Matmos, the digital duo whose catalog contains albums fabricated from sampled washing machines and medical procedures, have unveiled their newest gambit: a brand new album composed completely of metallic object sounds. Metallic Life Overview combines the sounds of pots and pans, creaking cemetery gates, metallic tape-deck reels, aluminum cans, and plenty of different metals recorded all through the duo’s historical past and again to Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt’s childhoods. A single, “Altering States,” is devoted to the late Susan Alcorn, who performs pedal metal on the observe. Out June 20 through Thrill Jockey, the album precedes a tour, together with a present at New York’s Knockdown Heart. Discover the dates under.
Different company on the LP embrace Owen Gardner, Swans’ Thor Harris, Half Japanese’s Jason Willett, and Jeff Carey. For the primary time ever on report, Matmos recorded a number of the album—specifically the second half—stay within the studio. Daniel famous in a press launch, “We have now the sounds of plucking the metallic gates round a tomb recorded in an underground crypt, the sound of cemetery gates, and the dying of Susan Alcorn and the dying of David Lynch occurred as we accomplished the album. We had already combined the music with Susan earlier than she handed, and we dedicate ‘Altering States’ to her. David Lynch’s manner of being an American artist was inspiring to us and we devoted ‘The Chrome Displays Our Picture’ to him.”
Metallic Life Overview follows 2023’s Return to Archive and Drew Daniel’s 2022 album as the Comfortable Pink Fact, Is It Going to Get Any Deeper Than This?
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Metallic Life Overview:
01 Norway Doorway
02 The Rust Belt
03 Altering States
04 Metal Tongues
05 The Chrome Displays Our Picture
06 Metallic Life Overview
Matmos:
05-23 Wiltshire, England – Acid Horse Competition
05-25 Glasgow, Scotland – Baked Beans on the Doorstep
05-28 Berlin, Germany – Silent Inexperienced
05-30 Pordenone, Italy – Astro Membership
06-01 Fano, Italy – Bagli Elsa
06-02 Roma, Italy – Monk
06-04 Genova, Italy – Giardino di Mentelacole
06-06 Milano, Italy – Museo della scienza
06-07 Bologna, Italy – DumBo
06-12 Vienna, Austria – Flucc
06-14 London, England – Rio Cinema
06-21 Queens, New York – Knockdown Heart
06-25 Philadelphia, PA – Photo voltaic Delusion
06-29 Chicago, IL – Constellation
07-03 Louisville, KY – Artwork Sanctuary
07-08 San Francisco, CA – Nice American Music Corridor
07-11 Los Angeles, CA – 2220 Arts
07-16 Portland, OR – Holocene
08-30 Washington, D.C. – Black Cat
11-22-28 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain – Espacio Cultural el Tanque / Keroxen Competition