Track Listing

1. Life Is Short
2. Can You See The Lights?
3. I Can't Make Me
4. Another White Dash
5. Soul Back
6. A Walk Outside
7. Never Leave Your Heart Alone
8. Busy
9. A Beautiful Book
10. Don't Point, Don't Scare It
11. Never Let It Go
12. Drift On
13. For A Song (Non-LP Version)
14. Gift Wrap (Non-LP Version)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #96347 in Music
• Released on: 2003-10-13
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

A really good album
Like many other reviwers we were first introduced to Butterfly by hearing her supporting Sarah McLachlan on her UK tour. We bought it and it was the 1 CD in the car for a 10-day trip through British Columbia - even the fact that we now know virtually every song verbatim doesn't make us love her any less. This is a really good album. I disagree with some other reviewers who can't find anything bad to say about it - although most of it is excellent, I found "Never Leave Your Heart Alone" a bit irritating . Highlights are "Busy" and "A Walk Outside", as well as the much-mentioned "I Can't Make Me" and "Another White Dash" - which is a great driving song! It's a refreshing CD from someone who is difficult to describe - there are echoes of Avril Lavigne and Tori Amos but she's no carbon copy or knock-off, she's an original. A really enjoyable album.

Actually, she can make me love her.
When I bought this album, three weeks ago, I thought it was fantastic. Attracted to the talented aussie's music by the genious of "I Can't Make Me" I kept coming back to "Flutterby an wondering if it was worth purchasing. Turns out it was! Now imagine my surprise when on Wednesday the 27th I go to the concert I've been waiting to see for ages: Sarah McLachlan's Afterglow tour, (Fantastic show - see the afterglow live CD for review) I find that Butterfly was the very talented supporting act. She put on a great show - Butterfly was great, and played all the songs I had been singing since getting the album - I just couldn't believe it!
Anyway, since seeing her live, my enthusiasm for "Flutterby" had been greatly enhanced and i love every song! Butterfly's album is unique, quirky and quite brilliant, her songwriting simple in places but effective - this truly is an album worthy of buying - get it!

The nicest kind of surprise!
I came across this album entirely by accident. After being impressed by Butterfly's version of Changes on the Shrek 2 soundtrack, I idly searched for her name, and found her official website, through which I found this album!
I can't tell you how glad I am that I found it!
This album is a bit of an oddity, there is absolutely no way to categorise it - and that's why I love it!
Each and every song on the album has been written, played and arranged by Butterfly herself. From the rocky opener Life is Short to the melancholy Never Leave Your Heart Alone, it practically oozes with originality.
Another White Dash is a fast-paced, guitar-led, belter of a track. Listening to it, it is so easy to conjure up the image of speeding along the open road, which of course, is the point.
My favourite track has to be A Beautiful Book, with a raging drum beat and frenetic guitar riff coupled bizarrely with mournful background voices and very poetic lyrics. The weirdest part of it all is just how well it works!
A Walk Outside contemplates a tricky question (which came first, love or the love song?) with a juicy bassline and some nifty drumming; while Drift On has a languid, sunshiney feel.
You won't find fluffy, over-complicated lyrics - or for that matter, subtlety - on this record. Play it as loud as possible, so that you can let the excitement and passion really take hold of you.
It's not the most polished of debut albums, but the rawness suits Butterfly's beautiful, rough-edged voice. I guarantee that every track will surprise you, and if you love good music and crave something utterly original, try this!