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Fuck Buttons are a two-piece Electronic music|electronic group formed in Bristol in 2004 by Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power.Kellman, Andy "", Allmusic , Macrovision Corporation, retrieved 22 November 2009

Biography

Hung and Power grew up in Worcester ., retrieved 5 December 2009Santoro, Gene (2008) "", New York Daily News , 28 March 2008, retrieved 22 November 2009 Hung was influenced by Aphex Twin , while Power was a fan of Mogwai . They developed a friendship in 2004 while attending art school in Bristol , and began working together, initially to create the soundtrack to a film made by Hung. Immediately after forming, they played live whenever possible, and soon gathered a cult following. The duo use a variety of instruments including casiotone keyboards and children's toys such as a Fisher-Price karaoke machine. Their name was chosen to sound "playful and abrasive".

Time Out (company)|Time Out magazine described the band's live sound as "adrenaline pumping, ear purging slab of towering, pristine noise…". Time Out (company)|Time Out , 8th January 2008 The duo signed to All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)|All Tomorrow's Parties -affiliated ATP Recordings in 2007, and released a limited-edition 7" single named "Bright Tomorrow", which received complimentary reviews from such sources as Drowned in Sound , Pitchfork Media (who described it as "something like the sun rising over the ocean... then going supernova"), Mojo (magazine)|Mojo (it became their #1 Mojo Playlist Single for that month) and Stereogum .

Combined with an upsurge in reviews of their live performances at the Supersonic, Truck Festival|Truck and Portishead (band)|Portishead -curated ATP festivals in the second half of 2007, this attention resulted in Fuck Buttons being included in many end of year newspaper, magazine and online articles predicting them as a 'Hot Tip' for 2008. These included New-Noise , who said that "rarely have two men sounded so much like the end of the world" and British newspaper The Observer , which called their sound "a joyous racket of swirling atmospherics and percussive gunfire" in an article highlighting them in a new wave of intelligent, literate British pop music.Observer Music Monthly, 20th January 2008

They started the year with a tour of slightly larger UK venues, supported by label-mate Alexander Tucker (musician)|Alexander Tucker . This was done to build anticipation for their debut album, Street Horrrsing , which was released on March 17. Produced by John Cummings (musician)|John Cummings of Mogwai and mastered by Bob Weston of Shellac (band)|Shellac , it was promoted through festival appearances (including a slot at this May's festival) and a North American tour with Caribou (musician)|Caribou . The band have also started to receive some airplay from mainstream BBC Radio stations, whose DJs often struggle to think of an alternative moniker to announce in place of the band's full name - it usually gets shortened to "F Buttons".

Early reviews of Street Horrrsing were very positive; it was named Underground Album of the Month by Mojo (magazine)|Mojo Magazine, who called it "a 50-minute melange of iridescent synths, psychedelic drone, distorted vocals and tribal rhythm". Pitchfork Media awarded it with an 8.6 out of 10 rating which placed it in their "best new music" section. Positive reviews also featured in The Times , The Observer , The Wire (magazine)|The Wire , NME , Rock Sound , Kerrang! , Uncut (magazine)|Uncut , Sydney Morning Herald , and many other music publications and websites. It was also chosen for the shortlist of The Guardian s First Album awards."", The Guardian , 6 November 2008, retrieved 22 November 2009

In September 2008, the second single from Street Horrrsing was released in the form of a 12"/digital release of "Colours Move" backed by an Andrew Weatherall remix of "Sweet Love For Planet Earth". The single was launched at London's Rough Trade Shop|Rough Trade East where both Fuck Buttons and Weatherall performed on Monday 1 September. In September and October 2008, they supported Mogwai on tours of the UK, USA and Canada. A limited split Extended play|EP was sold during this tour, containing a Mogwai remix of "Colours Move" and Fuck Buttons' cover of " Mogwai Fear Satan ".

In November 2008, the band participated with other similarly named bands, including Holy Fuck (band)|Holy Fuck , Fuck (band)|Fuck and Fucked Up in the Festival of the Fuck Bands music festival in the village of Fucking, Austria .

In 2009, the band appeared at the Australian All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)|All Tomorrow's Parties event, alongside acts such as Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds , the Necks and Spiritualized . They released their second album, the Andrew Weatherall-produced Tarot Sport in October 2009. It has been well received, with Rock Sound giving it an 8 out of 10 rating and hailing its consistency ("the continuity gluing them together confirms a genuine full-length article to brandish at all those gun-jumping ‘The album is dead’ doomsayers"),Kennedy, Adam F. (2009) "" Rock Sound , retrieved 22 November 2009 while Allmusic gave it a 4-star rating, describing it as "an impressive step forward for Fuck Buttons".Phares, Heather "", Allmusic , Macrovision Corporation, retrieved 22 November 2009 Discussing it with Exclaim! magazine, the band admitted that "direction is not something we are conscious about because it doesn't fit into our creative process. We just want to keep being content and surprising ourselves".Lindsay, Cam (2009) "", Exclaim! , November 2009, retrieved 22 November 2009 The group are confirmed to play the All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)|ATP New York 2010 music festival in Monticello, New York in September 2010. Most recently, the group served as the opener for the entire duration of the Pixies ' 2010 Doolittle Tour.

Anthony Fantano of The Needle Drop described their sound as "The post-rock of electronic music".

Discography

Street Horrrsing (CD / 2×LP, ATPR, 2008)

Tarot Sport (CD / 2×LP, ATPR, 2009) UK #79, U.S. Dance #9, U.S. Heatseekers #18, Billboard.com

Singles

"Let's See If There Are Any Ghosts In Here, Yeah? " (CD-R Single)

"Bright Tomorrow" (limited picture Disc 7? single, ATPR, 2007)

"Colours Move" (12?/download single, ATPR, 2008)

"Surf Solar" (7?/download single, ATPR, 2009)

"Olympians" (12"/download single, ATPR, 2010)

Remixes

" If I Had a Heart " - Fever Ray (2008)

"Virginia State Epileptic Colony" - Manic Street Preachers (2009)

"Kaili" - Caribou (2010)

"Tornado" - Jónsi (2011)

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