Bones in Butter Made Cosmopolis with Three Drummers, Five Months After Songs For A Sane Society
The Belgrade Post-Punk Project’s Second Album Runs 13 Tracks and 50 Minutes on Rexius Records
Cosmopolis arrived on 24 May 2024, less than five months after the Belgrade post-punk band Bones in Butter released its debut album. It remains the band’s most recent full-length. The record runs 13 tracks and just under 50 minutes, and three different drummers play across it.
Bones in Butter’s Going To Cosmopolis is in the playlist below, the title song from the band’s second album, with every article on the group collected on the Bones in Butter profile. Cosmopolis came to RockCharts.News through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news titles. Press play, then read on for where the album sits in the catalogue.
The Bones in Butter Catalogue Before Cosmopolis, From a Remote EP to a Debut Album
The catalogue starts long before the band. Milutin Krašević, the songwriter at its centre, was born in Lucerne, Switzerland, to Yugoslav immigrant parents. Piano lessons at seven did not take. His older sister’s Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel records did, and as a teenager he saw Electric Light Orchestra‘s Out of the Blue tour in Zurich. Punk and new wave arrived at the same time, through the Stranglers, Wire, Magazine and the Velvet Underground.
In the mid-1990s he played in a band called Kasual, which gigged locally and released an EP. Then he set music aside for a career as an English and German translator, eventually at a Swiss aerospace company. He never stopped writing, though. By his own account, composing remained “something I need to do to stay alive.”
After moving to Belgrade with his wife and son, Krašević founded Bones in Butter in 2019. The first release, the EP Love or Fear (2020), was recorded remotely with session musicians in Serbia, Italy and Brazil. A Belgrade line-up followed, and the debut album Songs For A Sane Society came out on 29 December 2023. It gathered singles written and released from 2020 onwards, on alienation, virtual reality, institutional power and the rise and fall of tyrants, while holding on to love and hope. LT1KF called it “one of the best debut albums of the year.”
Three Drummers, One Label Deal and a Belgrade Line-Up on Cosmopolis
Cosmopolis came out through a one-album collaboration with Rexius Records, and afterwards the band went back to working independently. Krašević sings and plays keyboards. Around him, Luna Škopelja sings, Todor Živković plays guitar and Dejan Škopelja plays bass, while Srdjan Popov handles mixing and mastering. The drum stool is the part that moved. Tom Fedja Franklin, Marko Milivojević and Stefan Pejatović all play drums across the album.
The method holds whoever is drumming. Krašević writes by ear rather than by notation. He usually hears a finished arrangement in his head first, then builds it on synthesizers, loops and samples. Next, Franklin and Dejan Škopelja lock the rhythm down. Finally, Luna Škopelja and Živković add harmony and guitar.
The running order spreads its weight. You Just Drowned opens the record, and Escape closes it at 2:06, the shortest track. The longest is They All Shine For You at 5:05. The title song, Going To Cosmopolis, comes 12th of 13 at 4:58. On Bandcamp, the band tags the album post-punk, new wave, gothic, chamber pop, shoegaze and post-rock.
What Runs Through Bones in Butter From Love or Fear to Cosmopolis and Zero Hour
Two of Krašević’s touchstones explain the through-line. Electric Light Orchestra’s Out of the Blue (1977) was a double album written and produced by Jeff Lynne, and it gave the band Mr. Blue Sky. Wire’s debut Pink Flag, released a month later, packed 21 tracks into one record and made brevity a method. Krašević has kept both instincts: the melody he took from the first and the discipline of the second.
On Cosmopolis, that shows in the numbers. Two of the 13 tracks run under two and a half minutes. Five run past four and a half. The album holds both lengths inside one running order.
The catalogue has moved on since. The band returned to self-releasing after the Rexius album, and Zero Hour, out in April 2026, is the first single in a new series of songs written since 2024. That leaves Cosmopolis holding the middle of the run, after the remote EP and the singles-gathering debut and before the new series.
For listeners, it suits anyone who keeps Wire and ELO on the same shelf. It also suits anyone who likes post-punk that does not stay in one genre for long.
From the RockCharts.News curator team: “Going To Cosmopolis is the track we placed, and it is a good door into the album. It lands two songs from the end, after the record has already shown its range, so it plays like a summary rather than an opening statement.”
Cosmopolis plays at the top of this page. Follow Bones in Butter on Spotify, Bandcamp, SoundCloud, Instagram, Facebook and the YouTube channel. The band’s official website carries the full story. Portrait of Milutin Krašević by Christopher Banks.
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