The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast
Released: May 9, 2006
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Released: May 9, 2006
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More like a portable gallery installation than a mere album, Matmos' The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast is a collection of fascinating, fractured audio and visual portraits of ten prominent...
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The Civil War
Released: Sep 23, 2003
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Released: Sep 23, 2003
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Once again, Matmos reinvents itself on The Civil War, an album whose subtly oxymoronic title suggests the inherent contradictions of its sound. While the duo sang the body electronic on A Chance to...
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A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure
Released: Mar 13, 2001
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Released: Mar 13, 2001
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Watching plastic surgery procedures requires a brave heart (or at least a strong stomach): It's equally chilling and fascinating to see the body cut open, invaded, and manipulated with cold...
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Quasi-Objects
Released: Jun 16, 1998
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Released: Jun 16, 1998
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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...
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The West
Released: 1999
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Released: 1999
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More of a free-form compositional whole than a collection of songs, The West finds the Matmos duo inviting over friends of all persuasions for a freewheeling acoustics and electronics jamboree....
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Matmos
Released: 1997
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Released: 1997
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Matmos is an extended meditation on the musical potential of weird noises. Integrating a range of distinctly non-musical sound sources (hair, breath, crustacean brain activity, etc.) into familiar...
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