Name: Tender Buttons
Brand: Broadcast

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

warplp136r

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2015-03-09

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0801061813611

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Broadcast

Genre GB

Indie Pop / Shoegaze

Label GB

Warp

Essential

Tender Buttons is the third studio album by Broadcast and was originally released on 19th September 2005 by Warp Records. It harkened a change in style for the band - stripped down to its bare essentials, the music showed Broadcast under new lights, bringing Trish Keenan's bittersweet and often surrealist lyrics and vocals right at the forefront.

Recorded entirely at Keenan and James Cargills (bass) home in Birmingham and produced by the band, Tender Buttons is a far more intimate record than its predecessor. The lead single, 'America's Boy', hinted at more minimalist soundscapes, and this is confirmed on the album. Yet, this serves Broadcast rather well. On songs such as the 'Superb Black Cat', 'Goodbye Girls' or the annoyingly catchy 'Michael A Grammar', Keenan and Cargill work around frail distorted electronics and interferences on which they add guitars, bass and linear drum beats. Elsewhere, on the more subdued 'Tears in the Typing Pool' or 'You and Me in Time', they craft delicate backdrops out of guitars and subtle sine waves, evoking in places a space-age velvet underground. If Tender Buttons reveals a more purely electronic approach, Broadcast were miles apart from the electro glam of Goldfrapp. Their soundscapes have more in common with that of the Radiophonic Workshop than that of Giorgio Moroder.

Tender Buttons

Music GB