Ten reasons to hit repeat.The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast * Matmos * Matador For their fifth full-length, San Francisco experimental electronic duo Matmos pay homage to 10 outre queer legends--including William S. Burroughs Noun 1. William S. Burroughs - United States writer noted for his works portraying the life of drug addicts (1914-1997) Burroughs, William Burroughs, William Seward Burroughs and King Ludwig II of Bavaria--via manicured "sound portraits." Yes, darling, it is Art. But is it Entertainment? Affirmative. "Steam and Sequins for Larry Levan" stitches hissing high hats, bursts of brass, and mechanized mech·a·nize tr.v. mech·a·nized, mech·a·niz·ing, mech·a·niz·es 1. To equip with machinery: mechanize a factory. 2. hand claps into a moody disco-house workout, while furtive rustling and strangulated strangulated /stran·gu·lat·ed/ (strang´gu-lat?ed) congested by reason of constriction or hernial stricture. strangulated congested by reason of constriction or hernial restriction, as strangulated hernia. funk guitar coagulate coagulate /co·ag·u·late/ (-lat) to undergo coagulation. co·ag·u·late v. To change from the liquid state to a solid or gel; clot. into instrumental '70s soul on "Public Sex for Boyd McDonald." Joining partners Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt in the musical miasma miasma noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; the basis for an early concept of the origin of epidemics. are latter-day gay icons including Bjork and Antony. Sometimes the connection between celebrant and source material is too esoteric to discern without a cheat sheet--live snarls help construct the paean to Strangers on a Train author Patricia Highsmith--but the results are compelling regardless.--Kurt B. Reighley |
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