Fuck Buttons - “Flight of the Feathered Serpent”
I’ve had Tarot Sport on repeat all week. I’m tempted to say something bombastic about how it restores my faith in The Album but really it’s sequenced and flows like a dance mix, so long live The Dance Mix! Anyway, I wrote about it on tuneage and used the word skronk for first time in my life, so here’s some synergy:
Well these guys have stepped their game up! Their 2008 debut Street Horrrsing delivered a nice hypnotic mix of noisy skronk, electronic texture, tribal rhythms and other buzzy signifiers. What makes the band distinctive, of course, is that they are not afraid to get epic—see “Sweet Love for Planet Earth”. Their recent release, Tarot Sport, delivers more of their signature sound, but the approach is streamlined and the band makes greater use of electronic rhythms. The album-closing double whammy of “Space Mountain” and “Flight of the Feathered Serpent” is enthralling—part dance work-out and part noise bliss-out, quite worthy of the epic titles.
Favorite track off of the new album.
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