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Formats and Editions
1. Regicide
2. Jealous Order of Condied Knights
3. Reconstruction
4. Y.T.T.E.
5. For the Trees
6. Stars and Stripes Forever, The
7. Pelt and Hollec
8. Struggle Against Unreality Begins, The
9. For the Trees (Return)
Reviews:
Ever wonder what a night of serious drugging with Ulysses S. Grant and Oliver Cromwell might sound like? Or, more to the point, what on Earth inspired Matmos to make an album centered loosely-very loosely-around the American Civil War and the English Civil War? Likely as not, the celebrated San Francisco-based electronics n' more duo just wanted a good excuse to hop into the time tub with a cast of friends-ranging from laptop giant Keith Fullerton Whitman to Chicago renaissance soundmaker David Grubbs-and whip up a heady, post-IDM froth. Sure, the album abounds with period touches: the charming banjo melody on "Reconstruction," and an utterly spasmodelic version of "The Stars and Stripes Forever," f'rinstance. Buts it's when they drop the time-travel schtick, as on the relentlessly string-driven grinder "The Struggle Against Unreality," that Matmos seem most at peace with themselves.
