Plastic Anniversary

by Matmos

Plastic Anniversary cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 15 March 2019
  • Label: Thrill Jockey
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 40:22
  • Community rating: 3.7/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of their romantic and creative partnership, the experimental electronic duo constructed an album using exclusively plastic objects as sound sources. Utilizing items ranging from silicone implants and PVC pipes to riot shields, they manipulated the recordings into remarkably infectious, bouncy IDM and glitch rhythms. It acts as both a brilliant conceptual exercise and a stark commentary on environmental pollution.

Genres

Descriptors: Leftfield, conceptual, sampling, rhythmic, instrumental, experimental, electronic, minimal, diverse

Tracklist

  1. Breaking Bread (2:27)
  2. The Crying Pill (4:24)
  3. Interior With Billiard Balls & Synthetic Fat (4:12)
  4. Extending The Plastisphere To GJ237b (0:10)
  5. Silicone Gel Implant (4:31)
  6. Plastic Anniversary (4:06)
  7. Thermoplastic Riot Shield (4:05)
  8. Fanfare For Polyethylene Waste Containers (4:00)
  9. The Singing Tube (2:59)
  10. Collapse Of The Fourth Kingdom (5:02)
  11. Plastisphere (4:21)

Credits

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