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- Date Released: June 16, 1998
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Electronic Experimental, Abstract
- Label: Matador
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We Say...
The ever-sampling Matmos take a jackhammer to musique concr ète on their sophomore album, Quasi-Objects. Like their debut, the album showcases (and snips and loops and pulverizes) found sounds, but this time with focus and funk. Balloons and a whoopee cushion bubble, squeak and bounce with the 303-sounding bass line of "Stupid Fambaloo," while the duo stretches the sounds of a wet latex T-shirt into every frenetic part of "Latex." Those songs exemplify the act's slapstick tendencies (something that frequent collaborator Björk admires), but the less outrageous moments of Quasi-Objects are no less compelling. "The Banjo's Categorical Gut" is the product of a banjo that's not just picked, but picked apart, and the steadily shifting rhythms of the glitch-fest "Lift Up Your Hat" help strike the balance between subtlety and excitement. On Quasi-Objects, Matmos keep the ideas flowing, as though they're making their (mostly) wordless music for people who hate instrumentals. It's a feat, but then Kid 606 doesn't call 'em "The A-Team of Electronica" for nothing.
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They Say...
The duo's second full-length release on their own Vague Terrain imprint is both an improvement and a disappointment. On the plus side, the material is oceans better production-wise, more thoughtfully arranged, and more fully developed. However, Matmos tend to let the schtick of let's-make-tracks-entirely-out-of-weird-noises get the better of their aesthetic judgement, and too much of Quasi-Objects ends up being little more than flat-falling justification for whoopie cushion samples, stretched banjos, and chopped-up voice. Still, more than a few tracks -- "Cloth Mother/Wire Mother"and "Always Three Words" among them -- are both sonically perplexing and engaging.
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Stupid Fambaloo |
4:54 |
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| 02. | |
Cloth Mother/ Wire Mother |
5:09 |
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| 03. | |
Lift Up Your Hat |
3:50 |
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| 04. | |
Always Three Words |
5:16 |
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| 05. | |
The Banjo's Categorical Gut |
6:07 |
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| 06. | |
The Purple Island |
6:59 |
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| 07. | |
Latex |
7:35 |
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07 Total Tracks, 39:50 Total Length
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Credits
- Kalonica McQuesten - ? // Rex Ray - Design // Matmos - Main Performer // Tim Furnish - Guitar // Martin C. Schmidt - Group Member // Drew Daniel - ? // Drew Daniel - Group Member
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