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 (fifteen 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
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.
― ein fisch schwimmt im wasser · fisch im wasser durstig (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 27 September 2009 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Monday, 28 September 2009 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― ein fisch schwimmt im wasser · fisch im wasser durstig (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 28 September 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 October 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck me
― spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), Sunday, 11 October 2009 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
this album
Out today. Amazing reviews across the board including album of the week from the times, the observer and a bunch of others. Great stuff.
― Jamie_ATP, Monday, 12 October 2009 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Disney Hair
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Monday, 12 October 2009 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I wasn't too impressed by their debut but I'm really liking what I'm hearing on the new album. Space Mountain is fucking beautiful.
― Moka, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 03:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't get past the mammoth first track yet, but it's good enough to be top ten single of 09 no doubt
― "Keep Tweeting", Raged Roger The Kindly Hippopotamus. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 03:53 (fourteen years ago) link
These guys really know how to start an album, don't they?
― mh, Thursday, 22 October 2009 04:57 (fourteen years ago) link
This album is fucking massive. Been playing it all week since its release.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 23 October 2009 12:08 (fourteen 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
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.
― 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