Seminal dream-pop act Butterfly Child is back after a 17 year gap.
Joe Cassidy, the Belfast-born, L.A.-based figure at the centre of Butterfly Child last released an album under the guise in 1998 - Soft Explosives - and a one-off single in 2012, but in the mid-'90s, the outfit were at the vanguard of a new wave of music on Rough Trade Records. Landmarks of the genre - 1993's Onomatopoeia, for example - came from Butterfly Child, before all went quiet at the turn of the millennium. Noise is being made now, however - and lots of it.
Now Cassidy's back with the news of a new record called Futures, and its first single, "Lost In These Machines"