Album Review: Fuck Buttons / ‘Tarot Sport’ (ATP)
Jan 28th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Big Shot Magazine, Music Reviews
Listening to Tarot Sport is like taking a journey back in time to Warp Records’ heyday in the mid-‘90s heyday. There’s really nothing like the classic Warp Records sound, and although Fuck Buttons’ sophomore release is on ATP, it fits in perfectly with the aforementioned label’s aesthetic. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that Two Lone Swordsmen/Sabres Of Paradise/all-around-legend Andrew Weatherall produced this album. Lead single “Surf Solar” is the perfect match of beautiful and abrasive, and a good representation of what Tarot Sport is all about. Sci-fi bleeps, vocal chops, and 4/4 beats are pulverized into a wall of white noise that’s truly epic. “Rough Steez” reminds one of a factory assembly line: metallic, robotic, and orderly but with something gritty at the core. Both “The Lisbon Maru” and “Olympians” are warm and soundtrack-y, and reminiscent of some of Moby’s older Voodoo Child productions, while as the title might indicate, “Phantom Limb” is an IDM mash. “Space Mountain” and “Flight Of The Feathered Serpent” close out the album; though only seven tracks in length, it packs much more of a punch than anything else currently on the market.
Justin Kleinfeld
File under: Apse, M83, Pivot
