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Supreme Balloon

by: Matmos

Release Date May 12, 2008

Be forewarned: Matmos has embraced synth, and every burp, blip and wave that comes with it.

In fact, their latest album "Supreme Balloon" is inflated to maximum with endless quantities of synth, and they seem pretty determined to use every last shred. And while not as endearing as their more organic past work, it does sound like a maddened musician was let loose in a room full of computers -- wonky, silly and lightheartedly spacey.

It opens with a weird fluttery noise... which turns out to be a beat that runs throughout "Rainbow Flag." No real vocals here -- just a weird frolicksome beat that sounds like a video game in the middle of an acid trip. About two-thirds of the way through, some little trippy fairy ... Read More:

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Matmos

by: Matmos

Release Date May 17, 1999
An album with something for every fan of left-field electronica with tracks running from the inane (a track made from the amplified synapse of a crayfish?), through the strangely funky and almost danceable. Somehow my personal preference is actually the final third of the album, however, where several tracks blend together into a chilled out sequence of drone-based - yet still engaging - near ambient pieces. This kind of range and also the sheer inventiveness on display moves this album beyond the often monotone glitches, or beat-driven one-dimensionality of much of the electronic scene. At times the bizarre sounds pouring from the speakers may make you wonder if imagination perhaps has its limits. Such doubts will vanish, however, as unlike ... Read More:

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The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast

by: Matmos

Release Date May 08, 2006
An album with something for every fan of left-field electronica with tracks running from the inane (a track made from the amplified synapse of a crayfish?), through the strangely funky and almost danceable. Somehow my personal preference is actually the final third of the album, however, where several tracks blend together into a chilled out sequence of drone-based - yet still engaging - near ambient pieces. This kind of range and also the sheer inventiveness on display moves this album beyond the often monotone glitches, or beat-driven one-dimensionality of much of the electronic scene. At times the bizarre sounds pouring from the speakers may make you wonder if imagination perhaps has its limits. Such doubts will vanish, however, as unlike ... Read More:

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The Civil War

by: Matmos

Release Date September 22, 2003
I bought this album unfamiliar with Matmos, perhaps unwisely, as this is not music for the uninitiated. The more you listen to it though, the more strange and wonderful parts of it seem. Unusually for the glitchy end of electronica, the music is amazingly evocative and narrational, whole epics of time and place – specifically, in this case, civil-war America. Some of the tracks, in particular the twenty-minute suite of ‘Reconstruction’ and ‘YTTE’ are whole stories in themselves, with marching bands, campfires and fireworks tucked into their varied soundscapes. 'Regicide' opens things off nicely with shuddering beats and waves of chimes and static, while the 'Jealous Order of Candied Knights' is the electronica equivalent ... Read More:

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Supreme Balloon [VINYL]

by: Matmos

Release Date June 16, 2008

Be forewarned: Matmos has embraced synth, and every burp, blip and wave that comes with it.

In fact, their latest album "Supreme Balloon" is inflated to maximum with endless quantities of synth, and they seem pretty determined to use every last shred. And while not as endearing as their more organic past work, it does sound like a maddened musician was let loose in a room full of computers -- wonky, silly and lightheartedly spacey.

It opens with a weird fluttery noise... which turns out to be a beat that runs throughout "Rainbow Flag." No real vocals here -- just a weird frolicksome beat that sounds like a video game in the middle of an acid trip. About two-thirds of the way through, some little trippy fairy voices join ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 6
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California Rhinoplasty

by: Matmos

Release Date January 02, 2000

Be forewarned: Matmos has embraced synth, and every burp, blip and wave that comes with it.

In fact, their latest album "Supreme Balloon" is inflated to maximum with endless quantities of synth, and they seem pretty determined to use every last shred. And while not as endearing as their more organic past work, it does sound like a maddened musician was let loose in a room full of computers -- wonky, silly and lightheartedly spacey.

It opens with a weird fluttery noise... which turns out to be a beat that runs throughout "Rainbow Flag." No real vocals here -- just a weird frolicksome beat that sounds like a video game in the middle of an acid trip. About two-thirds of the way through, some little trippy fairy voices join ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 7
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A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure

by: Matmos

Release Date March 12, 2001
So who/what are Matmos? Let's look at the sleeve of 'A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure'; writing far too small to read without an arc-lamp and strange pictures of forceps, stanley-knife blades and a woman with a mutant eye. Maybe that's significant. The back of the cd case has a bit of bacon, two kidneys and a tapeworm (dissected). The whole package design looks like the title-sequence of Cronenbergs 'Dead Ringers', but there's nothing clinical about the sound. Being antiseptically procedural doesn't rile a Matmos.
'A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure' is electro-music, pre-occupied with the clanking and hissing of the (inspirational!) operating theatre. It's easy to deconstruct, deadly simple to lay down it's parts. It's the sight and sound of ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 8
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The West

by: Matmos

Release Date July 07, 2008
So who/what are Matmos? Let's look at the sleeve of 'A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure'; writing far too small to read without an arc-lamp and strange pictures of forceps, stanley-knife blades and a woman with a mutant eye. Maybe that's significant. The back of the cd case has a bit of bacon, two kidneys and a tapeworm (dissected). The whole package design looks like the title-sequence of Cronenbergs 'Dead Ringers', but there's nothing clinical about the sound. Being antiseptically procedural doesn't rile a Matmos.
'A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure' is electro-music, pre-occupied with the clanking and hissing of the (inspirational!) operating theatre. It's easy to deconstruct, deadly simple to lay down it's parts. It's the sight and sound of ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 9
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Quasi Objects

by: Matmos

Release Date May 17, 1999
I bought this album on a friend's recommendation, who also told me that Matmos apparently produced Bjorks amazing album Vespertine. This is a brilliant totally unique album where the artists use a variety of weird and wonderful things to make music out of. For example, Stupid Fambaloo is a track made using only a synthesiser, balloons and a whoopie cushion. One track just uses human bodies, with slowed down/speeded up sounds of coughing, whistling and kissing. A great album, very imaginative and unique.

CD-Charts Position 10
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Rat Relocation Project

by: Matmos

Release Date April 12, 2004
I bought this album on a friend's recommendation, who also told me that Matmos apparently produced Bjorks amazing album Vespertine. This is a brilliant totally unique album where the artists use a variety of weird and wonderful things to make music out of. For example, Stupid Fambaloo is a track made using only a synthesiser, balloons and a whoopie cushion. One track just uses human bodies, with slowed down/speeded up sounds of coughing, whistling and kissing. A great album, very imaginative and unique.