We are hoping to eventually work on a solution for this when we have the resources to do so. Yet it often feels looser than some of their previous work, allowing them to wander seemingly without a map (although the meticulous chart that details who contributed and when proves otherwise) as field recordings from Tokyo, Belarus, and Baltimore echo the way the music traverses the playful, cerebral, and transporting aspects of their style. Like that album, its a winning celebration of what makes Matmos special, and a tribute to the boundless possibilities of creativity -- especially when its shared with others. “I’m fine I’m fine,” one title declares, but we know that nobody’s fine right now; we’re all experiencing different degrees of not-fine. (Required), You can request being unbanned by clicking. It’s also a test for our site, as we were tempted to substitute a more beguiling image on our home page, knowing that some people won’t click on what seems bland. The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form, an Album by Matmos. Instead of coaxing a wealth of tones out of a limited source -- like the plastic whose marvels and horrors they explored so brilliantly on their previous album, Plastic Anniversary -- these open exercises broaden the duos sound and show how Matmos bridge various scenes on the cutting edge of art and music. ( Log Out /  In keeping with the theme of consumption, the first piece incorporates the sound of a soda can being popped open. Thrill-526; CD). ( Log Out /  After return trips, it all begins to make a perverse sort of sense, which means we’ve either lost our minds or learned to adapt: a perfect commentary on our current conundrum. In terms of ambition and scope, it's one of 2020's most significant releases. Our automated banning policies are not perfect and sometimes too strict, and some IP addresses are banned by accident. This potpourri is pungent. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. (Richard Allen). Did you install a browser extension (such as Realplayer/Realdownloader) that helps you download YouTube videos or other content? An eye wanders, but never blinks. The difference between the soda and the album is that we have no idea of these contents until we’ve drained the musical can. The constant tempo adds an almost subliminal cohesion and a steady sense of motion to the drastic stylistic jumps of the first section, A Doughnut in the Sky, which moves from motorik-driven rock to gamelan to finely chopped vocal collages; the hallucinatory explorations of the second section, Im on the Team; and the cosmic electro-acoustic sweep of the third section, Extraterrestrial Masters. Schmidt. You could have been banned by mistake. Lavender River Karez” features Yo La Tengo and is found on Disc 2; the piece is relatively ambient and dreamy, yet eventually gives way to canned laughter and snippets of discussion. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. The mystical number 23 is embedded in the video, along with a pair of rose-colored glasses. If so, you'll need to disable it when using this site, as it spams the websites you visit with fake requests. Three hours can wear one out; there’s almost too much to comprehend. ( Log Out /  The way Daniel and Schmidt piece everything together is pure Matmos; clever juxtapositions of sound and mood abound at every moment and throughout the entire album. Genres: Sound Collage, IDM, Experimental. The Consuming Flame is fascinatingly egalitarian: While many of the artists who contributed are well-known in their fields, like Lesser, Wobbly, People Like Us, Yo La Tengo, Matthew Herbert, Daniel Lopatin, David Grubbs, and J.G. In its own way, The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form is a fitting companion piece to Plastic Anniversary. You requested a very large number of pages in a very short time, causing problems for our server (this can happen if you hit 'refresh' over and over). The new triple album from Matmos is at turns fascinating, confounding, enlightening, humorous, maddening, timely and brilliant. So what is the duo trying to say? We hear squeaky toys and TVs, babies and broken glass, handclaps and mangled rap. You might have a buggy browser extension installed. The absurd meets the pointed in the perfect “Platformailism”: “We met on Tinder, we died soon after, a poison dinner, no more laughter / Politics, I win, how glad am I?”  Without stratification, all thoughts ~ sensical and non-sensical, demanding and disposable ~ become a stagnant soup akin to channel switching, an indictment not only of our attention deficit, but of our moral deficit as well. “I, Voxelman” promises “more of the music you listen to,” but this is no radio set, despite three early singles. If you are using a VPN, and other users of the same VPN are abusing the service, then you'll be automatically banned as well. Your IP was not banned by a person; it was banned by a firewall that uses an automated algorithm. The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form appeared after a period of intensive and extensive collaboration for Matmos Drew Daniel and M.C. For those willing to invest the time in it, getting lost in the records vastness is immensely satisfying. Schmidt and Drew Daniel is certainly intentional, and likely an artistic commentary. Daniel and Schmidt then combined these offerings into a massive, three-hour-long triptych thats as conceptually rigorous and engaging as anything theyve created during their career. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. It’s also worth mentioning that this may be the most interesting album with the least interesting cover since the White Album, which given the predilections of M.C. Matmos invited 99 musicians and artists to give them any type of recording they wanted, as long as it was at the tempo of 99 beats per minute. Few people have blocks of three hours at their disposal. You (or someone with the same IP address as you) might be using a script or program to download pages from this site automatically. done anything to warrant a ban, this is most likely the case. Released 21 August 2020 on Thrill Jockey (catalog no.