F*ck Buttons - Tarot Sport (2009) (MP3 192 kb)

Review in The Guardian 2 oct, 2009

Fuck Buttons - or F*ck Buttons, according to their rather prudish press release - are two guys, Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power. Adored by a certain kind of Pitchfork-reading indie fan, their second album's long, trance-inducing instrumentals nod to techno, noise and even the current shoegaze revival. This music, however, creates the Sagrada Família of sonic cathedrals: beautiful, organic and prone to sprout weird and wonderful tentacles of sound. It's not the surface-level sonic sorcery that moves you here, but the melancholic undertow, a sense of sadness that washes over tracks such as The Lisbon Maru, surely a new market standard bearer when it comes to sad electronic songs about sinking Japanese freighters. In this sense, Fuck Buttons have less in common with the overly cerebral noise boffins they're compared to and more with the likes of Ennio Morricone: sonic explorers mapping out the landscape's emotional terrain, albeit one that exists in some far-off galaxy.
****

1 Surf Solar 10:32
2 Rough Steez 04:44
3 The Lisbon Maru 09:19
4 Olympians 10:54
5 Phantom Limb 04:49
6 Space Mountain 08:44
7 Flight of the Feathered Serpent 09:31

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