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

Awesome live. Killer band.

I saw them live about two years ago and remember thinking they were doing a terrible Black Dice imitation.

^^

NO WAI

Much more blissed out with a bit of a power-violence edge.

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.

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

You're doing a great job ignoring them.

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

I love the full length album so far ("Street Horsssing"). It's got some really blissful moments on it.

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.

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.

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.

Streamin on PTW this week with a feature:
http://www.paperthinwalls.com/listeningparty/index?id=62

/plug

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.

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

I like that song.

It's less weird than Black Dice. Possibly less interesting, in many ways. But prettier, for sure, most of the time.

Brooklyn Noise with the crusts cut off.

zzzzzzzzzzz

more awful than m83, even

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....

zzzzz seconded

I like that opening song, but agree the pretty melodies aren't that interesting. Not worse than M83 though.

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.

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

Is the name a Gertrude Stein reference? :P

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'm excited! The 3 BM tracks released post the album are much more FB-y

New BM album has leaked, is rather excellent--much more FBy than the first one, for what that's worth

Where'd you find your torrent?

idkw anyone means when they say leaked nowadays but the Guardian were streaming it last week, think you can still listen to that

And this morning it appeared on Spotify. And I see Andrew Hung has a new EP too - 'Rave Cave Level 1', which is a sort of FB-y take on 8-bit arcade music

I am drunk and I'm sat here listening to Dumb Flesh and thinking this was the thing the Valentines did after Loveless. It's kinda making sense. I'm very drunk but this is a really good record.

New Blanck Mass very good on first listen.

cosine

yeh i enjoyed it too
very much of the essence of fuck buttons

more frantic, imo, fewer cinematic arpeggios

Yeah but definitely its own thing as well. Sort of bridges the gap between Fuck Buttons and techno.

xpost

It's lovely

'No Lite' reminds me of the Dust Brothers' Fight Club soundtrack

the opener is tops, then it hews too close to Slow Focus territory for my tastes

I'm late to the game on this blanck mass album but WOW awesome. Dust Brothers/Fuck Buttons midpoint is embarrassing but accurate.

It's great, and so's the follow-up EP with Genesis P Orridge

That sounds way more appealing than the first BM album, which I just thought was dull.

Yep, that sounded more like the midpoint between Fuck Buttons and a single unchanging mildly harmonious drone.

I listened to this already some time ago, forgot all about it! It is better than the first MB, not a million miles from the last FB and therefore less bonkers than I was hoping for. Will give it a few more tries.

liked and voted for d7-d5 last year

new track came out a week ago too
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi8QMSMb-Bs

oh whoops let's try that again

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi8QMSMb-Bs

new album preorder : https://blanckmass.bandcamp.com/album/world-eater

World Eater out today.

Feeling this very much on first listen, pretty wild and HEALTH/Tarot Sport-esque. Probably the first time Blanck Mass really clicks with me and does not feel like a lesser FB.

yes, great album

AOTY so far

^^^^^

I opted for CD instead of vinyl

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.