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

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.

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.

e.g., that car crash song, the "a piece of brain on my hair" lyric

I LOVE that song!

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

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...

I want more twee noise

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.

BLACK DICE SHOULD SMASH FUCK BUTTONS

Black Dice >>> M83 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Fuck Buttons

Patchy but the 2-3 better songs on the album are way more exciting than Black Dice. However, lameness of tribal bits = OTM

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.

I'm thinking of going to see them tonight, despite all the negative comments on this thread.

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.

how were they live, baaderonixx, anyway?

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).

Looking forward to seeing them at Green Man festival, of all places.

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.

Big fan here, I think the album is great - it sounds like the music-ification of the sound inside my head at times.

Fuck Buttons = Noise Coldplay

Well done for conveying so much intense self-satisfaction with a four-word post

Fuck Buttons = Noise Coldplay

-- 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.

Fuck Buttons = Noise Coldplay

so RONG it's not even funny.

I dig that comparison

DJ Mencap Mister Craig stephen = Noise Coldplay

are you drunk?

they should show this thread in schools. Anyway, grimly, in the end I didn't go. As I get older I find myself less and less inclined to go to shows on my own (when I could watch LOST on my couch). I fucked up

this is shaping up to be my album of the year. whatever proportions the drone/distortion/melody/harmony/pop/wistfulness work in, it's perfect to these ears.

What is this Black Dice I should seek out that's similar to "Sweet Love For Planet Earth"?

What are you talking about? Black Dice are great. But they are no Fuck Buttons. Or maybe that's the other way around...

What is this Black Dice I should seek out that's similar to "Sweet Love For Planet Earth"?

― Leee, Friday, 3 October 2008 03:54 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Um, the rest of the only album they've released? Nothing really hits that high though.

i think he means, which black dice album should he check out if he likes slfpe.

get creature comforts and broken ear record.

Andrew Hung Fuck Buttons are writing. 17 minutes ago - Comment

J***** S****** at 16:38, on 10 February
u actually write that stuff? i thought it just came to u in an acid trip

John Cummings at 16:40, on 10 February
more writing, less facebook updating.

^mild indie lulz

New track up on Pitchfork. I'm diggin' it a bunch. Seems like people are divided on these dudes. I like the "Noise-Lite" approach. Make it semi-palatable but still bring the carnage. I'll bet their new record is gonna be huge.

Video for the new track:
http://www.vimeo.com/atprecordings

That's about half an hour too short!

Album's maybe a little bit samey, but hard to tell after just one listen.

l34ked?

y3s

c001

this is excellent.. current standout 'the lisbon maru'

kinda samey more ravey less screamy

Why does your display name imply that the Atlas Sound disc may not come out this year? I thought it was confirmed for next month.

(BTW, very much looking forward to the F--k Buttons disc, too)

parody of the ILM thread name

I don't expect this new one to reinvent the wheel ... but fuck it, I wouldn't want it to either.

Am seeing them in Glasgow next week (as long as I remember to go and buy a ticket). They were epic supporting Mogwai in Edinburgh and I expect great things in a smaller venue.

I like this new one.

more ravey less screamy

Haven't heard the new one yet, but can say I would be satisfied with a subtle push in this direction.

Wow, it really does (in places, anyway). I mean I hate to damn stuff I dig with unfathomably uncool reference points, but first track is like "oh hey, Everything Is Wrong piles on the fuzz-bliss". Just me? Or alternatively, stop pussyfooting and admit it's just as much later Moby, but we can't talk about that in public?

I missed them live last week for some really stupid reason. Maybe I was just scared that they wouldn't live up to the excellent previous occasion.

They were excellent in Glasgow, albeit hampered slightly by the venue's shite acoustics. (Same place I'm seeing SunnO))), which doesn't bode well at all. Unless they totally redesign it and sort out its sound-design, stat.)

Andrew Hung was hanging out by the T-shirt stall as we made our way out, so I collared him and said what a top gig it was. What a lovely dude: he genuinely seemed delighted to meet fans, and appeared to really give a shit what people thought. Huge respect.

Heh, when I saw them at a festival I bumped into him later watching a pretty much unknown band (this in itself impresses me as most bands there seemed content to lurk backstage apart from their set) and told him in rather incoherent terms that FB were awesome and he seemed genuinely pleased and friendly, yes.

I wish I'd gone now! Really not quite sure why I didn't.

This is so great - Flight of the Winged Serpent (or whatever) is an amazing closer. It's the big thumping Underworld-style beat that does it.

Well done Andy Weatherall for introducing them to the concept of a groove.

fuck me

It just sounds like a soundtrack of Bradley Wiggins last wank before he tops himself.

I bow down to yr personal experience

That's a sick burn but I'm maybe 99% sure that Wiggins default choice in that situation would be 'Wild Wood' by Paul Weller.

It's probably cos they were involved in that Danny Boyle olympic opening ceremony/travesty that I make the Wiggins connection.

"Involved" not quite the right word for someone else playing a remix of one of your tracks at a public event. O, how i remember Nirvana and their involvement in my high school formal.

I thought they had actually played at the opening ceremony. Anyways - semantics aside - "involved" "connected" whatever! Some of this sounds like quite hackneyed goth/industrial and some of it sounds like Amon Tobin pissing about with a music app. It is so mediocre I can't even listen to a full track, and have actually tried.

World Eater is excellent. Andrew Hung's solo stuff on the other hand... might be OK if he didn't sing.

dear god that is some worst of 1980s indie voice.

Yeah, wanted to like it, but.... Nooo.

World Eater still aoty I reckon. It's a fucking corker. Has anyone seen this guy do a live set?

It just sounds like a soundtrack of Bradley Wiggins last wank before he tops himself.

― calzino, Saturday, March 4, 2017 1:40 AM (six months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hahaha, this is prime Calzino <3

Great album though, for sure.

Has anyone seen this guy do a live set?

Yes. it was short but 100% worth it.

Didn't totally expect this, but I guess these two new tracks are the logical followup to Rhesus Negative

In Ferneaux, the new 40 minute two track Blanck Mass EP, is pretty amazing.

Very much so.

I'm picking up noise from that fucking truck.

https://www.stereogum.com/2184148/editors-blanck-mass-member-heart-attack/music/

man what, this is a totally baffling combination. how are editors even still around?

They have done an album together before.

Today's necessary opinion: first album still rules; everything else I can take or leave.

Many good things on Slow Focusfor my money

brain freeze, the first track of the third album, is so great too

Love all three albums. A lot.