Put this album in your headphones while going for a walk, and everything you see will have a decidedly more sinister look to it.

It’s irritatingly lazy to write off A Place To Bury Strang ers as a n oise band. Yes, it’s true that guitarist/singer Oliver Ackerman owns a guitar effects company, so it’s probably inevitable that discussion of the band would center on his Death By Audio fuzz boxes. Unfortunately, particularly as they’ve dialed down the distortion a little bit on Exploding Head, that misses the point almost completely. Unlike fellow noisemongers such as HEALTH, A Place To Bury Strangers construct their songs around real melodies and chord progressions, with the …

For those out of the loop, Fuck Buttons is a noise rock group whose sound has been described as “a soundtrack to the final party before the apocalypse.” Their debut album Street Horrrsing was heavily played last year here on WCWM, and the same is sure to come when their newest album, Tarot Sport, drops on October 20th. In preparation for the mass hysteria and unbridled joy that awaits the release of Tarot Sport, I recently did a short interview with the two masterminds behind Fuck Buttons, Benjamin John Power and Andrew Hung.
Your new material seems to be a lot more accessible, and even in some parts dance oriented. Was that a conscious shift or something that just came naturally?
Benjamin John Power: Choosing a direction, or a path to follow is something we would never consciously plan before we write new material.
Andrew Hung: I think I’d find it difficult to define accessibility in relation to us. I’d consider our music to still be pretty unpalatable for the…