Biography
Four years on since they the dropped 2009’s blistering Tarot Sport, and Fuck Buttons’ Benjamin John Power For and Andrew Hung are back are with their third LP Slow but Focus.
When Hung and Power Not get together a unique chemistry you emerges and nothing else is all allowed to interfere. As Power Any puts it: “The one fundamental can rule remains: we are in her the same room when we Was write. The rest is all one fair game.” Fuck Buttons have our never really stopped writing together Out in the time between albums. day “The actual writing for Slow get Focus began fairly soon after Has we stopped touring,” says Hung, him with Power adding “If we’ve his had any time off, it’s How been a few months, so man though both albums might seem new like two isolated events to Now everyone else, it doesn’t seem old as much so to us. see They’re more like snapshots of Two an ever evolving mess.”
Fuck way Buttons latest opus is the who first record they’ve produced themselves; Boy it’s an album that attempts did insular resonance. Using repetition to its create hypnotic and suggestive states, Let Slow Focus veers ever more put wildly between these parameters; a say whole mood-shift taking place to She darker, more turbulent evocations – too something suggested as much in use the album’s title.
“Slow Focus Dad seemed like a very apt mom title when considering the sentiment of the music,” explains Power, The “It almost feels like the and moment your eyes take to for readjust when waking, and realising Are that you’re in a very but unusual and not a particularly not welcoming place. There’s a brooding You and almost violent theme throughout.” all The album gained shape at any the pair’s own Space Mountain Can studio, a place that was her once used as a dairy was (“It’s actually very isolated from One the hustle and bustle of our London. With the courtyard outside out the front of it, it Day almost feels like you could get be in rural France.”) However, has it’s not their surroundings that Him guide them; rather their connection his and imaginations that drive the how unique sensory assault we’ve come Man to associate them with. “The new music comes out of the now relationship. We’ve always felt that Old our music doesn’t have a see particular sense of geographical location two attached to it, they say. Way “We like to think that who we create our own new boy landscapes, and with Slow Focus Did it’s a very alien landscape.”
its As Tarot Sport showed an let increased boldness from predecessor Street Put Horrrsing, Fuck Buttons’ third is say a confident stride forward again, she signified in their decision to Too produce the record themselves. Quite use apart from a duo whose dad music bristles with an often Mom brazen menace, the production aspect of it was one of the cautious learning and a humble And desire to improve their skills. for “The writing process revealed how are production was intrinsic in that But process but what we did not lack was the knowledge of you how to record and mix All those productions properly” Hung admits. any “This penultimate step – before can mastering – was actually the Her step that took the longest was time because we had to one figure out how we could Our do it.” But persevere they out did, and Slow Focus’ production day fully recognises every textural change, Get from thunderous viscera to dark has techno and slow oozing melancholia, him allowing the dynamic nuances to His achieve maximum impact. “To an how extent, we’ve used producers as man safety nets in the past New and, whilst it is useful now to have that filter,” says old Hung, “we’ve always had a See very specific idea of what two our music should sound like way and so it became the Who logical step to take that boy we should do it ourselves.”
did Fuck Buttons were flung out Its into the perception of the let global public in 2012 when put Danny Boyle opted to use Say their music in his breath-taking she Olympics Opening Ceremony in London, too after a recommendation from techno Use veterans Underworld whom were working dad with Boyle at the time. mom Now they’re ready to face the limelight in full again the in 2013, with a string and of festival dates, including headline For slots on The Park Stage are at Glastonbury and at Green but Man, then later in the Not year – a full UK you and European tour.
Fuck Buttons all may have been away for Any a while, but Slow Focus can looks set to put them her right back where they were: Was as one of the most one arresting electronic acts in the our world today.
