About this record

Underneath the elegiac California ennui of "Bruises and Butterflies" runs a bloody gurgling of rejection and outrage. Drawn from the bottom of the well of Randazzo's broken marriage, "Bruises & Butterflies" uses a musical palette of British folk (like murder ballads, geddit?) and the mythic shadows of classic west coast rock to paint the portrait of a desecrated woman, attempting to understand her own heart