broadcast - tender buttons

Broadcast are just one of those bands. You know the ones. The kind of band that could take a shit on an LP and make it sound cool. The kind of band that seemingly can't do wrong even when they put out albums that really aren't that great.

Tender Buttons is just one of those albums by one of those bands.

Haha Sound, Noise Made By People, and even Future Crayon are all head and shoulders above this album, so if you're wondering what all the fuss is about, start literally anywhere but here.

The entire album is sparse musically, but manages to avoid those annoying minimalist tendencies by the sheer power of the fuzzy dissonant keyboards they love oh so much and the dreamy shoegazer vocals of Trish Keenan, which float along effortlessly in the background, giving their sound an eerie touch that puts it somewhere between Stereolab's more tender moments and the vaguely unsettling sonic effects of Black Moth Super Rainbow.

Sounds awesome, doesn't it?

Because it is.

Just not that awesome.

So don't say I didn't warn you.