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DISCOGRAPHY
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YOUR FAVORITE
DISCOGRAPHY
Visit reubenbutchart.com to hear
all songs in full and to read lyrics.
To get songs visit iTunes
Or to get physical CDs, select
quantity & click BUY NOW below.
Member Since: 8/5/2005
Band Website: reubenbutchart.com
Influences:
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QUOTES
"[A] Great voice and fine tunesmithing....the arrangements are truly hand-in-glove and proportionately faultless."
- Van Dyke Parks,
legendary producer
and arranger
"...an album of small epiphanies, breathtaking enough to have me weeping in public."
- Ryan Doyle, HX
About Reuben’s duet with Antony: "They have an easy chemistry.... [Butchart's] high, tensile voice melds dramatically with Antony's voluptuous vocals, and the strings quiver so delicately they sound like a current pulling them along.... achingly palpable...."
- Stephen M. Deusner,
Pitchfork
“Reuben is a masterful songwriter in the tradition of Donny Hathaway and Stevie Wonder. His voice is uncannily pure.â€
- Antony
of Antony & The Johnsons
“…lush, string-kissed arrangements and melancholy piano lines… [Reuben] has the vocal chops to pull off this kind of high drama.â€
- Time Out New York
“Often sounding like Musiq in his quiet storm sensuality, with a band equal to Ben Folds Five, lyrics that have a unique charm reminiscent of James Talyor's, sung in a voice with the quiet intensity of Phil Ochs, and arrangements that pull from the George Martin and Stevie Wonder songbooks, this multi-layered experience is a treat.â€
- DJ Bill Realman Stella
of WRSU
“It’s an ever-shifting landscape of breezy strings, rumbling bass lines, ivory-soul vocals, and quirky rhythms, all framing tense lyrics that seek – and find – the light.â€
- The Advocate
“Reuben blends yearning, soulful vocals with emotionally deep lyrics…. He has a quality in his voice and delivery that evokes a sense of wide-eyed youthfulness and innocence, as if he’s still looking at the world with fascination.â€
- PM Entertainment
INFLUENCES
Reuben is influenced by classic American pop, rock, and soul.
His heroes are Goffin & King, the Funk Brothers, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Donny Hathaway, Gladys Knight, Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Prince.
Reuben also feels aligned with Antony & The Johnsons, Beck, Ben Folds, Rufus Wainwright, Simon & Garfunkel, Harry Nilsson, Joan As Police Woman, John Legend, Sondre Lerche, Sufjan Stevens, and Sade.