Fuck Buttons “The Red Wing”

31 May 2013 — Trey Reis

There’s a lot of anticipation involved when it comes to Fuck Buttons. Every second of their music chugs along until the next distorted hammer drops, shaking the entire foundation any one of their songs has spent the previous 6+ minutes building. So, it just makes sense that when word gets out of an upcoming release from the UK duo, all we ever get is a three minute clip, frequently cutting the band’s long, intense build-ups down to a matter of seconds, and stripping any kind of aural peak out entirely. It’s like arriving at a neck-and-neck basketball game in the third quarter and leaving a few minutes into the fourth. How did we get here, and what comes next?

Listen to an abridged “The Red Wing” below and prepare yourself for the band’s new full-length, Slow Focus, out on July 23.