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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Baltimore-based experimental electronic duo Matmos features field recordings of metal objects.
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- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Electronic, Experimental Electronic
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Jul 7, 2025Despite the weight of its materials and themes, Metallic Life Review often feels lighter and more delicate than some of Matmos’ previous work. Nevertheless, casting their lives in bronze, aluminum, nickel, and steel lends a personal dimension to their music that's especially appealing.
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The WireJun 20, 2025Objects scraped, rubbed, manipulated and plucked from their natural environments for the richness of their attack, decay and luxurious resonance here produce a superbly rich, tuneful and intricately rhythmic music. [Jul 2025, p.56]
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Jun 20, 2025Metallic Life Review is one of their finest achievements, an elemental album that never loses touch with its human origins.
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Jun 20, 2025While Metallic Life Review is both intricate and sentimental, it also sparks, bounces and refracts as all that is metallic melts into cascading rays of sound.
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Jun 30, 2025This album is less obvious in its social critique and more traditional in its instrumentation—for every nitrous oxide canister or cheese grater, there are several more gongs, steel tongue drums, cymbals, glockenspiels, and tubular bells.
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UncutJun 20, 2025Field recordings, ASMR, personal effects and various metals combine to conjure some magical moments. [Jul 2025, p.31]
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Jul 14, 2025Matmos fans should adore this record, but it likely won’t win over those who don’t already make a habit of listening to unorthodox sonic collage that blurs the arbitrary line between music and sound sculpture. If anyone could, though, it’s Matmos, and the proof is here.