The 2 songs I have heard are pretty glorious.
Has anyone seen them live?
(http://www.myspace.com/fuckbuttons)
― Savannah Smiles, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:44 (5 years ago) Permalink
Awesome live. Killer band.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 18:53 (5 years ago) Permalink
I saw them live about two years ago and remember thinking they were doing a terrible Black Dice imitation.
― Michael Dudikoff presents Action Adventure Theatre, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 20:12 (5 years ago) Permalink
^^
― resolved, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 20:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
NO WAI
Much more blissed out with a bit of a power-violence edge.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 21:17 (5 years ago) Permalink
Saw them live at Truck Festival this summer and they were my favourite band of the festival (quite possibly of the whole year) by some way. Sublime enveloping blissout fuzzdrone. I'm now kicking myself for not seeing them when they came to town a while ago.
The 7" is good but slightly disappointing after their live set and the free mp3s they put up on their website a while ago. I gather they've really mellowed and become a lot less noisy in the last year or so, which I'm very happy with, and maybe the two posters above me would be too?
Also, the ex-tracker-nerd in me was super-excited that there's a video of them (live in my town where I somehow managed not to bother seeing them) on youtube and they seem to be using Impulse Tracker. I hope it really is.
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 21:18 (5 years ago) Permalink
xposted there. "two posters above" = not Whiney, obv.
well, i HATE their name and the tracks they had on their myspace as of a few months ago were derivative swill. i already have enough music like this in my life that those are plentiful reason to ignore them for the rest of time
― resolved, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 21:21 (5 years ago) Permalink
You're doing a great job ignoring them.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 21:41 (5 years ago) Permalink
Definitely pretty Black Dicey BITD although fun with it. Not heard any of their new stuff but they are dudes and deserve to have people give a shit about them
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 22:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
I love the full length album so far ("Street Horsssing"). It's got some really blissful moments on it.
― Savannah Smiles, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 14:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
Agreed. I think I'm more excited for them opening on the Caribou tour than I am for seeing Caribou. "Sweet Love For Planet Earth" in particular is just an amazing song.
― pinkie, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 14:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
only heard one song, bright tomorrow i think. didn't do much for me. the record cover def looks like a bad black dice imitation.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 15:11 (5 years ago) Permalink
The full disc is available to stream at AOL. I like a lot of what I hear, but parts of it are so abrasive that it's almost painful. That's not a criticism, just an observation.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 18 March 2008 15:46 (5 years ago) Permalink
Streamin on PTW this week with a feature: http://www.paperthinwalls.com/listeningparty/index?id=62
/plug
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 15:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
I'm a bit out of touch and don't know Black Dice but this sounds like Mogwai v1.1 to me, though that's a good thing.
― Kaliova, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 17:21 (5 years ago) Permalink
New wave hippies don’t protest They do it on little screens Recovering 90’s ravers People who bought the wrong jeans Occasional psychos They’re mostly just nice folks It’s like a new disease
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 17:24 (5 years ago) Permalink
I like that song.
― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 17:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
It's less weird than Black Dice. Possibly less interesting, in many ways. But prettier, for sure, most of the time.
― Savannah Smiles, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 18:06 (5 years ago) Permalink
Brooklyn Noise with the crusts cut off.
― sexyDancer, Friday, 21 March 2008 21:05 (5 years ago) Permalink
zzzzzzzzzzz
― Tape Store, Sunday, 23 March 2008 05:24 (5 years ago) Permalink
more awful than m83, even
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 23 March 2008 05:29 (5 years ago) Permalink
in pitchfork they described HEALTH as good but not great or anything, which is pretty much how I feel about them. Okay but pretty lacklustre, HEALTH on the other hand....
― I know, right?, Sunday, 23 March 2008 11:18 (5 years ago) Permalink
zzzzz seconded
― rizzx, Sunday, 23 March 2008 12:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
I like that opening song, but agree the pretty melodies aren't that interesting. Not worse than M83 though.
― sonderangerbot, Sunday, 23 March 2008 15:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
Not worse than M83 though.
Those screaming vocals make it more abrasive than M83, but the "ick" factor from M83's last disc -- e.g., that car crash song, the "a piece of brain on my hair" lyric -- is about the same as on this F--k Button disc.
