Fuck Buttons: Pretty/Noisy band on ATP Recordings: Dígame Más Por Favor

so gonna happen

well-timed yall. i picked this up over the weekend but just got to it today and damn, it's a hell of an album. i always love it when bands turn a solid first record into a really really great second one. and i'd like to register my approval of this description:

a freight train made of power chord synths exploding angel vaginas

also for an album made w/all electronics (i assume anyway) you can just TELL that they had a blast putting it together

much as i love this album (possibly my favourite of the year) i don't think it's any better than the first one (probably my favourite of last (?) year). less shouty vocals, yes, but i don't buy that there's more groove here.

i'm hearing people who listen to this respond either rapturously or disgustedly; not much in between.

I'm pretty ambivalent, tbh. it's OK, but as with street horrsing, I find the noise and drones and wooze enervating; the beats tiresome.

Really love it, but think the first was a little crazier/better. Also, isn't Lisbon Maru a bit of a retread of Sweet Love...? Definitely one of the albums of the year tho.

my fully-automatic record player scratched the shit out of side b, sigh.

How are they live? I'm seeing them weekend after next with Growing, hoping this holds up well live.

I loved 'em (see above). Seen them twice now and if you get them in the right venue they're LOUD.

just what is so thrilling about the part in the lisbon maru when the synths come in? it gives me the chills

especially on big ass cans with tons of sub bass

i think its that their music is not about songwriting, it is about exploiting the frequency range to its fullest

yup yup

very beginning of this album never fails to recall the 'wonder-inducing', repeating melodic theme from Goonies for me. Like, notions of Chester Copperpot, et al. Track 3 is def the "images from wedding montage" track, without a doubt. Heavy Mogwai-y vibe, etc.

dang, track 4 is even more of the "wedding montage," victory-in-nature vibe.

who likes the new album? i'm debating whether i should get it or not

shut the fack up

cold

get it.

yeah this fuckin rules

this is really great

i should get the album?

sb'd u for that

ok then

You should get it and then listen to it until you get it.

makes sense, will do

"Olympians" is one of my favorite tracks of the year. So triumphant.

oh shit

i avoided this band for a long time because i hated their name (dumb i know) but this is really good

no i hear you; i had their first album for a year before i listened to it cuz of the stoopid name.

its also not really what i expected at all from the 'noise' label people are throwing on it, i'm getting way more of a jarre/vangelis vibe

vangelis and orbital are the main things i get off them

perhaps it's time i finally check out orbital then!

more mogwai/black dice

xp oh FUCK YES if you like Fuck Buttons and you have a taste for kitsch and disco you'll LOVVVVE Orbital.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dera1hWRoIg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCgVaLrTpr4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q25Zx6B5HJA

i'm kinda meh on both mogwai/black dice; something about FB presses my buttons har har more than them

I definitely hear the Mogwai in there. Bits of Space Mountain kind of remind me of Orbital, the thumping drums in Feathered Serpent are pure Underworld though. Such a 90s record!

srsly growing: http://hypem.com/track/663226/Growing+-+Rave+Pie+Only

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...

Saw them last night, good show.

on my way out to see them can't wait!

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

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.

nah its great when the guy starts hitting the big drum

This album is still fucking amazing. Right now "Olympians" is my shit.

good time for it to be!

good point, will play at full volume asap

idk this'll sound like a slam but sometimes this strikes me as a mashup of sts9 & explosions in the sky~

i don't know sts9 but their melodies are straight-up second tier postrock (kind of a big reason i love them tbh)

really enjoyed them live tonight. my ears will never be the same again.

The Lisbon Maru. Good morning

they were good last night but the support band blew them off the stage.