Experimental Electronic Music
My perspective on metallic matters was recently alchemized once again with some new prima materia from Matmos, and their song “The Rust Belt” released with clanging banger of a video by Jack Colbert ahead of the June 20th release of their newest album Metallic Life Review and summer tour.
Matmos are masters of the electronic concept album, and I was delighted that the archive in question is the plethora of “sound” albums released by the maverick founder of Folkways, Moses Asch. Beyond the concept, these glitchy, rhythmic, noisy, textural pieces are a joy to listen to and behold.
Instead, sequenced gates let in small bits of unsculpted, rough machine sound; short glimpses into windows of very chaotic places. While this technique may sound […]
While sadly no human flesh was on show at XOYO, the return of Matmos to London was a highly condensed vision of nearly three years […]
