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Ahead of the release of his new record as The Soft Pink Truth, Drew Daniel talks to Kristen Gallerneaux about the influences behind Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? and rethinking ambient music
With their new album Plastic Anniversary, the exploratory sonic duo marks 25 years of life and work via the use and abuse of petroleum products. Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett called up Matmos member Drew Daniel to ask about it all
When we asked Drew Daniel of Matmos and The Soft Pink Truth for his Baker's Dozen, he refused - and with good reasons. Thirteen of them, to be precise. Here Daniel presents them in an essay titled A Rant Against The Quantification Of Aesthetics. All photographs courtesy of Drew Daniel
Matmos' excellent new album The Marriage Of True Minds finds the duo delving gleefully into experiments in psychic projection and "very large green triangles". At its core, however, lies simple and tangible human connection, they tell Angus Finlayson