Tender Buttons
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Tender Buttons is the third and final studio album by the British
band Broadcast
. It was released by Warp Records
on September 19, 2005 in the UK, one day later in the United States
. The album marks a turn in the band's sound, featuring a stark, almost frigid aesthetic, bearing similarities to the sound of the Young Marble Giants
, an early 1980s British minimalist post-punk
band.
The eleventh track was named "Minus 3" due to the third loss of a member from the band.
Tender Buttons is also the name of a book of prose poetry by Gertrude Stein published in 1914.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
band Broadcast
Broadcast (band)
Broadcast are an electronic music band, founded in Birmingham, England. Original members were Trish Keenan , Roj Stevens , Tim Felton and James Cargill . Various drummers played with the band, including Keith York, Phil Jenkins, Jeremy Barnes, Steve Perkins, and Neil Bullock...
. It was released by Warp Records
Warp Records
Warp, commonly referred to as Warp Records, is a pioneering independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989, notable for discovering some of the more enduring artists in electronic music....
on September 19, 2005 in the UK, one day later in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. The album marks a turn in the band's sound, featuring a stark, almost frigid aesthetic, bearing similarities to the sound of the Young Marble Giants
Young Marble Giants
Young Marble Giants were a post-punk band formed in Cardiff, Wales in 1978. A trio, their music was constructed around the powerful and minimal instrumentation of brothers Philip and Stuart Moxham along with the vocals of Alison Statton.-History:...
, an early 1980s British minimalist post-punk
Post-punk
Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...
band.
The eleventh track was named "Minus 3" due to the third loss of a member from the band.
Tender Buttons is also the name of a book of prose poetry by Gertrude Stein published in 1914.
Track listing
- "I Found the F" – 2:21
- "Black Cat" – 3:58
- "Tender Buttons" – 2:51
- "America's Boy" – 3:34
- "Tears in the Typing Pool" – 2:12
- "Corporeal" – 3:54
- "Bit 35" – 1:49
- "Arc of a Journey" – 5:17
- "Michael A Grammar" – 3:56
- "Subject to the Ladder" – 3:13
- "Minus 3" – 0:47
- "Goodbye Girls" – 3:08
- "You and Me in Time" – 1:24
- "I Found the End" – 2:05