Album Reviews
Hear it Now
View
A man with a manifesto, Matthew Herbert won't use pre-existing sounds in his jazz-meets-house compositions, only live instrumentation, found sounds and happy accidents. On Bodily Functions, his eighth LP, he samples the body electric, using the various creaks, stirs and bends of the human form to percussive ends. The sprightly heartbeat of Matmos' Martin Schmidt propels the systolic house of "Foreign Bodies"; "You Saw It All" is an electrosynth expedition rooted in the sounds of laser eye surgery. Herbert's toolbox is varied - popping fluegelhorns on "It's Only" and melancholy jazz piano on "The Last Beat" eschew the literal body-rocking. But with Bodily Functions, Herbert proves you can build house music out of nothing but flesh, bone and whatever is in between.
JON CARAMANICA
(RS 872 - July 5, 2001)
Share
Email
AIM
Del.icio.us
DiggThis
Fark It!
Advertisement
News and Reviews
Advertisement
How to Play This Album
It's FREE.
Click the play button.
Register or enter your username and password.
Let the music play!
It's FREE.
Track List
- You're Unknown To Me
- It's Only
- Foreign Bodies
- Suddenly
- I Know
- Leave Me Now
- The Last Beat
- You Saw It All
- No Reflection
- About This Time Each Day
- Addiction
- I Miss You
- It's Only A Reprise
- The Audience
 |
Your Turn
Advertisement
More CD Reviews
-
John Mayer
Where The Light Is: John Mayer Live In Los Angeles -
My Chemical Romance
The Black Parade is Dead -
Alkaline Trio
Agony & Irony -
Amos Lee
Last Days At The Lodge -
G Unit
T.O.S. (Terminate On Sight) -
Sebadoh
Bubble & Scrape -
The Offspring
Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace -
Girl Talk
Feed The Animals -
Motley Crue
Saints Of Los Angeles -
Billy Joel
The Stranger (30th anniversary deluxe edition)
©RealNetworks, Inc. All rights reserved.
©Copyright 2008 Rolling Stone
- Portions of Album Content Provided by All Music Guide © 2008 All Media Guide, LLC.
Get RS Mobile
RSS
