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Artist: Fuck Buttons
Album: Slow Focus
Label: ATP Recordings
Year: 2013
Genre: Avantgarde
RIAA Radar Status: SAFE
Encoder: XLD
Sample Rate: 44,1 kHz
Codec: LAME
Avg Bit Rate: 320 kbps
Description / Review:
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Four years on since they dropped 2009Õs blistering Tarot Sport, Fuck ButtonsÕ Benjamin John Power and Andrew Hung are back with their third LP Slow Focus.
When Hung and Power get together a unique chemistry emerges and nothing else is allowed to interfere. As Power puts it: ÒThe one fundamental rule remains: we are in the same room when we write. The rest is all fair game.Ó Fuck Buttons have never really stopped writing together in the time between albums. ÒThe actual writing for Slow Focus began fairly soon after we stopped touring,Ó says Hung, with Power adding ÒIf we’ve had any time off, it’s been a few months, so though both albums might seem like two isolated events to everyone else, it doesn’t seem as much so to us. TheyÕre more like snapshots of an ever evolving mess.Ó
Fuck Buttons latest opus is the first record theyÕve produced themselves; itÕs an album that attempts insular resonance. Using repetition to create hypnotic and suggestive states, Slow Focus veers ever more wildly between these parameters; a whole mood-shift taking place to darker, more turbulent evocations Ð something suggested as much in the albumÕs title.
ÒSlow Focus seemed like a very apt title when considering the sentiment of the music,Ó explains Power, ÒIt almost feels like the moment your eyes take to readjust when waking, and realising that you’re in a very unusual and not a particularly welcoming place. ThereÕs a brooding and almost violent theme throughout.Ó The album gained shape at the pairÕs own Space Mountain studio, a place that was once used as a dairy (ÒIt’s actually very isolated from the hustle and bustle of London. With the courtyard outside the front of it, it almost feels like you could be in rural France.Ó) However, itÕs not their surroundings that guide them; rather their connection and imaginations that drive the unique sensory assault we’ve come to associate them with. ÒThe music comes out of the relationship. We’ve always felt that our music doesn’t have a particular sense of geographical location attached to it, they say. ÒWe like to think that we create our own new landscapes, and with Slow Focus it’s a very alien landscape.Ó
As Tarot Sport showed an increased boldness from predecessor Street Horrrsing, Fuck ButtonsÕ third is a confident stride forward again, signified in their decision to produce the record themselves. Quite apart from a duo whose music bristles with an often brazen menace, the production aspect of it was one of cautious learning and a humble desire to improve their skills. ÒThe writing process revealed how production was intrinsic in that process but what we did lack was the knowledge of how to record and mix those productions properlyÓ Hung admits. ÒThis penultimate step – before mastering – was actually the step that took the longest time because we had to figure out how we could do it.Ó But persevere they did, and Slow FocusÕ production fully recognises every textural change, from thunderous viscera to dark techno and slow oozing melancholia, allowing the dynamic nuances to achieve maximum impact. ÒTo an extent, we’ve used producers as safety nets in the past and, whilst it is useful to have that filter,Ó says Hung, Òwe’ve always had a very specific idea of what our music should sound like and so it became the logical step to take that we should do it ourselves.
Fuck Buttons were flung out into the perception of the global public last year when Danny Boyle opted to use their music in his breath-taking Olympics Opening Ceremony in London, after a recommendation from techno veterans Underworld whom were working with Boyle at the time. Now theyÕre ready to face the limelight in full again, with a string of festival dates coming up this Summer, including headline slots on The Park Stage at Glastonbury and at Green Man, then, later in the year, a full UK and European tour.
Fuck Buttons may have been away for a while, but Slow Focus looks set to put them right back where they were: as one of the most arresting electronic acts in the world today.
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[01/07] Brainfreeze (8:34)
[02/07] Year Of The Dog (4:39)
[03/07] The Red Wing (7:49)
[04/07] Sentients (6:25)
[05/07] Prince’s Prize (4:23)
[06/07] Stalker (10:09)
[07/07] Hidden XS (10:14)
Total number of files: 7
Total playing time: 52:13
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