Sycamore Meadows
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Sycamore Meadows is the fourth full-length album by Butch Walker
. It was released in the United States on November 11, 2008. Walker wrote three tracks ("Ships in a Bottle", "Vessels", and "The 3 Kids In Brooklyn") prior to the Malibu house fires that took his home in November 2007. These tracks were made available on Walker's Myspace site in demo form in late 2007. Butch stated in an interview with InklingsTV that "[the fires] made [him] feel like [he] had something to prove, something that [he] needed to say". The physical packaging of the album is, according to Walker, very 'bare-bones', because he wanted it to be 'all about what's on the disc'. The album was acclaimed by music critics. At Metacritic
, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100, Sycamore Meadows currently holds a rating of 81/100, indicating universal acclaim.
Butch released a online-only video for the first single "Ships in a Bottle" through his Myspace website on September 15, 2008. The music video for the second single "The Weight of Her" premiered on Amazon.com
on November 24, 2008.
A special 180-gram vinyl-edition release of Sycamore Meadows was made available for the 2008 holiday season.
Butch Walker
Butch Walker is an American recording artist, songwriter, and record producer. He was the lead guitarist for the metal band SouthGang from the late 80s to early 90s as well as the lead vocalist and guitarist for rock band Marvelous 3 from 1997 until 2001.-Career:Walker grew up in Cartersville,...
. It was released in the United States on November 11, 2008. Walker wrote three tracks ("Ships in a Bottle", "Vessels", and "The 3 Kids In Brooklyn") prior to the Malibu house fires that took his home in November 2007. These tracks were made available on Walker's Myspace site in demo form in late 2007. Butch stated in an interview with InklingsTV that "[the fires] made [him] feel like [he] had something to prove, something that [he] needed to say". The physical packaging of the album is, according to Walker, very 'bare-bones', because he wanted it to be 'all about what's on the disc'. The album was acclaimed by music critics. At Metacritic
Metacritic
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, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100, Sycamore Meadows currently holds a rating of 81/100, indicating universal acclaim.
Butch released a online-only video for the first single "Ships in a Bottle" through his Myspace website on September 15, 2008. The music video for the second single "The Weight of Her" premiered on Amazon.com
Amazon.com
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on November 24, 2008.
A special 180-gram vinyl-edition release of Sycamore Meadows was made available for the 2008 holiday season.