FUCK BUTTONS RELEASE NEW ALBUM ‘TAROT SPORT’ ON OCTOBER 20

FUCK BUTTONS RELEASE NEW ALBUM ‘TAROT SPORT’ ON OCTOBER 20

“tribal, trancelike wonders.” – SPIN

“Long chords drift over oscillating tones and pounding beats. Simple figures build slowly into crescendos punctuated by fiery howls.” – Pitchfork

“a tsunami of tense oscillations and Brontosaurus-colonic tones.” – XLR8R

“sheets of static and melody build methodically over the beat, threatening to punish, but never causing any pain.” – The Fader

Fuck Buttons burst back into action with the release of their blistering 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.

Fuck Buttons, the duo of Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power, recorded Tarot Sport at Rotters Golf Club Studio in London with the legendary DJ, producer and remixer Andrew Weatherall on production duties. The results of this pairing are astounding. Tarot Sport is 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. The seven tracks on the album reflect a new-found complexity of sound and a more layered depth to the recordings; recordings that pushed everyone to the limit of their abilities. As Power says, “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. Hung puts it like this; “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”. As always, Fuck Buttons remain faithful to the idea of hope as an inspiration.

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

TOUR DATES

11.01: Northhampton, MA – Pearl Street Night Club

11.02: New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom

11.03: Philadelphia, PA – Kung Fu Necktie

11.04: Washington, DC – DC9

11.05: Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506

11.06: Atlanta, GA – 529

11.08: Austin, TX – Fun Fun Fun Fest Festival Waterloo Park

11.09: Denton, TX – Hailey’s

11.11: Phoenix, AZ – Rhythm Room

11.12: Los Angeles, CA – Echo

11.13: San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill

11.14: Portland, OR – Worksound

11.15: Seattle, WA – Chop Suey

11.18: Northfield, MN – Carleton College

11.19: Minneapolis, MN – Triple Rock Social Club

11.20: Grinnell, IA – Grinnell College Gardner Lounge

11.21: Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle

11.22: Detroit, MI – Magic Stick

11:23: Toronto, ON – El Mocambo

11:24: Montreal, QC – Il Motore

11:25: Boston, MA – Great Scott