{"product_id":"tender-buttons","title":"Tender Buttons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTender Buttons\u003c\/em\u003e is the third studio album by \u003cstrong\u003eBroadcast\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cstrong\u003eBroadcast\u003c\/strong\u003e under new lights, bringing Trish Keenan's bittersweet and often surrealist lyrics and vocals right at the forefront.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded entirely at Keenan and James Cargill's (bass) home in Birmingham and produced by the band, \u003cem\u003eTender Buttons\u003c\/em\u003e is a far more intimate record than its predecessor. The lead single, \"\u003cem\u003eAmerica's Boy\u003c\/em\u003e\", hinted at more minimalist soundscapes, and this is confirmed on the album. Yet, this serves \u003cstrong\u003eBroadcast\u003c\/strong\u003e rather well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn songs such as \"\u003cem\u003eSuperb Black Cat\u003c\/em\u003e\", \"\u003cem\u003eGoodbye Girls\u003c\/em\u003e\" or the annoyingly catchy \"\u003cem\u003eMichael A Grammar\u003c\/em\u003e\", 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 \"\u003cem\u003eTears in the Typing Pool\u003c\/em\u003e\" or \"\u003cem\u003eYou and Me in Time\u003c\/em\u003e\", they craft delicate backdrops out of guitars and subtle sine waves, evoking in places a space-age velvet underground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf \u003cem\u003eTender Buttons\u003c\/em\u003e reveals a more purely electronic approach, \u003cstrong\u003eBroadcast\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Warp","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50486485647691,"sku":"385203","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/product_id._770828f9_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727609954","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/tender-buttons","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}