Tender Buttons (album)

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For the Gertrude Stein poem, see Tender Buttons (book).
Tender Buttons
Studio album by Broadcast
Released August 19, 2005
Genre Indie electronic, dream pop
Length 40:34
Label Warp Records
Broadcast chronology

Haha Sound
(2003)		 Tender Buttons
(2005)		 The Future Crayon
(2006)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 76/100[1]
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]
Pitchfork Media (7.5/10)[3]
PopMatters (7/10) [4]
Tiny Mix Tapes [5]
XLR8R (favorable) [6]

Tender Buttons is the third studio album by the British indie electronic 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.

Reception

Upon its release, Tender Buttons received critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews and ratings from mainstream critics, the album has received a metascore of 76, based on 21 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews."[1]

Track listing

  1. "I Found the F" – 2:21
  2. "Black Cat" – 3:58
  3. "Tender Buttons" – 2:51
  4. "America's Boy" – 3:34
  5. "Tears in the Typing Pool" – 2:12
  6. "Corporeal" – 3:54
  7. "Bit 35" – 1:49
  8. "Arc of a Journey" – 5:17
  9. "Michael A Grammar" – 3:56
  10. "Subject to the Ladder" – 3:13
  11. "Minus 3" – 0:47
  12. "Goodbye Girls" – 3:08
  13. "You and Me in Time" – 1:24
  14. "I Found the End" – 2:05

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Critic Reviews for Tender Buttons - Metacritic". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 20 September 2013. 
  2. ↑ Tender Buttons (album) at AllMusic
  3. ↑ Raposa, David (18 September 2005). "Broadcast: Tender Buttons | Album Reviews | Pitchfork". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 20 September 2013. 
  4. ↑ PopMatters review
  5. ↑ Tiny Mix Tapes review
  6. ↑ XL8R review
Broadcast
  • James Cargill
    Tim Felton
  • Trish Keenan
  • Steve Perkins
  • Roj Stevens
Studio albums
EPs
Soundtrack albums
Compilation albums
Singles
  • "Accidentals"
  • "Living Room"
  • "Echo's Answer"
  • "Drums on Fire"
  • "Come On Let's Go"
  • "America's Boy"


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