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| Released | February 19, 2013 | |||
| Genre | Electronic | |||
| Length | 49:50 | |||
| Label | Thrill Jockey | |||
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The Marriage of True Minds is the ninth studio album by electronic music group Matmos.
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| Released | February 19, 2013 | |||
| Genre | Electronic | |||
| Length | 49:50 | |||
| Label | Thrill Jockey | |||
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The Marriage of True Minds is the ninth studio album by electronic music group Matmos.
Drew Daniel and Martin Schmidt, the members of Matmos, spent four years conducting parapsychological experiments based on the Ganzfeld experiment. After subjects were put into a state of sensory deprivation, Daniel attempted to "transmit the concept of the new Matmos record” into their minds. [1] [2] Subjects were asked to describe aloud any images that entered their minds. The Marriage of True Minds was constructed using both the subjects' verbal descriptions and the band members' reenactments of these "psychic" visions. [2]
In advance of the full-length album, Matmos released the Ganzfeld EP on October 16, 2012, via Thrill Jockey. Baltimore producer Schwarz later released a club mix of "Very Large Green Triangles" with proceeds benefiting the Maryland Food Bank. [3]
The album was recorded and mixed at Daniel and Schmidt's Baltimore home and Snow Ghost Studio in Montana, and mastered in San Francisco by Thomas DiMuzio. [2] The album's final track is a "polyglot reconstruction" of Buzzcocks' song "E.S.P.", from their 1978 album Love Bites. [2]
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 79/100 [4] |
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| AllMusic |   [5] |
| Pitchfork Media | 7.5/10 [1] |
Pitchfork Media's Jayson Greene noted that Matmos' music "has always had an antic, morbid cast to it, like a Grimm's fairy tale with all the ghoulish aspects slightly accentuated, and The Marriage of True Minds is maybe the most confident they've ever been at balancing the two sides of this equation." [1] Heather Phares, reviewing the album for AllMusic, wrote that it "effortlessly [balances] the duo's freewheeling, meticulous, ominous, and playful sides" and "delivers some of the most abstract, and most visceral, music" in Matmos' discography. [5]
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "You" | 7:02 |
| 2. | "Very Large Green Triangles" | 4:44 |
| 3. | "Mental Radio" | 3:40 |
| 4. | "Ross Transcript" | 2:36 |
| 5. | "Teen Paranormal Romance" | 4:46 |
| 6. | "Tunnel" | 5:40 |
| 7. | "In Search of a Lost Faculty" | 6:10 |
| 8. | "Aetheric Vehicle" | 7:14 |
| 9. | "ESP" | 8:04 |
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