Here's another contest, and you should even maybe get it in time for Christmas if you email me at jdean99 at gmail. The winner will be notified by this coming Sunday, December 16th.
This latest 7" giveaway is a Fuck Buttons picture disc. Featuring two tracks: Bright Tomorrow/Little Bloody Shoulder
Fuck buttons is Andrew Hung & Benjamin John Power, who started collaborating in 2004 in bristol, UK. This picture disc is in advance of their coming release Street Horrrsing that should be out in February on ATP recordings.
It was recorded by John Cummings of Mogwai and that should give you a little clue as to where this is headed. Hunched over laptops they have been known live to play at body shaking volume... full of electronically manipulated sounds, build on steady rhythms, Bright Tomorrow starts innocently enough, with a single kick drum and a looped static sample. Slowly a little melody develops. But it's not until the two minute mark that they reveal their true intentions with this track. Waves of guitars obliterate the underlying dance track and Benjamin screams unintelligible distorted lyrics and the real fun begins.
'Little Bloody Shoulder' is built on a similar simple percussion rhythm, with more massively distorted guitar. It's the kind of repetition that keeps revealing new elements and textures as it goes on. It's hypnotizing...are the samples changing or I'm hearing them differently as it becomes familiar? More ring phased distorted guitars, chords and string scratching, building on top of the primitive beat. Half tribal, half electronic meltdown.
They seem to be straddling the line of the recent dirty electro movement along the lines of health or dan deacon, but combined with something more industrial or thematic, like...well it fits....Mogwai. From the live reviews I've read they specialize in delivering this audio assault at full volume, you are going to feel it. I'll be looking forward to the full length to hear what other trance rock they have in store.
To top it all off, you have Bob Weston from Shellac master both of these tracks and every painful note is meant to played LOUD. A real needle skipper.
If you don't win it's available from parasol mail order.
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