zzzzz seconded
― rizzx, Sunday, 23 March 2008 12:09 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
Is the name a Gertrude Stein reference? :P
― Mordy, Sunday, 23 March 2008 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
I want more twee noise
― Savannah Smiles, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
BLACK DICE SHOULD SMASH FUCK BUTTONS
― brightscreamer, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Black Dice >>> M83 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Fuck Buttons
― stephen, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 01:22 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm thinking of going to see them tonight, despite all the negative comments on this thread.
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 15 May 2008 08:28 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
how were they live, baaderonixx, anyway?
― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 22 June 2008 12:41 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
Looking forward to seeing them at Green Man festival, of all places.
― Neil S, Sunday, 22 June 2008 13:18 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
Fuck Buttons = Noise Coldplay
― brightscreamer, Sunday, 22 June 2008 23:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Well done for conveying so much intense self-satisfaction with a four-word post
― DJ Mencap, Monday, 23 June 2008 06:53 (fifteen years ago) link
-- 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 (fifteen years ago) link
so RONG it's not even funny.
― stephen, Monday, 23 June 2008 08:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I dig that comparison
― rizzx, Monday, 23 June 2008 09:00 (fifteen years ago) link
DJ Mencap Mister Craig stephen = Noise Coldplay
― brightscreamer, Monday, 23 June 2008 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
are you drunk?
― stephen, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 00:14 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 07:24 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 28 June 2008 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
What are you talking about? Black Dice are great. But they are no Fuck Buttons. Or maybe that's the other way around...
― ilxor, Friday, 3 October 2008 05:02 (fifteen years ago) link
― 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.
― milling through the grinder, grinding through the mill (S-), Friday, 3 October 2008 05:25 (fifteen years ago) link
i think he means, which black dice album should he check out if he likes slfpe.
get creature comforts and broken ear record.
― Creeztophair, Friday, 3 October 2008 05:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Andrew Hung Fuck Buttons are writing. 17 minutes ago - Comment
J***** S****** at 16:38, on 10 Februaryu actually write that stuff? i thought it just came to u in an acid trip
John Cummings at 16:40, on 10 Februarymore writing, less facebook updating.
^mild indie lulz
― am I selling cardamom or am I selling thyme (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― SourPatchCorpse, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Video for the new track:http://www.vimeo.com/atprecordings
― Jamie_ATP, Monday, 24 August 2009 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
That's about half an hour too short!
― StanM, Monday, 24 August 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Album's maybe a little bit samey, but hard to tell after just one listen.
― StanM, Monday, 14 September 2009 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link
l34ked?
― spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 08:47 (fourteen years ago) link
y3s
― StanM, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 14:15 (fourteen years ago) link
c001
― spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
this is excellent.. current standout 'the lisbon maru'
kinda samey more ravey less screamy
― LEGOS by Atlas Sound (coming eventually, 2009 or 2010) (Future_Perfect), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 16 September 2009 15:56 (fourteen years ago) link
parody of the ILM thread name
― LEGOS by Atlas Sound (coming eventually, 2009 or 2010) (Future_Perfect), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 17 September 2009 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I like this new one.
― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 19 September 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 19 September 2009 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― the european nikon is here (grauschleier), Friday, 3 March 2017 17:25 (seven years ago) link
yes, great album
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 3 March 2017 17:31 (seven years ago) link
AOTY so far
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 3 March 2017 17:35 (seven years ago) link
^^^^^
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Friday, 3 March 2017 23:55 (seven years ago) link
I opted for CD instead of vinyl
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 4 March 2017 00:49 (seven years ago) link
It just sounds like a soundtrack of Bradley Wiggins last wank before he tops himself.
― calzino, Saturday, 4 March 2017 01:40 (seven years ago) link
I bow down to yr personal experience
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Saturday, 4 March 2017 03:00 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 4 March 2017 11:17 (seven years ago) link
It's probably cos they were involved in that Danny Boyle olympic opening ceremony/travesty that I make the Wiggins connection.
― calzino, Saturday, 4 March 2017 11:21 (seven years ago) link
"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 hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Saturday, 4 March 2017 21:57 (seven years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Saturday, 4 March 2017 22:38 (seven years ago) link
World Eater is excellent. Andrew Hung's solo stuff on the other hand... might be OK if he didn't sing.
― chap, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 11:44 (six years ago) link
dear god that is some worst of 1980s indie voice.
― angelo irishagreementi (ledge), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link
Yeah, wanted to like it, but.... Nooo.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:07 (six years ago) link
World Eater still aoty I reckon. It's a fucking corker. Has anyone seen this guy do a live set?
― kraudive, Friday, 22 September 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
― 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.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 22 September 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
Has anyone seen this guy do a live set?
Yes. it was short but 100% worth it.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 22 September 2017 23:16 (six years ago) link
Didn't totally expect this, but I guess these two new tracks are the logical followup to Rhesus Negative
― silverfish, Friday, 27 April 2018 13:59 (six years ago) link
In Ferneaux, the new 40 minute two track Blanck Mass EP, is pretty amazing.
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 March 2021 23:22 (three years ago) link
Very much so.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 7 March 2021 10:02 (three years ago) link
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?
― ufo, Thursday, 21 April 2022 09:06 (two years ago) link
They have done an album together before.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 21 April 2022 23:57 (two years ago) link
Today's necessary opinion: first album still rules; everything else I can take or leave.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 25 March 2023 21:45 (one year ago) link
Many good things on Slow Focusfor my money
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 25 March 2023 22:32 (one year ago) link
brain freeze, the first track of the third album, is so great too
― StanM, Saturday, 25 March 2023 22:59 (one year ago) link
Love all three albums. A lot.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 26 March 2023 01:00 (one year ago) link