I'm hardly the first to sing Street Horrrsing's praises and I'm sure I won't be the last. Not since My Bloody Valentine's Loveless has anyone so successfully married melody and noise. Loveless blended these elements into a foamy conconction in which bits of songs would condense, float by and dissolve again. Street Horrrsing, on the other hand, keeps these elements separate but operating in parallel. The result is more like, as the cover art might suggest, a heterogeneous jumble of clouds and shards of broken glass. I don't recall if this music has been described as hypnotic in other reviews, but it surely fits. If Fuck Buttons release two or three more albums half as gorgeous, then they will easily outdo MBV's legacy.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Fuck Buttons: Street Horrrsing
I'm hardly the first to sing Street Horrrsing's praises and I'm sure I won't be the last. Not since My Bloody Valentine's Loveless has anyone so successfully married melody and noise. Loveless blended these elements into a foamy conconction in which bits of songs would condense, float by and dissolve again. Street Horrrsing, on the other hand, keeps these elements separate but operating in parallel. The result is more like, as the cover art might suggest, a heterogeneous jumble of clouds and shards of broken glass. I don't recall if this music has been described as hypnotic in other reviews, but it surely fits. If Fuck Buttons release two or three more albums half as gorgeous, then they will easily outdo MBV's legacy.
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