It may be unfair that years go by so fast, but that hasn’t prevented quite a few Irish bands of a certain age from giving Father Time the finger, setting aside their blood pressure tablets for a few weeks and embarking on revisiting music that, all things being equal, deserves reevaluation. First released in 1997, only in Ireland (and only on CD), Butterfly Effect was Dublin band Sack’s second album (the follow-up to their 1994 debut, You Are What You Eat); it represented if not a last gasp then quite likely the final stab at gaining some level of commercial success. That it didn’t can be attributed more to the band being unwittingly trapped between the right place and the wrong time than the quality of the material.

Second bite

Listening to it afresh after over two decades of it gathering moss on CD shelves it’s clear that while many years have passed, the music’s innate dynamism hasn’t altered a bit. Songs such as Climb Mine Powerhouse, Latitude, Latter Day Saint, Talafornia, Nothing Stays the Same Forever and Sleeping on the Floor have the collective grip of a vice and the snarl of a rottweiler. It isn’t often you get to say this about a reissued album (here remastered and released on vinyl, CD and digitally), but time has withered neither the music’s intent nor force. Second bite of the cherry? Why not?

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