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By: Keiran O'Shea
Date: 16th Apr 08
Release: Album
To Cure: Hypertension
What:
Street Horrrsing
Who:
F*ck Buttons
On:
ATP Recordings
Win:
We have a copy of F*ck Button’s Street Horrrsing to give away. For your chance to win, email win@threethousand.com.au with subject line ‘Swearing looks naughtier with asterisks included. See? F*ckity F*ck F*ck’
Noise music can be one of the most divisive little buggers out there and there can be an extremely fine line self between exploration and outright self indulgence. And so it is with great joy to announce that the F*ck Buttons have produced an album that explores beauty and aggression equally, minus the boring bits. Brits, Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power, have combined the use of gentle melody and rhythm to contradict oscillating static and distortion to mesmerising effect.
Simple yet engaging note progressions, sometimes delivered by organ, are repeated allowing for body and structure to become apparent through the static fizz. The compositions are long but never tedious; sporadic changes of melody shift the albums tension and allows the listener to be kept guessing. It makes for an invigorating approach
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