Matmos rave reviews! Sally Anne Morgan Deep Digs, Manslaughter 777 share new single + bootleg mixtape, and Rose City Band kick off tour soon!

Weekly Newsletter for June 26, 2025.

Jun 26, 2025

Matmos’s Metallic Life Review receives high praise!

We can’t believe that Matmos’ spellbinding new album Metallic Life Review has been out for a week already. We are soooo excited to see them in Chicago this weekend at the wonderful Constellation, as they continue to tour throughout the U.S.!

We have had “The Chrome Reflects Our Image,” a song dedicated to David Lynch, on heavy rotation here at Thrill Jockey HQ. Have a listen while you read through a few excellent reviews we collected for you.

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“Metallic Life Review,” an album due in June, builds tracks entirely from the sounds of metallic instruments and objects that Matmos — Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt — have collected over many years: struck, plucked, bowed, scraped, clanged together. In “Changing States,” those sounds include otherworldly chords plucked on pedal steel guitar by Susan Alcorn, who died earlier this year, along with electric guitar, glockenspiel and a vast assortment of percussion; it’s simultaneously elegiac and comedic.” - The New York Times

“Matmos is a duo that is sorely under valued and under listened to… there’s just not a lot out there like them.” - The Needle Drop, 7/10

“Showing metal isn’t hard, cold and unflinching, but malleable, iridescent and full of unlikely resonances, Metallic Life Review is deeply moving and gloriously alive.” - The Quietus

“Metallic Life Review is, above all else, a masterly repositioning of music into the realm of physical substance, where the inanimate becomes animate, and metal’s perceived harshness and coldness is alchemised into warmth and humanity. There’s something magical about that.” - KLOF Magazine

"Daniel and Schmidt are at heart some of the most curious and pure field recordists. They go to great lengths to collect peculiar audio… and then further their love for musical experimentation by solving for the impossibilities of what that already fascinating audio may be transformed into." - The Big Takeover

"Metallic Life Review includes samples collected over the course of their career, but it’s not a farewell set; it’s an acknowledgment that time is limited, and unpredictable. To hear them on this title piece is to realize how instinctive their collaboration has become, with each reacting to the other in fluid fashion, creating a living, breathing, metallic machine."
- A Closer Listen

"One of the duo’s finest achievements, this elemental album never loses touch with its human origins" - MusicOMH

Matmos will be bringing Metallic Life Review to you, on the first leg of their US dates.

Martin and Drew always boggle minds with their ability to recreate complex music live – remember the washing machine?! Recreating the songs of Metallic live is no less a marvel and a joy, as surprising sound sources are revealed throughout. It is a not to be missed performance.

Grab your tickets below and see you there:

6/29 - Chicago, IL - Constellation [tickets]

7/3 - Louisville, KY - Art Sanctuary [tickets]

7/4 - Pittsburgh, PA - The Government Center [tickets]

7/8 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall [tickets]

7/11 - Los Angeles, CA - 2220 Arts [tickets]

7/16 - Portland, OR - Holocene [tickets]

7/20 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile [tickets]

8/30 - Washington, DC - Black Cat [tickets]

Grab the Metallic Silver LP which comes with a digital download code! We also only have 10 of 12-pack postcards and only 2 of the 18-pack postcards with art by Ted Mineo! CDs are also running low in stock. Snag these highly coveted and limited works of art while you still can!

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Sally Anne Morgan’s Deep Digs

Flowers are in full bloom so it was great timing last week when Sally Anne Morgan released Second Circle The Horizon.

Narc magazine said it well:

“You’re lying in the shade by a sun-dappled pool on an Appalachian hillside, watching dragonflies dart across the surface of the cool clear water. The air is as still as your heart. You’re at peace. And that’s just the opening track on Sally Anne Morgan’s remarkable third album, a richly textured immersion in nature and life cycles and the mountain country she’s from. Few records capture a sense of place this vividly, with fiddles and banjos foregrounded (Morgan has served in both House & Land and Black Twig Pickers so she’s a helluva musician). Sparingly used piano, bass and synths add depth but it’s those old sounds that dominate, the tunes flowing like streams or hanging in the air like an eagle. Inhale it deeply.”

Sally’s influences are vast and she is a discerning listener so we were so excited when she agreed to dig through our catalog and talk about some of her favorites.

Watch and listen to Sally’s Deep Digs now:

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Manslaughter 777 share another killer track, “Silk Barricade”

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Manslaughter 777, the duo composed of drummers/programmers Lee Buford (The Body, Sightless Pit, Dead Times, Everyone Asked About You) and Zac Jones (MSC, Nothing, Braveyoung) have shared the shapeshifting, transfigurative single "Silk Barricade," a warped suite adeptly shifting between grooves, its dub-gone-jungle drop eventually met with an industrial breakdown. Available only here, on our site and the band’s Bandcamp.

Manslaughter 777 are powerhouses of forward-thinking rhythmic music and production. The duo combine their prowess as percussionists and producers into beat-centric music that delights in turning unexpected sounds into razor sharp rhythms. Buford and Jones, along with engineer/producer Seth Manchester of Machines with Magnets (The Body, Model/Actriz, Liturgy), have collaborated for nearly two decades, consistently shattering genre boundaries and redefining the role of the studio in the process. God’s World uses innovative sound sampling to create expansive sonics driven by complex rhythms. The resulting album’s infectious grooves are both celebratory and irreverent.

God's World will only be available in-full exclusively on LP, with all LP bespoke jackets designed and hand-silk screened by the band. Digital copies will only be available with the LP.

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Rose City Band kicking off North American tour in July!

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Rose City Band heading back out on the road, bringing the sultry summertime jams of Sol Y Sombra to you! Check out their upcoming July shows so you can snag your tickets before it’s too late. Every show is different and we love it when Ripley lets the guitar loose. Seems we are not alone as we have spotted a few multi show travelers along the way. If you film a great solo or a killer lick, tag them and us (@thrilljockey and @rosecityband), and let us know how many sets you caught.

We can’t get enough!