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A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure - Matmos
Metascore
80 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
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  1. All Music Guide
    90
    To the duo's credit, Matmos avoids making A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure grisly or gross; Andrew Daniel and Martin Schmidt approach the album's concept with their usual playfulness and an appropriately clinical detachment, resulting in some clever and surprisingly diverse songs
  2. The Wire
    90
    A splendid piece of work; compelling even when shorn of its conceptual and procedural backdrop, and infinitely more invigorating when considered as one with its making. [#205, p.58]
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  3. Trouser Press
    90
    A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure is many things: inevitable, insane and their finest album.
  4. Pitchfork
    88
    The test of any conceptual record is how well it stands on its own, removed from the angle. And A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure is a first-rate work, even if you're unfamiliar with the backstory.
  5. Almost Cool
    80
    This is one concept album that doesn't forsake listenability for pure experimentation.
  6. Alternative Press
    80
    While A Chance may not move Matmos any closer to either the song or sound distinction, perhaps the fact that their music consistently provokes smiles and dark thought with increasing accessibility warrants our continued, if not increased, attention... [#154, p.76]
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  7. Magnet
    80
    Some artists stimulate your brain, others tickle your senses. Matmos does both. [#50, p.101]
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  8. Splendid
    80
    Most [tracks] work quite well with the multifaceted rhythms and constantly evolving beats that make each of the tracks here a true expression of creativity.
  9. Mojo
    70
    An eminently listenable collage of jittery grooves, lop-sided beats and wayward electronica.
  10. Spin
    70
    Matmos have captured with discomforting vividness the sheer surrealism of the modern vanity industry, the medieval tortures people gladly endure in pursuit of physical perfection.
  11. Neumu.net
    60
    The astonishing way in which the latest outing from San Franciscan deconstructionist darlings Matmos was put together is of such novel conceit it threatens to overshadow the final product.
  12. Q Magazine
    60
    Sure, there are some moments of taxing weirdness but generally, it's good, albeit eccentric fun.
  13. Launch.com
    50
    Though its methods reek of gimmickry, and are not as interesting as similar but more musical travelers like Plaid, Autechre, or Mouse On Mars, Matmos does construct a daring two-cans-and-a-string party album.
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