Broadcast - Tender Buttons


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Label: Warp Records
Catalog#: WARPCD136
Format: CD, Album
Country:UK
Released:19 Sep 2005
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Leftfield, Synth-pop, Experimental
Credits: Artwork By - Julian House
Other [Management] - Mr Pike
Producer, Recorded By, Mixed By, Written-By, Performer - James* , Trish*
Notes:All tracks written, played, recorded and mixed in Birmingham, England.
Track 11 is named "Evil Is Coming" when played on Windows Media player/iTunes etc but is called "Minus 3" on the tracklisting.

Shipped from Warpmart with free Broadcast button badges - possibly a reference to the main title.
"Tender Buttons" is the title of a book by Gertrude Stein published in 1914.

(P) 2005 Warp Records Limited
(C) 2005 Warp Records Limited
LC02070 / Barcode: 8 01061 01362 2

Scrambling of the catalog numbers on CD and back cover are part of the artwork.
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Tracklisting:

1   I Found The F (2:21)
2   Black Cat (3:59)
    Effects [Feedback] - Roj*
3   Tender Buttons (2:52)
4   America's Boy (3:34)
5   Tears In The Typing Pool (2:12)
6   Corporeal (3:56)
    Guitar [Fuzz] - Tim*
7   Bit 35 (1:49)
8   Arc Of A Journey (5:18)
9   Michael A Grammar (3:57)
10   Subject To The Ladder (3:14)
11   Minus 3 (0:47)
12   Goodbye Girls (3:09)
13   You And Me In Time (1:25)
14   I Found The End (2:05)
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User Reviews:
scoundrel, Dec 04, 2007

Broadcast continue their microtonal takeover of the pop world with their 3rd album, _Tender Buttons_. Their skewed melodies are still in full effect, with more feedback and distortion to haunt Trish Keenans icy vocals. "Black Cat" tips its hat to an acidic Alice in Wonderland, while "Americas Boy" has a keening beauty to it, like Saint Etienne sent through an echo chamber. For those who want more delicacy, "Tears in the Typing Pool," has that in spades, as well as a white-collar melancholy that you dont hear too often in songs. "Arc of a Journey" has a bleeping spaciousness to it that hint at their earlier work, even as the modulated steel drums come in, but overall, Broadcast seems to move further and further into abstraction -- not a bad thing, by any stretch of the imagination. They hold a bit of pop in their hearts, as evidenced by "Michael A Grammar" and "Goodbye Girls." The lullaby-like "You and Me in Time" helps cement their status as some of the more forward-thinking pop bands around.

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