Album Review: Metallic Life Review by Matmos

One of the duo’s finest achievements, this elemental album never loses touch with its human origins By now, devoted fans know what to expect from a Matmos album. This is not a bad thing, for the key features of a new long player from MC Schmidt and Drew Daniel are exploration and innovation, the pair always looking to further their musical acumen. Add their characteristic humour and wit, and you have a rich melting pot.

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Imagine if instead of images and words we documented our lives by collecting sounds. Diaries and photo albums were replaced with audio recordings of objects being sounded - some musical, some otherwise - capturing things that moved our ears and needed to be inscribed for posterity. To organise this archive we latched onto the recurrence of a particular material rather than people, places or times.

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