Grade: A-
Andrew Hung and Benjamin Power of the Bristol-based electro noise duo Fuck Buttons aren’t exactly accessible to most audiences. But despite their oddity, they were featured on the soundtrack for the London Olympics last year. On their latest album “Slow Focus,” Power and Hung have injected some hip-hop and dance elements that help make their sound more approachable to newcomers. Their mixture of tribal rhythms, long-form drone composition and seething electronic noise is definitely not for the faint of heart. Once that accessibility gap is closed, “Slow Focus” transports the mind sonically and spiritually to what it’s like to go to an amusement park melded with a nightmarish robotic apocalypse. It proves Power and Hung can simultaneously sound creepy, get people on the dance floor and create cosmic enlightenment.