Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport (Dig)
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Artist: Fuck ButtonsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2009-10-20
Music Label: Atp Recordings
Soundtracks:
- Surf Solar
- Rough Steez
- The Lisbon Maru
- Olympians
- Phantom Limb
- Space Mountain
- Flight of the Feathered Serpent
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Free Music Review: Yet another triumph for Andrew Weatherall
Hit: 5 Stars
After listening to the first F Buttons album, I have to admit, I was skeptical to hear their second effort. I thought the first record was just another ho-hum, glitch-pop effort from one of the numerous groups trying to produce noisy electronic music. However, the one bright spot I found connected to the first record was the Andrew Weatherall Remix of the single "Sweet Love For Planet Earth". Having been a seriously hardcore fan of Weatherall for 20 years now, I make it a point to seek out everything he does, and this mix was far more interesting than any of the album versions. Well, apparently the F Buttons themselves agreed with me, because what they heard made them feel that they could do well to have Weatherall right there in the studio with them helping them twiddle the knobs, and bring his unparalleled creativity into the mix. And boy, was that ever a good decision on their part.
Tarot Sport is some kind of brilliant album. It's a quantum leap from their first album, and Weatherall's production qualities are all over this record, to the point of it sounding more like a Weatherall album than anything else. For those who were around in the early 90's, and loved Weatherall's band, Sabres Of Paradise, you will find a lot to love on Tarot Sport. Making a comeback on this album are disparate melodies, the meshes of sounds, the rolling drum patterns, and the overall euphoric quality of the music. This entire album sort of reminded me of how I felt when I first heard "Smokebelch" back in 1993..simple music, but taken to its most lush extreme.
And that is really what Tarot Sport is all about. It takes very basic ideas & melodies and transforms these sounds into something altogether different. It's not enough to simply sit back and add a good beat to these melodies. Weatherall takes as many elements as possible and presents layer upon layer of sounds, making it a piece of music worth listening to many times. Simply hearing this album once won't be nearly enough to catch all of the many pieces at work here. Another reviewer referred to this album as an "electronic My Bloody Valentine", and I can see this point for sure. After all, Weatherall remixed My Bloody Valentine back in 1989 to huge and famous results.
Tarot Sport is definitely a record you want to listen to from beginning to end. The seven tracks all mix into one another flawlessly, and they are all given ample time to breathe (the average track length is 8 minutes-plus). The albums opening track is hard-nosed and intense, evolving mightily to the closing track, which is energetic and heart-breaking. Once again, though, I can't overstate the importance of the production with this record; it is simply phenomenal.
Maybe I'm letting my love of Weatherall cloud my perception of this record, but I find it hard to believe that F Buttons on their own could have made Tarot Sport sound anything like this without him. Given how rudimentary and average their first record was, this second effort is a massive step forward. It achieves something difficult in that it carries elements of techno, house, breakbeat, and even trance into the mix, and does it all effortlessly. The last track on the album, "Flight Of The Feathered Serpent", flirts dangerously close with the tag "trance", yet it's far better than anything, say, Paul Oakenfold has ever done. I couldn't help but think while listening to this album that both Weatherall and Oakenfold started out together, and Oakenfold has been puking up the same, tired old trance noise for nearly 20 years now, while Weatherall, who has made music all over the spectrum, comes waltzing in and out-trances the trance-master with one full swoop. It really proves that Oakenfold's rigidness is no match for Weatherall's creativity and sense of self.
If anything, I hope people start digging around for Weatherall's other albums, singles, remixes, productions, etc, after hearing this record. There is plenty to find, and a lot of it is better than Tarot Sport. But in his 20 year-plus career of producing music, this is definitely one to remember for a long time.
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2009 sophomore album from the British Experimental duo, produced by Andrew Weatherall. With Tarot Sport, all the indications are that Fuck Buttons are gonna follow in the footsteps of the likes of Animal Collective and have one massive crossover album on their hands. The album is one of unbound possibility and lucid cohesion; a cerebral pilgrimage that refines, crafts, explores and develops the experimental aesthetic of last year's critically acclaimed debut, Street Horrrsing. Tarot Sport takes things 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 that Fuck Buttons immersed themselves in, strived for and achieved with startling results.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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