Butterfly Toungz' new album available@TowerRecords.com

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Butterfly Toungz new hip-hop album: "Wide. Open. Spaces." has received critical acclaim every since its release last year. It is now available at the following locations:

http://www.towerrecords.com/product...=2845607&cc=USD

www.cdbaby.com/btoungz

www.fullinbloom.com/topsellers.html

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Here's what "Shotgun Reviews" online says about the new album:

"Get Open"
Jan 31 , 2003
By Capt. Westside

As the bling-bling/ball to you fall movement in hip-hop comes to an end..(fingers crossed), and the emphasis in hip-hop music is returned to substance, intricate lyricism, fun and originality--the Indianapolis based group known as Butterfly Toungz readies themselves for the end of a much artistically depraved era. With a style thats similar to the (mid 90's) Native Tounges collective, the Toungz hope their third full-length LP, "Wide Open Spaces" can revitalize the zombiezed-industry that stagnantly trains listeners with a 16 bars 4 bar hook song. Basically, The Toungz are here to get you open with some "creativity."

Though they're virtually the new kids on the block, DJ Germ, Gravity and Sub-One have accomplished much together in the still developing Indiana hip-hop scene. They're the proverbial medium-sized fish in a very small pond. Sub handles 99.9% of the rhyming, Germ handles the turntables and Gravity handles the production boards. With "Wide Open Spaces" you won't get out of this world concepts and you won't get played out anthems of women, drugs and ice. There's a smidgen of abstract lyricism, but nothing too over-the-top. There's typical locker-room $$$$ talk, as Sub-One brags upon his favorite body part, on the aptly named "Richard Nixon." But the "$$$$ jokes" are balanced out by universal themes of bad days gone worse, on "Monday!" & late-night tall-tales of having too much to drink, on "Pina Colada."

Throughout, "Wide Open Spaces," The Toungz utilize a diversified spectrum of eclectic samples, ranging from the deliciously remarkable to the supremely strange. An album that is seemingly made up of literate rhymes, old records and personal experiences. "Live@the Emerson" is an overly energetic tune that displays Sub-One's humorous ability to make fun of himself.

However, "Wide Open Spaces" is not all fun & games. Social issues such as teenage pregnancy are addressed on, "Love Letter." Inspired by Public Enemy's "Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos" and driven by an ill harmonica loop, "Love Letter" is built in the Maury Povich "are you my babies daddy" mold. Campiness aside, "Love Letter" actually tackles a would-be young fathers parental irresponsibility. The Toungz also discuss the harsh realities of day-to-day living, as well as death. Losing a loved one is never easy and on, "Butterflies In My Stomach." Sub-One spits rhymes from his soul, "I wonder why it gotta be this way/I asked the lord Jesus Christ, everyday I pray/but I never get an answer, tell me do you hear me/butterflies are in my stomach..look what happened to me!"

"Wide Open Spaces" sports the kind of beats that make you nod your head without thinking. And in classic hip-hop fashion the kind of rhymes that make you hit "rewind" in awe. Sub-One's fluid & storytelling style is instantly likable. The AceHa interludes (in Prince Paul-like fashion) help to add the right touch of obnoxious humor. This one is a long play for extensive listening pleasure. So, its advised to cop this one for any road trip with a distance over 300 miles. The Butterfly Toungz totally encompass what hip-hop should be: artistically sound, unabashedly conscious, raw/rough-around-the edges and cool.

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