Fuck Buttons F**k With Your Head

Album due Oct. 20, awesome new single due Sept. 14.

By Blurt Staff

Is it Fuck Buttons or F**k Buttons? Depends on what publication is writing the header. Who care! The fuckers drop their new album, Tarot Sport, on October 20, 2009 (ATP Recordings). The album will be preceded by the release of a single, "Surf Solar," on September 14. US fall tour dates are to be announced.

The electronic/noize/skronk duo of Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power recorded Tarot Sport at Rotters Golf Club Studio in London with the needs-no-introduction Andrew Weatherall on production duties. The results of this pairing yielded, in the words of the label, "an album in which Fuck Buttons continue to refine, craft, explore and develop the experimental aesthetic of last year's critically acclaimed debut album, Street Horrrsing. However, they also take proceedings to another level through a combination of their own ambitious aims and the application of Weatherall's clear-sighted, rule-defying precision and attention to sonic detail."

As Power said, in a statement, "I think it sounds a lot thicker than our previous work--our brains kind of went into meltdown".

The first single to be taken from the album is "Surf Solar," the powerful but mesmerizing opening track from Tarot Sport. It displays an attitude of emotional urgency and striving that is prevalent in a lot of Fuck Buttons' music. It's backed by "New Crossbow."

Regarding the "Surf Solar" track, Hung described it thusly: "Without a conscious effort, this track acts as a bridge between Street Horrrsing and Tarot Sport--it has an emotion attached to it that is unique to us: one of anxiety. It's an urgent track".

Pitchfork is premiering the song, and it's a monster - check it out here. Meanwhile, that's the sleeve art to the single, above.

Tracklist:

1. Surf Solar

2. Rough Steez

3. The Lisbon Maru

4. Olympians

5. Phantom Limb

6. Space Mountain

7. Flight Of The Feathered Serpent