Baltimore-based music duo Matmos have been making music since 1997 using unconventional instruments and merging it with conceptual tactics and electronic music. They’ve sourced sounds from unusual sources such as amplified crayfish nerve tissue, bible page flipping and liposuction surgery to create unique sonic textures.
Their latest album, Plastic Anniversary explores the sometimes contradictory nature of plastic, which is at once omnipresent but seemingly negligible, it surrounds us and scares us, and it’s helpful but also toxic. For Plastic Anniversary, Matmos assembled an eclectic and diverse collection of items to repurpose as instruments, even by experimental standards. Plastic horns and drums in the foreground are combined with bounties reaped from the recycling center, ubiquitous items like styrofoam coolers and Bakelite dominos get mixed with other oddities like silicone breast implants, synthetic human fat and a riot shield.
