Review
Flutterby
(Alex the Great/A&M)
Release Date: 10/30/2003 12:00
Reviewed by James Hannaham
On Butterfly Boucher’s solid debut, the 24-year-old Australian singer-songwriter looks up to radio goddess Sheryl Crow’s sun-drenched pop, with a wink at Avril Lavigne’s spunky faux-punk, too. As with Crow, Boucher’s competent, unpretentious craft is moderately impressive, much like her multi-instrumental prowess. Singing and playing everything, she sounds like an excellent if uninspired studio band. Her voice is formidable but distinguished mostly by her Aussie vowels. She’s great at wrapping herself around a power chord, most notably on the sexy, dynamic single “I Can’t Make Me.” But she won’t settle for being fun, instead straining for profundity. Unfortunately, though, when she ruminates on a discarded past by marveling at the highway dividers on “Another White Dash,” she speeds the listener into Lavigne’s more puerile territory.
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