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Electronic duo/geniuses and Bjork collaborators, Matmos, play in Portland on July 9th. Win two free tickets to the show.

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3 1/2-star review for "Supreme Balloon", the newest "all-synthesizer" album from avant-electro duo Matmos. Complete with streaming audio and video.

Built exclusively from electronics, and old electronics even more specifically, Matmos’s eighth album might really be, as some have suggested, the duo’s pop album. Whereas recent outings like 2006’s The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast and The Civil War from 2003 were conceptual in scope, Supreme Balloon is conceptual only in its...

Matmos rocks the Korgs and stacks of analog antiquity on Supreme Balloon, the duo’s new record for which “Exciter Lamp” is the, um, “single.” The song’s video is appropriately nervy and strange, like footage found in some cult of grad students. We’re a bit disappointed, though. Someone recently referred to Supreme Balloon as Matmos’s....