Just like the most effective medicine, The Butterfly Effect’s latest album Final Conversation Of Kings should be taken twice a day for a week to feel its the full benefits. Once you do that the results will become self-evident.
The album begins to evolve with many well-thought-out moments delivered with all the trademark quality fans would expect from this Brisbane band. Their 2003 debut — appropriately titled Begins Here — announced their arrival by quickly going gold, a success that was repeated by the follow up, Imago, three years later.
If anything, Final Conversation Of Kings, released in September 2008 but now making waves in Europe, takes them further along a more accessible melodic path. This is a band attempting to break beyond the boundaries of Australia and really start to spread the word.
It is a nicely-meshed amalgam of the many different elements that the band now employs. Whilst refusing to sway from much of the original sound of Begins Here, Final Conversation Of Kings adds a few new twists and turns that, if anything, further compliment the ever present substance of their music.
Through deftly-constructed changes they ease us through the melodic, the sensitive, the delicate, and on into the heavy rock sections that ultimately lift the album on high. It’s a near perfect balance of breeze and blast, reflection and outward aggression, which highlights their characteristic trademark musicianship and imaginative songwriting.
Opening with the seven minute “Worlds On Fire” they ride across an impossibly smooth landscape that is times broken by the occasional rocky section. When they do step up the power it is, of course, expertly controlled and balanced.
This album is a natural progression from Imago, which in turn moved on from Begins Here. “Worlds On Fire” even includes the additional color of a horn section, signaling perhaps that the band's creative confidence is growing.
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