Album
Tender Buttons
2005 · Electronic, Rock
19 collectors on Gatefold own this
Tender Buttons is an Alt/Indie album by Broadcast, originally released in 2005. On Gatefold: 9 pressings tracked, owned by 19 collectors.
About
Whittled down from the full-band ensemble of <i>Haha Sound</i>, only Broadcast’s core duo of Trish Keenan and James Cargill appear on <i>Tender Buttons</i>. Fittingly, the album takes its inspiration from Neu! and early Kraftwerk, two-person outfits that helped define the influential Krautrock sound. The motorik pulse of those seminal German groups is the recurring theme of <i>Tender Buttons</i>, especially on “Black Cat” and “Bit 35,” the last of which is a hypnotic recreation of early Kraftwerk. The buzzing synths that have always been Broadcast’s stock-in-trade are here more prickly and cold than ever before, yet the icy sheen obscures some of the band’s most gentle moments to date. “Tears In the Typing Pool” eschews the band’s usual sonic tapestry for a simple duet between Keenan and an acoustic guitar, while the album winds down with “You and Me In Time,” a music-box lullaby that nonetheless refuses to completely abandon Broadcast’s taste for unsettling tone clusters.
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Tracklist
- 1I Found the F2:21
- 2Black Cat3:58
- 3Tender Buttons2:51
- 4America's Boy3:34
- 5Tears In the Typing Pool2:12
- 6Corporeal3:55
- 7Bit 351:49
- 8Arc of a Journey5:17
- 9Michael a Grammar3:57
- 10Subject to the Ladder3:14
- 11Minus 30:47
- 12Goodbye Girls3:08
- 13You and Me In Time1:24
- 14I Found the End2:05
Sound DNA
- Alt/Indie
- Dream Pop
- synthetic
- brooding
- nocturnal
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Roj StevensGUITAR
- Tim FeltonGUITAR
19 collectors on Gatefold own this · 9 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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