Andrew Hung

Having launched the synth-noise outfit Fuck Buttons with a partner, Andrew Hung previously channeled his energies into an assortment of club-oriented sonic experiments. Venturing into solo territory, he extended his experimental approach to synth pop, evident first in the soundtrack he supplied for the 2016 cult exploitation film The Greasy Strangler and later on the introspective yet unconventional 2021 album Devastations.

Raised in Worcester, England, Hung cultivated early affinities for Aphex Twin and Portishead. While attending art college in Bristol during 2004 he encountered Benjamin John Power; shared enthusiasms for music, film, and visual art quickly bonded them. The pair began producing tracks together—initially to accompany a short film Hung had directed—before adopting the name Fuck Buttons for live appearances. Their performances stood out for an idiosyncratic array of gear that included sequencers, synthesizers, Casiotone keyboards, and assorted children’s playthings. Under that banner they issued three albums: Street Horrrsing in 2008, Tarot Sport in 2009, and Slow Focus in 2013.

After Power inaugurated his own Blanck Mass project in 2011, Hung pursued several independent ventures, among them the 2012 formation of Dawn Hunger—an anagram of his own name—with Claire Inglis and Matthew de Pulford, which yielded the single “Billowed Wind/Stumbling Hunger.” In late 2015 he issued his first proper solo material, the two-part, dance-oriented Rave Cave EPs. Later he spent three weeks generating a spare score for the black comedy The Greasy Strangler, relying solely on software synthesizers and a Bontempi keyboard. That same year he contributed songwriting and production to Beth Orton’s sixth studio album, Kidsticks.

His self-produced debut solo LP, Realisationship, appeared in 2017 and introduced his own vocals for the first time, signaling a departure from the abrasive noise and electronica of prior endeavors. The following year he supplied another soundtrack, reuniting with Greasy Strangler director Jim Hosking on the crime comedy An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn. An instrumental edition of his debut album surfaced in 2019; work on a second solo record soon followed. After the release of the reflective single “Space,” the skewed Devastations emerged in early 2021.