
Our shores are in for a tantalizing treat this November, with the UK's experimental powerhouse of electronica, the Fuck Buttons heading to our shores to join the impressive Harvest line-up.
With a sound that can be compared to no other, Fuck Buttons are building a scene all of their own with their avid and growing band of followers.
Forming in 2007 to create the soundtrack for a film created by the band's Andrew Hung, the boys were there to make movie-music, but instead they made magic and gave birth to a scene, through their avid experimentation and refusal to be limited by normal notions.
Hung & Power are artists, music their canvas and their sorted bunch of instruments their paint, they don't need processes or genres, they go beyond that to create imagery and let you explore your imagination, while they explore their own.
With the band saying; "We don't really go through a selection process for instruments, we'll just use any old crap. As long as it makes a sound we like. A lot of the time the instruments are all heavily effected as well. So if we can get any sound out of them that is decent we'll just play around with that. We don't have any certain criteria or anything like that. I think stuff like that just creates limitations and that wouldn't be very beneficial for us.
With the astounding imagery and epic length of each Fuck Buttons song, one has to wonder how the band keep it all together to form the different melodic moments of each track, but for the band this lack of limitations is the key to their epic sound.
"With the instrumentation that we use, we don't have a mechanism or anything around writing a song. We start with a completely blank canvas, with no idea or inflections. Once we've written something, then we sit back and talk about it and see how it makes us feel. In the same way somebody writing a review would, and it's great that we get to do that as well".
The band take a similar approach to genres within music again seeing them as something that would merely limit them, saying; "Genre's aren't really something that we're interested in and once you kind of set that precedent then you're not really boxed in to anything anyway. I don't think we're ever trying to emulate a sound, we like to play around and we like to mess around and just see what comes out of it. We just focus on what we like" said Hung and Power.