Consuming flame: open exercises in group form

"Like most Matmos albums, The Consuming Flame is about more than just its ostensible organizing principle. The number 99 is largely arbitrary, but the animating ideas are the same ones that have been at the heart of Matmos' work all along: community, interdependence, the radical joy of creative play. And as this long year stretches on, infection curves unspooling against the X axis-not entirely unlike the multi-colored bars stretching across the album's list of contributors-those same ideas are proving just as important in life as in art".

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"For those willing to invest the time in it, getting lost in the record's vastness is immensely satisfying. In its own way, The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form is a fitting companion piece to Plastic Anniversary. Like that album, it's a winning celebration of what makes Matmos special, and a tribute to the boundless possibilities of creativity - especially when it's shared with others".

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