Remember what I was writing a couple of weeks ago about Fuck Buttons? At that time, they had just release their new single, Surf Solar, and I was hoping that (maybe) they decided to throw away the repetition-distortion-vocals recipe and make their music a little bit diversified. That's why I was waiting impatiently for the release of their new (and second) album, Tarot Sport. You never know.
Tarot Sport has seven tracks, the shortest having four minutes and forty-four seconds and the longest ten minutes and fifty-four seconds. It opens with the already known Surf Solar and then continues… on and on and on in an amalgam of strange noises and repetitive beats. If you lay on your couch, your eyes closed, and your mind God knows where, this album is the perfect background. Also, if you're an experimental music fan and you don't actually mind repetition, you will like this album. Same, if you're a Fuck Buttons fan.
However, if none of these are the case, maybe you should skip it. It might seem interesting, of course, to try and decompose the sound in pieces and analyze it, but, as time passes, and you won't discover any new elements, you will get bored (I feel like I said this before). The album makes you wonder why the hell they split it in seven tracks. It could have been as well a single and very long track. Well… at least they changed something, huh? No distortion and no vocals, this time just repetition. Isn't it lovely how these guys crush hopes?
*photo courtesy of Fuck Buttons MySpace.
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