- electronic, glitch, idm, musique concrète
- 41 min
- 9 tracks
- Smithsonian Folkways
Return to Archive is the fourteenth studio album by electronic duo Matmos, released on November 3, 2023. It uses non-music material sourced from the Smithsonian Folkways collection in its composition; the album itself was commissioned to commemorate Folkways' 75th anniversary.
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Cool, spare, grave and character-led.
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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Tracks
- 1Good Morning Electronics1:05
- 2Injection Basic Sound2:56
- 3Mud‐Dauber Wasp3:36
- 4Music or Noise?4:12
- 5Why?4:03
- 6Lend Me Your Ears3:46
- 7Return to Archive13:28
- 8The Way Japanese Beetles Sound to a Rose1:28
- 9Going to Sleep6:44
9 tracks, 41 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Matmos
- Label
- Smithsonian Folkways
- Released
- November 3, 2023
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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