Still, parts of it are interesting.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 23 March 2008 15:37 (5 years ago) Permalink
yeah this is disappointing -- not noisy or pretty enough, a lame middle ground. nice fuzz tone, too bad they use the same tones one each track
― uptown churl, Sunday, 23 March 2008 17:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
Is the name a Gertrude Stein reference? :P
― Mordy, Sunday, 23 March 2008 22:41 (5 years ago) Permalink
A tad surprised by people's reception of them on this thread.
I saw a set by them at SXSW on the advice of my friend Piotr who compared them to Black Dice "but more ravey" I believe he said -- and I just loved their live set myself! Thought it was a lot like a more poppy, ecstatic version of Yellow Swans.
The recordings I've heard since then have been fine, but largely in the context of already being blown away by their energetic, fun/ loud gig.
Very psyched to see them again in PDX next month and hopefulyl we'll get a live thing or something from them on the next YETI.
― Mike McGooney-gal, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 02:54 (5 years ago) Permalink
This record is really straightforward, much more so than I thought it would (could) be. Hardly noisy or weird at all. The 'tribal' bits are pretty lame--like a well meaning housewife at a community centre afro-drum workshop--and the vocals are dogshit but this passed the time on a train journey OK.
― Raw Patrick, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 09:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
e.g., that car crash song, the "a piece of brain on my hair" lyric
I LOVE that song!
― Savannah Smiles, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 09:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
yeah i could see them being much better live. the record just doesn't stack up melodically, texturally, or rhythmically. if you live in portland it's practically impossible not to hear better 'noize music' wafting from someone's practice space just walking down the street (ilx caveat: i'm joking! kinda ...) this stuff is like twee noise
― uptown churl, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 14:30 (5 years ago) Permalink
It just bothers me a bit that their mix of noise and melodies is considered anything special or new, since bands like Black Dice have done that better for years (and moved on even). As been said already...
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 15:19 (5 years ago) Permalink
I want more twee noise
― Savannah Smiles, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 15:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
One of my law partners just walked into my office and saw the first word of this thread title on the taskbar at the bottom of my computer screen. NICE GOING WITH THE BAND NAME, F---K BUTTONS.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 25 March 2008 15:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
BLACK DICE SHOULD SMASH FUCK BUTTONS
― brightscreamer, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 23:13 (5 years ago) Permalink
Black Dice >>> M83 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Fuck Buttons
― stephen, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 01:22 (5 years ago) Permalink
Patchy but the 2-3 better songs on the album are way more exciting than Black Dice. However, lameness of tribal bits = OTM
― baaderonixx, Monday, 7 April 2008 15:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
Saw them in Ft. Lauderdale opening up for Caribou. I think I saw them use a GameBoy, and the one dude used a little plastic kid microphone. They managed to ape Liars, Black Dice, Boredoms etc. I have to say, I've never had a harder time staying for a band's set, and I saw Drowning Pool when I was 16.
For those wondering, Caribou was equally boring.
― brightscreamer, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 04:10 (5 years ago) Permalink
I'm thinking of going to see them tonight, despite all the negative comments on this thread.
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 15 May 2008 08:28 (5 years ago) Permalink
fuck this thread: this album is awesome. as savannah smiles says: if this is "twee noise", then yes -- bring on the twee noise. i like that description, actually; like it just as much as i loathe and despise the idiotic david-keenan-esque "oh no, you can't actually *enjoy* the noise you're listening to" approach.
they're supporting mogwai -- another name guaranteed to have the usual suspects knee-jerking all over the place -- in the UK later this year, i believe. get the fuck in.
― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 22 June 2008 12:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
how were they live, baaderonixx, anyway?
― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 22 June 2008 12:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
yeah this album is great. sure, they're pop-noise (only vaguely noise related album my wife likes), sure it's nothing absolutely groundbreaking, but it's just such a fun album. i listen to this way more than i ever listened to black dice.
oh yeah, and they're good live, and nice guys, too (i don't know them, just met them for a few minutes).
― toby, Sunday, 22 June 2008 13:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
Looking forward to seeing them at Green Man festival, of all places.
