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Quasi Objects

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Released
  
June 16, 1998

Length
  
39:49

Quasi-Objects (1998)
  
The West (1999)

Release date
  
16 June 1998

Genre
  
Electronic

Label
  
Vague Terrain

Artist
  
Matmos

Similar
  
Supreme Balloon, A Chance to Cut Is a Chance t, The Rose Has Teeth in the Mo, The Civil War, Treasure State

Quasi-Objects is a 1998 electronic music album by Matmos, which followed their self-titled debut. Matmos created the album's music by incorporating ordinary sounds recorded around their home.

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Reception

Quasi-Objects has received mixed reviews from music critics. AllMusic's Sean Cooper called the album "both an improvement [on Matmos' self-titled debut] and a disappointment", with the musicians letting "the schtick of let's-make-tracks-entirely-out-of-weird-noises get the better of their aesthetic judgement." Pitchfork Media's Mark Richard-San similarly described the album as "too reliant on novelty", and thought that its central gimmick "smothered the music."

Personnel

  • Design – Rex Ray
  • Cover illustration – M.C. Schmidt
  • Sequenced by, sampler, synthesizer [W-30, Sh-101, Mono/poly], edited by [digital editing], mixed by, banjo, electric guitar, effects [latex clothing, balloons, whoopee cushion, body sounds, field recording, quasi-objects] – Drew Daniel, M.C. Schmidt
  • Written by – Matmos

    • Songs

    1Stupid Fambaloo4:55
    2Cloth Mother/Wire Mother5:08
    3Schwitt/Urs5:05

    References

    Quasi-Objects Wikipedia
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