''Quasi-Objects'' is a 1998

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, which followed their self-titled debut. Matmos created the album's music by incorporating ordinary sounds recorded around their home.

Track listing

Reception

''Quasi-Objects'' has received mixed reviews from music critics.

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's Sean Cooper called the album "both an improvement self-titled debut">n Matmos' self-titled debutand a disappointment", with the musicians letting "the schtick of let's-make-tracks-entirely-out-of-weird-noises get the better of their aesthetic judgement."

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's Mark Richard-San similarly described the album as "too reliant on novelty", and thought that its central gimmick "smothered the music."Mark Richard-San
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''Pitchfork'', 31 March 2001. Retrieved 6 November 2015.

Personnel

* Design –

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''Quasi-Objects'' track listing
Discogs.com. Retrieved 6 November 2015. * Cover illustration – M.C. Schmidt * Sequenced by, sampler, synthesizer -30, Sh-101, Mono/poly edited by igital editing mixed by, banjo, electric guitar, effects atex clothing, balloons, whoopee cushion, body sounds, field recording, quasi-objects– Drew Daniel, M.C. Schmidt * Written by –

* Guitar hone guitaron track 2 – Tim Furnish * Slide guitar on track 2 – M.C. Schmidt

References

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