5d. Street Horrrsing Online
Metacritic Rating of 80/100 – Placing it in the Top Albums of 2008 so far
8/10, “Both blissful and blistering...Fuck Buttons carve their own niche.” – Drowned In Sound
Album on Top Rotation - Stereogum
7.5/10, “Fuck Buttons seem to have hit a nerve with the public.” – 30music.com
“It harnesses the power to kill conversation dead...post-rock gone postal.” – New-Noise.net
4/5, “A supremely special debut” – Gigwise.com
95%, “Astonishing, teeming with content, the most fully realised debut of recent years.” – The Line Of Best Fit
“Absolutely amazing, genre-defying.” – The Dreaded Press
“Imagine the Earlies if they’d been raised on Napalm Death or The Beatlres ‘Revolution 9’ if they’d stayed at Guantanamo Bay instead of Rishikesh...just about the most exciting, original, mind altering and fear inducing album of the year.” – The Devil Has The Best Tuna
“Overwhelming, this record just sucks out the atmosphere and replaces it with something altogether unique...magnificence.” – Parasites & Sychophants
8/10, “A brilliant first effort, I can’t wait for more.” – DIRTY
“Hypnotic and utterly beautiful.” – Sound As Language
“Great, absolutely great...Thoroughly enjoyable from start to finish.” – Hair Entertainment
“Satisfies and is entirely unique and stunning in the process.” – Exclaim.ca
“there are moments...when Hung and Power lock into something truly ecstatic.” – Dusted
“I have been listening to [it] on repeat for weeks” – Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
“Behemoth sized sonic monstrosity, leaving you scratching your head at the end of each lengthy track, lost in wonderment of how it even began.” – Mixtape Maestro
“Damaging, repetitive and blissful all at once...” – Buzznet
“Fuck Buttons aren’t pulling any punches...a really good listen.” – Bearded
“Literally knocked me flat on my ass and left me gasping for breath...This is truly, truly amazing.” – Berkeley Place blog
“An unparalleled gem.” – A Limerick Ox blog
“This band is genius.” – Perfect Porridge blog
“FB has challenged the average listener with something unconventional, but very listenable.” – Blog Critics Magazine
“Those willing to take the ride will be richly rewarded.” – PennyBlack Music
4/5, “Beautifully presented” – Helga-Rockt.de
“The band look forward to the future not in fear, but in expansive hope.” – QRO Magazine
“50 minutes of experimental aural immersion....haunting.” – Aural States
4/5, “Something really special...intelligent, singular and original.” – Sputnik Music
“the sheer colossal, overwhelming enormity of it all, it’s like being serenaded by a tectonic plate.” – TM Online
“to make an album as satisfying...takes a special brand of perversity” – BBC Experimental Review
“The six tracks on offer on this record are an incredible test of faith, but if you’re the sort of person who likes their music thoughtful and brutal all at once, it’s one well worth passing” – Playmusic
4/5, “Pushes rock music to its very boundaries” – Junk Media
8/10, “Nobody fucks with the Fuck Buttons” – Crazewire
8/10, “An exciting (and scary) place to be” – Popmatters
“An awesome album” – The Quietus
“One of the most exciting acts of the year” - Self-Titled
Album Of The Week – New Soundbites
4/5, “a truly individual album and the best I have heard so far this year” – Ragged Words
“A work of art...I’m not saying you will find love while listening to this, but I did.” – Tripwire
8/10, “A brilliant first effort, I can’t wait for more.” – DIRTY
“For once, the hype is justified... Fuck Buttons is in the space of one album, the most exciting ambassador of the noise genre.” – Liability
“Folds noise and pop together beautifully, loudly and freshly” – City Paper Online
“Unexpectedly awesome.” – Pop Cesspool
“Easily the most transcendent piece of rainbow-noize to blast off skyward since Black Dice went new age.” – Paper Thin Walls
“A unique achievement and unlike anything you’ll ever hear.” – Everythingrock
“Overwhelms but doesn’t alienate.” – Treble
“Spacious and slow, hypnotic and immersive.” – The Stranger
7.5/10 – Good Riddance
“Fuck Buttons are emerging as a refreshing new voice.” – Audiversity
“Uplifting and devastating sounds.” – Reveille
“Knocked my flat on my ass and left me gasping for breath.” – Berkely Place
7. Bright Tomorrow
“A joyous racket of swirling atmospherics and percussive gunfire from the West Country. Metronomy Eighties-fixated electro prog-pop.“ Ten To Watch, Observer Music Monthly
“Something like the sun rising over the ocean... then going supernova.” Pitchfork Media
“adrenaline pumping, ear purging slab of towering, pristine noise…” Time Out
“One of the more exciting things to happen to experimental electronica in some time….” The Observer
“Fuck Buttons are loud, because oceans are big and mountains are heavy and death is final. Not Because they Hate you” Plan B
“This is music that delivers elation and, although they’re indebted to Wolf Eyes’ industrial decay and Black Dice’s fractured dance patterns, they’re fast marking themselves as a unique proposition” The Stool Pigeon
“a droning post-rock behemoth. [The album’s] six tracks reign supreme over 40 minutes, lapping against the mind like an electronic tide disorientating and drowning the listener” Drowned in Sound
"Their songs are expansive, melodic drone pieces.....that said, no matter how harsh, the songs retain a fragility and a kaleidoscope of hooks" - Stereogum
"their deadly forthcoming LP, Street Horrrsing, is a beast of a record that relentlessly balances fragile balladic melodies with buzzsaw droning and black metal shrieks. It’s doubtful noise will ever cross over into music’s commonplace rotation, but if there was ever a band to campaign for, it’s fuckin’ Fuck Buttons, man." - Exclaim
4/5 review, "key , however, is a rhythmic edge that tip these rainbow drones into full-on euphoria." - Uncut
Flavour Of The Week, “utterly compelling...beauty beneath a sea of static.” – Rip It Up
Song You Need To Download, “Obscene waves of noise” - Spin
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