Here’s the first thing to know: The album—all of it, every sound on its single 40-minute track—is played on a Whirlpool Ultimate Care II washing machine. The second thing you need to know is that Martin Schmidt and Drew Daniel, who’ve recorded a series of brainy, witty sample-and-sound compositions under the sobriquet Matmos over nearly two decades, understand with total clarity what a gimmicky project this might sound like, on the merits. But Ultimate Care II was designed from the start to be a less weighty composition than many other Matmos projects—like A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure, which used sound samples from surgery clinics as its building blocks, or The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast, whose songs are each dedicated to a gay public figure, often of some controversy—that inspired the duo in some way. Schmidt and Daniel will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new Matmos feature.
Schmidt: A bizarre, beautiful, version of what an artist/entrepreneur is in U.S.A. 2016, Brian Blomerth performs fucked digital music and often self-abuse as Narwhals Of Sound, operates a profitable “vape juice” distillery (or whatever that manufacture is called), and is a pen-and-ink artist and writer of extraordinary insane visionary perverted … comic books, reminiscent of Rip Off Press vintage Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, and perhaps more specifically Fat Freddy’s Cat. And, for my money, he’s hot as hell. Please peruse, and buy the stuff. Impress your friends, impress your self.
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