Fuck Buttons, “The Lisbon Maru” MP3

If “Surf Solar” was Fuck Buttons going completely nuclear on our ears, then “The Lisbon Maru” is the aftershock. Feels like getting your hair blown off your head for six solid minutes and then bathing in an actual pit of lava.



Download: Fuck Buttons, “The Lisbon Maru” (via Flux Blog)

The FADER Issue 64 Free Download

With domestic issues weighing so heavily on every American’s mind these days, it felt appropriate to focus our sixth annual photo issue inward. We started by selecting two cover stories that represent seemingly opposing factions of this country—the values of small town America via Eau Claire, Wisconsin’s Bon Iver and the hard grind of big city life through South Central Los Angeles’ Dam-Funk—and found more common ground between them than most talking heads and politicians would care to know. For the feature photo story, Peter van Agtmael’s plaintive portraits of widespread citizens and Victoria Sambunaris’ landscapes of geological sites along Interstate 80 create a visual dialogue between man and land and will hopefully leave you asking questions rather than giving answers. And because the future prosperity of the US will depend on the dreams of its newest residents as it always has, we focused our fashion story on first generation Americans and new emigres living in New York’s five boroughs. Not to mention our regular selection of Gen F profiles, including Kris Kristofferson, The XX, Neon Indian, Kurt Vile, Kyle Hall and Warpaint, plus interviews with RZA, Janka Nabay, Andrew Weatherall and tons more. So feel free (because it is literally free) to check it all out, and if you make TheFADER.com your homepage you won’t miss our treasure trove of extras and outtakes from above and beyond the issue.

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Andrew Weatherall, “Walk of Shame” MP3 + Q&A

We interviewed electronic music legend Andrew Weatherall for FADER #64 about the innovative production he added to Fuck Buttons‘ crazy amazing new record/teleportation device, Tarot Sport. He doesn’t give many interviews but he granted us one since apparently we’ve been sending him comps of the magazine for nine years and we didn’t even really know. Sweet! Coincidentally, Weatherall’s also got an incredible new album of his own coming, A Pox on the Pioneers, which melds a wry humor with his laser production focus. “Walk of Shame” almost sounds like one, its beleaguered vocals countered by lightheaded guitar and synths. Download it below and read the full transcript of our interview with him about working with Fuck Buttons, arctic travelers and his obsession with Dashiell Hammett after the jump. Also, if you’re in NYC this weekend, add Weatherall’s stint at Club Love to the long list of unmissable DJ gigs going on tomorrow night.


Download: Andrew Weatherall, “Walk of Shame”

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The FADER Issue 64 Podcast MP3

For our annual photo special, we focused our sights on issues in contemporary America through the stunning domestic and landscape photographs of Peter van Agtmael and Victoria Sambunaris. And who better to reflect the state of the States than Bon Iver, who’s attained cult fame worldwide but prefers to live in the sleepy Wisconsin town of Eau Claire, and Dam-Funk, who resides in middle class South Central Los Angeles but whose music inspires funk utopias. Hence the roster of our latest issue podcast, including Family Band, Volcano Choir, Dam-Funk, Neon Indian, Kyle Hall, Warpaint and Kurt Vile, represents all corners of the USA’s urban decay and rural ramshackleness—with the exception of Fuck Buttons, whose new album is so galactic we think they might be ambassadors from another universe. Download the whole shebang below, and don’t forget to permanently blogline us since we’ll soon be dropping the entire issue on you in pdf form, for free—because in the immortal words of George Michael, you’ve got to give what you taaaaake.

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Manic Street Preachers, “Virginia State Epileptic Colony” (Fuck Buttons Remix) MP3

Last night at some ungodly hour, the entire FADER staff worked away to create the next issue of our magazine. Somewhere close to midnight, someone put on Fuck Buttons‘ undeniably epic Tarot Sport, their new Andrew Weatherall-produced record that sounds like a bunch of vampires having a rave in a church (see also: the first two Blade movies). We have never turned out pages faster than while we were jamming that record. It turns out that in addition to their new album, FB have been working on other stuff, like this remix of Manic Street Preachers’ “Virginia State Epileptic Colony,” which sounds more like an outtake from Fuck Button’s debut record, anchored not by hypnotic drum pulse, but ground to dust under the weight of synthesizers and cement mixers and pedal loops or whatever the hell it is these dudes use to make their music. In addition to the Fuck Buttons remix, the Manic Street Preachers have a grip of reworks featuring the aforementioned Weatherall, Optimo, The Horrors and others on a second disc that will accompany their record.



Download: Manic Street Preachers, “Virginia State Epileptic Colony” (Fuck Buttons Remix) (via Stereogum)

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