Slow Focus

Fuck Buttons is a noise band to the same extent that Tortoise is a jazz ensemble. The label sounds vaguely right, but it's only capable of describing the most superficial aspects of the self-contained, highly coherent music made by Benjamin John Power and Andrew Hung. The London duo doesn't make a secret of its epic ambitions, as Fuck Buttons conveys a sense of high drama that is distinctly absent from the labyrinthine underground world of, say, Prurient; it's telling that two cut...

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