― Neil S, Sunday, 22 June 2008 13:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
i take back the comparison i made 3 months ago, now that i've spent more time with the album. it's actually pretty good, falls toward the back of my top 10 of the year (so far). going to see them with Mogwai definitely definitely.
― stephen, Sunday, 22 June 2008 17:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
Big fan here, I think the album is great - it sounds like the music-ification of the sound inside my head at times.
― krakow, Sunday, 22 June 2008 20:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
Fuck Buttons = Noise Coldplay
― brightscreamer, Sunday, 22 June 2008 23:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
Well done for conveying so much intense self-satisfaction with a four-word post
― DJ Mencap, Monday, 23 June 2008 06:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
-- brightscreamer, Sunday, 22 June 2008 23:47 (Yesterday) Link
If you actually wanted to be accurate you might say a Noise Death Cab For Cutie.
Or perhaps you could just listen to them without trying to throw in an unuseful genre expectation and actually enjoy them.
― Mister Craig, Monday, 23 June 2008 06:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
so RONG it's not even funny.
― stephen, Monday, 23 June 2008 08:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
not to beat a dead horse but this album does indeed rule...if you go on long runs or long drives or listen on headphones the pleasure is increased ten fold...
― oscar, Sunday, 22 November 2009 03:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
Saw them last night, good show.
― mh, Sunday, 22 November 2009 03:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
on my way out to see them can't wait!
― plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
holy shit! also, made me totally change my mind abt the new album which sounded fucking fantastic live! Bright tomorrow and ribs out were highlights tho
― plaxico (I know, right?), Friday, 18 December 2009 17:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
I quite liked the record, but live I didn't get it. They need some actual beats or something if they are gonna do the rave thing - their songs kind of build but just don't go anywhere. I mean there are more interesting noise acts and I'd rather go to a proper rave than stand around getting bored to the brand of pseudo-techno they serve up. They're kind of caught between the two pillars without bridging them very well imo.
― ears are wounds, Friday, 18 December 2009 19:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
nah its great when the guy starts hitting the big drum
― plaxico (I know, right?), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
This album is still fucking amazing. Right now "Olympians" is my shit.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 19 February 2010 22:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
good time for it to be!
― eau de humanity (haitch), Saturday, 20 February 2010 02:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
good point, will play at full volume asap
― shite new answers (cutty), Saturday, 20 February 2010 03:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
idk this'll sound like a slam but sometimes this strikes me as a mashup of sts9 & explosions in the sky~
― johnny crunch, Friday, 26 February 2010 03:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
i don't know sts9 but their melodies are straight-up second tier postrock (kind of a big reason i love them tbh)
― call all destroyer, Friday, 26 February 2010 04:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
really enjoyed them live tonight. my ears will never be the same again.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Saturday, 24 April 2010 23:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
The Lisbon Maru. Good morning
― De que estas hablando? (Tannenbaum Schmidt), Sunday, 25 April 2010 09:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
they were good last night but the support band blew them off the stage.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 25 April 2010 10:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
who was supporting?
― De que estas hablando? (Tannenbaum Schmidt), Sunday, 25 April 2010 10:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
Missed this :(
last.fm says Factory Floor was the support, just listened to this free mp3 http://www.last.fm/music/Factory+Floor/_/Post+Is+Here and it reminded me of something from 1982 or thereabouts that might be Death in June.
― broad layering (onimo), Sunday, 25 April 2010 10:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
yup, factory floor who came across like primo TG jamming with DNA with the burundi drummers doing their best motorik rhythm impression. could have been horribly contrived and dated but was the most refreshing thing i've seen live in eons. their recorded work doesn't begin to do justice to how good it is live. it took my best self control to refrain from screaming right through their set. (PS had never heard them before last night).
― stirmonster, Sunday, 25 April 2010 11:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
Factory Floor are far and away my favourite live band of the last few years. I've seen them blow every act they've ever played with off stage.
