Plastic Anniversary
by Matmos

Plastic Anniversary by Matmos
Year: 2019
Release date: 2019-03-15
Overall rank: 13,273rd   
Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 61 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2019 (231st)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (2,720th)
Award Best albums of all time (13,273rd)

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Matmos bestography

Plastic Anniversary is ranked 3rd best out of 14 albums by Matmos on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Matmos is Ultimate Care II which is ranked number 5493 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 246.

Matmos album bestography « Higher ranked (8,755th)
A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure
This album (13,273rd)
Plastic Anniversary
Lower ranked (23,355th) »
The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises In Group Form

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Plastic Anniversary track list

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Plastic Anniversary rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 13,273rd | 2010s rank: 2,720th | 2019 rank: 231st

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71/100 (from 61 votes)
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80/100
From 04/03/2019 18:00 | #234452
If there is a duo that can boast of longevity, it's Matmos. The San Francisco duo remains in their element with their experimental electro and original for two decades. This year, they return with their eleventh record named "Plastic Anniversary". Each album is dedicated to a sound or a universe. And as the title of the album indicates, Matmos devotes a cult to the plastic and it is not a coincidence if "Plastic Anniversary" is rich in plastic sounds. The crazy brains of MC Schmidt and Drew Daniel (and no one else) work and offer us experimental pieces ranging from the introduction of "Breaking Bread" to glitch-like looks to "The Singing Tube" and percussion "Interior". With Billiard Balls & Synthetic Fat, "" Extending The Plastiphere To GJ237b "and other" Thermoplastic Riot Shield "where all plastic objects are heard. After a crazy first part, the second part of Plastic Anniversary is darker with "Silicone Gel Implant" and "Fanfare For Polyethylene Waste Containers". Like the cacophonic carnival of "Collapse Of The Fourth Kingdom", Matmos offers us a completely incongruous disc ending on the sounds of Velcro, plastic bags and straw. With them, plastic is fantastic.

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Best track: "Silicone Gel Implant"
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From 04/02/2019 09:53 | #234407
Ross Geller's actual album. Dear me, definitely not my thing.
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