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‘Experimental’ bands are never going to please everyone; a lot of them seem almost uninterested in being anything but show-offs and twats, and there’s occasionally no attempt to make a connection twixt music and listener. All we get is: ‘marvel at my amazing button-pushing skills.’ And then, suddenly and horrifically, you turn into your dad: ‘that’s not music, that’s noise!’ Despite the post-watershed name, Fuck Buttons have always been a more subtle and meditative addition to the experimental c…

“Why don't you go down, old Hannah/Don't you rise no more”, era il canto che gli schiavi neri intonavano nelle piantagioni, supplicando il sole cocente (Old Hannah) di non levarsi più. I Jackie-O Motherfucker riadattarono questo traditional ai tempi di Fig. 5 e ora dopo sette anni da quel disco, si ripresentano con un nuovo lavoro completamente costruito sulla figura del Sacred Harp Singing, una primordiale forma di gospel a cappella. Viste queste premesse, Flags of the Sacred Harp, si ma…