― I'd take the first Lightning Seeds album and add cowbell (Doran), Sunday, 25 April 2010 16:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
prolly one of my 10 favorite bands currently making music
― eyes without afaik (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 25 April 2010 16:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
new solo album from Ben Powers is fucking fire
― chairfuckers union (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 May 2011 04:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
ysi
― Stone Colde Sylke Freek (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 May 2011 04:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
Free track here - http://www.pitchfork.com/news/42355-fuck-buttons-power-goes-solo-as-blanck-mass/
― abbottabadass (onimo), Friday, 6 May 2011 09:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
Land Disasters sound ridiculously good. I can't wait for the album. Though, it's pretty much Fuck Buttons without the tribal rave beats/screams.
― The Sunspots In Your Eyes Are Actually Cataracts, Mr. Rudich (AWALL), Friday, 6 May 2011 17:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
'what you know' is better than any fuck buttons song
and i love those guys!!
― ｐｒｉｎｔｆ (diamonddave85), Saturday, 21 May 2011 00:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
Land's Disasters is kicking my arse all over the place. Have ordered the album without hearing a leak of it first, which is rare for me these days.
― You're fucking fired and you know jack shit about horses (James Morrison), Saturday, 21 May 2011 09:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
What a gloriously euphoric noisy ambient sound - great + makes me want another FB album soon as well.
― StanM, Saturday, 21 May 2011 09:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
Not hearing what you guys are hearing in that track. To me it sounds as a decent if unspectacular ambientish track
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 21 May 2011 10:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
this album kinda reminds me of a more sparkly bvdub
― ｐｒｉｎｔｆ (diamonddave85), Saturday, 21 May 2011 17:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
Then I must listen me to some bvdub now
― You're fucking fired and you know jack shit about horses (James Morrison), Sunday, 22 May 2011 08:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
Blanck Mass album out today
http://www.rock-action.co.uk/index.php?id=252
― some greenzo (onimo), Monday, 20 June 2011 11:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
This Blanck Mass record really is really fucking great. Really.
― kraudive, Sunday, 10 July 2011 19:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like it.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 11 July 2011 05:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
still need to listen to it
― markers, Monday, 11 July 2011 05:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Find it hard to think of this as something other than eternal Fuck Buttons build-ups. Am constantly waiting, yearning, for the crescendo.
When I manage to get over that my next thought is of Moby...
― ledge, Monday, 11 July 2011 15:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
"what you know" is one of the best songs ive heard all year
― laughing stalk (diamonddave85), Monday, 11 July 2011 16:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
"What You Know" is stunning. A godlike genius moment on an uncommonly brilliant album.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Monday, 11 July 2011 21:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
"what you know" IS stunning (listening for the first time). sort of wish it did something other than oscillate on the table like god's penis, but it does make a lovely noise in the process.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Monday, 11 July 2011 22:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thats all it has to do for me pal.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Monday, 11 July 2011 22:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
"what you know" = (((((((d-_-b)))))))
― just JOE looking at a tornado (donna rouge), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 16:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
anyone know if this has a US release?
― ILX Point Never (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 16:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
New Blanck Mass 12" a-comin', 21 Aug: http://blanckmass.bandcamp.com/album/white-math-polymorph
― computers are the new "cool tool" (James Morrison), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 10:27 (10 months ago) Permalink
Um, hail the Olympic spirit or something, I gather.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 July 2012 20:04 (10 months ago) Permalink
Listening to 'White Math' now and it's fucking amazing.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 19:00 (4 months ago) Permalink
Be sure to get "Hellion Earth" too- no idea if it's going to get a physical release but it's a free download on his Soundcloud, and like a third side of the Software 12".
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 02:36 (4 months ago) Permalink
http://pitchfork.com/news/50720-fuck-buttons-announce-new-album-slow-focus/
― StanM, Thursday, 23 May 2013 15:46 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
Yessss. Blanck Mass has never really done it for me.
― nagl dude dude dude (ledge), Thursday, 23 May 2013 15:54 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
https://soundcloud.com/alltomorrowsparties/fuck-buttons-the-red-wing
― diamonddave85, Friday, 31 May 2013 00:16 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
stoked for the noize
― nagl dude dude dude (ledge), Friday, 31 May 2013 08:41 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Excellent news. I thought Blanck Mass was equally as great as Tarot Sport.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Friday, 31 May 2013 08:50 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Blanck Mass was nice enough, but missed something compared to Tarot Sport, which I thought was magnificent.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 31 May 2013 08:58 (2 weeks ago) Permalink