With their new album ‘Plastic Anniversary’, exploratory sonic duo Matmos marks 25 years of life and work via the use and abuse of petroleum products. The Quietus contributor Ned Raggett called up Matmos member Drew Daniel to ask about it all.
“Drew Daniel is much like the latest album he and his partner in Matmos and in life, M. C. Schmidt, have created. Not that Daniel’s a plastic soda bottle that’s been recycled and flattened and shaped into a record, though that’s one version of how their new album Plastic Anniversary is being released. Instead, simply put: he’s bubbly. Energetic, thinking and speaking at a mile a minute, but with deeper waters moving underneath.
“For us,” said Daniel in a recent phone conversation regarding the album, “we knew that there was going to be a darker ecological dystopian resonance at times, and we didn’t want to be too on the nose about that. We didn’t want to make a dour, shaming album, sonically. I think having a sprightly pop energy and short, sometimes punchy songs, is a way of allowing the kind of implications of, well, how committed are we to these plastic bottles and these Gatorade bottles and these Tupperware containers? We need them right now. But do we need them 500 years from now?”
Listen to Matmos’ ‘Plastic Anniversary’ below and catch them live in concert at Rewire x Korzo on Friday, 14 June. Learn more at Rewire x Korzo: Matmos, Caterina Barbieri.
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