're there as an artist rushing from showcase to showcase. In his collaboration "Spaceship II" with Alex Wiley & GLC from a few years back, Chance The Rapper spoke on this feeling, yearning "When we going to home? My eyes hurt, my throat hurt, my soul hurt...". Having spent the last 5 years in Austin for the festival, that's still the most spot on I've heard it described.
Another Chicago act tells a similar Texas tale today with "Butterfly". Written last year while at SXSW, the new single captures the carousel of thrills and corresponding crashes that make the festival what it is. "Butterfly" released today alongside a lyric video, and marks the official follow up to recent fan favorite "Walk To The One You Love". Read a further description of the song's inspiration below, and get ready for a new Twin Peaks album to arrive May 13.
“This song was written in Texas last year for SXSW, when I was in a sickened state after playing twelve or so shows in five days. So the lyrics are a mixture of negativity and exhilaration. Exhilaration because I was doing what I most loved to do, and negativity because it was really taking a toll on my mind and body. Death was on the mind. Also sex. Also the Zombies (they played SXSW and there were posters of them everywhere). So I took the gentle and fleeting image of a butterfly and a simple group of chords and lots of yelling to make a sort of doomy dance song that quite honestly could be summed up as ‘let’s have sex because we’re all going to die.’”
