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Tarot Sport
by Fuck Buttons
Added 2011-11-25 10:36:00Z
Avg rating: 8.1 | 343 plays | Post Rock
'Surf Solar' is the awesome lead single, included here in its full 10-minute exploratory glory, imagining a meeting between the power of Kevin Shields-sculpted noise textures with Emeralds-style synth drones and an ecstatic feeling usually reserved for the likes of The Field. 'Rough Steez' bleeds out of that track into a muscular display of torn metal synth-scrapes driven by endlessly repetitive Krautrock rhythms, while 'The Lisbon Maru' focusses on launching a cataclysmic post-rock effort with a screaming crescendo worthy of Animal Collective. The epic 'Olympians' is pure hands in the air business with a delirious feedback loop tapped directly from Tiesto's wildest dreams, and 'Phantom Limb' sounds like Kraftwerk's 'Metal-on-Metal' looped and spooled through an array of alien FX. Which all leaves 'Space Mountain' and 'Flight Of The Feathered Serpent' to bring the dance-mix styled album to a close with a double-drop blast of galloping post-rock-trance ebullience leaving the listener gasping at the sheer delight of it all. An immense effort that should please fans of the first album, and warmly invite many new converts into its wide open arms.
