Fuck Buttons
Tarot Sport - ATP
FILTER Grade: 84%

Bristol’s Fuck Buttons rode a tsunami of disorienting ambient noise and nearly ubiquitous praise for its 2008 debut Street Horrrsing. But the brainchild of Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power is still in growth mode—an upward trajectory helped along by this spaced-out mind wipe. Tarot Sport’s tunes don’t really explode so much as they unfurl into synthetic washes of digital soundtracking that undulate with electricity before evolving into narcotic beat castles. “Surf Solar” is an interstellar overdrive whose Amon Tobin-like jerks collide into the destabilized kinetics of “Rough Steez,” which at nearly five minutes is practically an afterthought. Listeners might have better luck on incandescent epics like “The Lisbon Maru” and “Olympians,” which taken together form one 20-minute exploration. If that doesn’t work, musical tomes like “Flight of the Feathered Serpent” and “Space Mountain,” which oscillate between formless exposition and hypnotic beatcraft, impress with their inherent skill. Enjoy your head-trip.