{"id":2074,"date":"2009-10-12T00:49:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T07:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/10\/fuck-buttons-ready-to-pop\/"},"modified":"2009-10-12T14:55:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T21:55:48","slug":"fuck-buttons-ready-to-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/12\/fuck-buttons-ready-to-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuck Buttons Ready To Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2009\/sep\/30\/fuck-buttons-review\" target=\"_blank\">from The Guardian UK<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px; font-size: 12px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: #d1008b; border-bottom-color: #d1008b; border-left-color: #d1008b; font-family: georgia, serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 2.166em; line-height: 1.154; width: 460px; border-top-width: 0px; border-top-style: initial; padding: 0px\">Fuck Buttons<\/h1>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #666666; font-size: 1.333em; line-height: 1.25; width: 460px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" id=\"stand-first\">Brighton Audio<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\" face=\"arial, sans-serif\" color=\"#333333\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 9px; line-height: 15px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"arial, sans-serif\" color=\"#333333\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px\">\n<li style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-weight: normal; display: block; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"byline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/alexispetridis\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" name=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{Alexis Petridis}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}\" title=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{Alexis Petridis}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}\">Alexis Petridis<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" name=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{guardian.co.uk}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}\" title=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{guardian.co.uk}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}\">guardian.co.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px\">There is a crackle of anticipation in the air before Fuck Buttons take the stage: the sense that the audience feel they&#8217;re about to see a band on the brink of great things. You couldn&#8217;t accuse the Bristol duo of relentlessly chasing success.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzinelectronicmusic.co.uk\/fuck-buttons-single-review-surf-solar\/629\" title=\"image lifted from Buzzin Electronic Music\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buzzinelectronicmusic.co.uk\/files\/2009\/08\/fuck-buttons-surf-solar.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"225\" width=\"225\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px\">If you call yourselves Fuck Buttons, it&#8217;s pretty clear you&#8217;re not angling for a guest appearance on The X Factor \u2013 a state of affairs further underlined by their sound, which, on their debut album Street Horrrsing, offered that legendarily radio-friendly cocktail of distorted synthesisers, tribal drums and screaming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px\">And yet there&#8217;s a genuine sense of momentum building behind their forthcoming second album, Tarot Sport, on which producer Andy Weatherall seems to have removed some of its predecessors&#8217; less palatable edges, without sacrificing any of the band&#8217;s visceral power. They play almost all of it tonight, and it sounds hugely impressive: vast, corrosive swathes of electronic sound, weirdly euphoric melodies and clattering rhythms, somewhere between dance music and an electronic take on Mogwai&#8217;s surging power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px\">Standing at opposite ends of a table laden with equipment and old children&#8217;s toys, Andrew Hung and Benjamin Power look utterly lost in the music they&#8217;re creating, their heads bobbing frantically, their eyes locked in contact, though it would be wrong to say there&#8217;s nothing in the way of performance: Power has developed an impressively baroque way of playing a drum, with much elaborate flinging of the arms skyward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px\">[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2009\/sep\/30\/fuck-buttons-review\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian UK Fuck Buttons Brighton Audio Alexis Petridis,\u00a0guardian.co.uk There is a crackle of anticipation in the air before Fuck Buttons take the stage: the sense that the audience feel they&#8217;re about to see a band on the brink of great things. 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