Looking for new music to carry you into the sunset while road-tripping this summer? The Butterfly Bull, the new album of Macalester college alumnus Nick Africano is a tour-de-force both passion­ately haunting and beautifully melancholic. Combining the best of folk and soul with sublime sto­rytelling, the album’s contradictory title is echoed throughout, by striking a perfect note between the heavy and the weightless, between groundedness and buoyance, and darkness and hope.

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