Rising stars Dirty Honey announce third album Catch My Butterfly. "We've made mistakes, gotten over past regrets, lived more, and become better songwriters"

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Rising Los Angeles rockers Dirty Honey, have announced details of their third album. Catch My Butterfly is the follow-up to 2023's Can’t Find the Brakes, and will be released via Dirt Records on January 15 next year.

The band have also released the first two songs from the album, the thumping anthem Lights Out and the poignant Butterfly.

"Lights Out was the first banger,” says guitarist John Notto. "It’s one of those rare times when I got the solo right on the demo! It’s only one flavour of the album though. There’s so much more."

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Butterfly, meanwhile, finds the band in reflective form. "There are addiction issues in my family," says frontman Marc LaBelle. "I tried to write from a different perspective – either that of a father to an addicted child or the family member of an addict.

"In this scenario, you’re so overcome with worry about whether or not your loved one is alive or dead at any given moment. My thought was, ‘If you don’t get high, there’s no way that you’re going to catch this person who is so beautiful in your eyes, but so broken at the same time.'"

Catch My Butterfly was produced by John Feldman, frontman of LA punks Goldfinger, who has previously worked with Avril Lavigne, Yungblud, Blink-182, The Struts, Biffy Clyro and many more.

"I’m very proud of our perseverance," says Labelle. "Any band has to really survive to make a third record. We’ve made mistakes in the studio, gotten over past regrets, lived more, and become better songwriters. All of those things snowballed into Catch My Butterfly." "

"Catch My Butterfly shows the width of what we can do as musicians and songwriters," added Smolian. "We’re no one-trick pony."

Catch My Butterfly is available to pre-order now. Full tracklist below.

Dirty Honey formed in Los Angeles in 2017, and released their debut, self-titled album, in 2021. They've supported Guns N' Roses, the Black Crowes, The Who, Kiss, Rival Sons and Alter Bridge, and in 2022 co-headlined the Young Guns American tour with Mammoth WVH.

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Dirty Honey - Catch My Butterfly tracklist

1. Lights Out
2. If It’s Over
3. Numb
4. Wanderlust
5. Good For You
6. Butterfly
7. Good Times Gone
8. American Lies
9. Poison
10. Sweeter
11. No Way Out
12. New Blood
13. Lullaby
14. I Should’ve Known

Dirty Honey - Catch My Butterfly cover art

(Image credit: Dirt Records)
Fraser Lewry
Online Editor, Classic Rock

Online Editor at Louder/Classic Rock magazine since 2014. 40 years in music industry, online for 27. Also bylines for: Metal Hammer, Prog Magazine, The Word Magazine, The Guardian, The New Statesman, Saga, Music365. Former Head of Music at Xfm Radio, A&R at Fiction Records, early blogger, ex-roadie, published author. He once appeared in a Cure video dressed as a cowboy, has flown on the Goodyear Blimp, and thinks any situation can be improved by the introduction of cats. Favourite Serbian trumpeter: Dejan Petrović.

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