event Fuck Buttons
Also Playing: Growing and These Are Powers
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Mon Nov 2
7:30 pm,
Fuck Buttons, Growing, and These Are Powers at Bowery BallroomWith suitcases full of cheap electronics, mouths crammed with toy microphones, and an air of giddy nihilism, Bristol duo Fuck Buttons comes off like Mad Max’s Junkyard Gang, building towering sheets of droning, doomsayer static out of whatever’s lying around. On the 2008 album Street Horrrsing, warm keyboards create coronas of blissful melody that peek around the black hole of industrial wreckage, while pulsating tribal rhythms suggest the apocalypse has a beat you can dance to. And now comes Tarot Sport, a more refined album produced with help from dance-music whiz Andrew Weatherall. Growing is a trio similarly devoted to drones. The group’s sound is all about texture, which figures heavily in extended tracks that space out somewhere between ambient music and the kind of crinkly noise-baths poured by Black Dice. Last year’s more rhythmically minded All The Way may appeal to a greater range.Bowery Ballroom 6 Delancey St, New York, NY
With suitcases full of cheap electronics, mouths crammed with toy microphones, and an air of giddy nihilism, Bristol duo Fuck Buttons comes off like Mad Max’s Junkyard Gang, building towering sheets of droning, doomsayer static out of whatever’s lying around. On the 2008 album Street Horrrsing, warm keyboards create coronas of blissful melody that peek around the black hole of industrial wreckage, while pulsating tribal rhythms suggest the apocalypse has a beat you can dance to. And now comes Tarot Sport, a more refined album produced with help from dance-music whiz Andrew Weatherall. Growing is a trio similarly devoted to drones. The group’s sound is all about texture, which figures heavily in extended tracks that space out somewhere between ambient music and the kind of crinkly noise-baths poured by Black Dice. Last year’s more rhythmically minded All The Way may appeal to a greater range.
Updated 10/22/2009
