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• Released on: 2000-05-09
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Customer Reviews

A new direction for Rachel's?
Their revision of "Full On Night" is hopefully indicitave of a new direction. To me it's like a combination of previous Rachel's material as well as a more edgy Godspeed You Black Emperor (Slow Riot...) feel, while still also incorporating more of a free-fusion jazz element (think of the Jaco Pastorius, Bruce Ditmas, Pat Metheny and Paul Bley collaboration). As for the Matmos material--reminds me slightly of Autechre's EP7 but with more of the typical DAT tape frittery associated with "glitch" groups... nothing special but obviously worth a listen! Anyway this disc is worth picking up just for "Full On Night"!

The New Frontier?
Wow! Rachel's have been dancing the line between hardcore classicism and the impetus of rock music since their inception, but never as well realised as this. "Full On Night" is a reworking of a track off their debut "Handwriting" album that drifts seamlessly between episodes of grace, poise, abandon and downright hedonism. The Matmos re-interpretation is a lengthy exploration of textures that is way up there with the finest that Autechre and Pole have had to offer. Crucial!

Rachel's is Perfect , Matmos Halfway, Averages Out to 4
Two cuts on this EP. Rachels with a version of Full on Night from Handwriting, their first release. They are so...complete-- that they scare me. Lush, redolent, edgy, supple, evocative... I have never made an unequivocal statement like this, but I've been around a long time and I've listened to a lot of underground/post rock music-- and before the mid-nineties, there was never a band (ensemble) like this: As recording artists, they have no equal.

Matmos....has potential, but this odd pairing with Rachel's seems kind of unfair, juxtaposing a dry, interesting band with what I won't scruple to call the greatest American alternative studio band of all time.