FUCK BUTTONS burst back into action with the release of their blistering new album, ‘Tarot Sport’, in early October 2009. The album will be preceded by the release of a single, ‘Surf Solar’, on 14th September 2009 (both on ATP Recordings).
FUCK BUTTONS , the duo of Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power, recorded ‘Tarot Sport’ at Rotters Golf Club Studio in London with the legendary DJ, producer and remixer Andrew Weatherall on production duties. The results of this pairing are astounding. ‘Tarot Sport’ is an album in which Fuck Buttons continue to refine, craft, explore and develop the experimental aesthetic of last year’s critically acclaimed debut album, ‘Street Horrrsing’. However, they also take proceedings to another level through a combination of their own ambitious aims and the application of Weatherall’s clear-sighted, rule-defying precision and attention to sonic detail. The seven tracks on the album reflect a new-found complexity of sound and a more layered depth to the recordings; recordings that pushed everyone to the limit of their abilities. As Power says, “I think it sounds a lot thicker than our previous work….our brains kind of went into meltdown”. HTRK take the intensity of industrial and experimental noise music and smother it with a cold haze, adding gorgeous textures and a deliberate attitude of constraint. Pop structures are slowed to a funereal pace, and all energy is poured into a black hole… in this sonic oblivion they aim clearly for the sublime.
FUCK BUTTONS , the duo of Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power, recorded ‘Tarot Sport’ at Rotters Golf Club Studio in London with the legendary DJ, producer and remixer Andrew Weatherall on production duties. The results of this pairing are astounding. ‘Tarot Sport’ is an album in which Fuck Buttons continue to refine, craft, explore and develop the experimental aesthetic of last year’s critically acclaimed debut album, ‘Street Horrrsing’. However, they also take proceedings to another level through a combination of their own ambitious aims and the application of Weatherall’s clear-sighted, rule-defying precision and attention to sonic detail. The seven tracks on the album reflect a new-found complexity of sound and a more layered depth to the recordings; recordings that pushed everyone to the limit of their abilities. As Power says, “I think it sounds a lot thicker than our previous work….our brains kind of went into meltdown”. HTRK take the intensity of industrial and experimental noise music and smother it with a cold haze, adding gorgeous textures and a deliberate attitude of constraint. Pop structures are slowed to a funereal pace, and all energy is poured into a black hole… in this sonic oblivion they aim clearly for the sublime.