Matthew HerbertBest Matthew Herbert Albums Ranked
8.0
Avg Score
9
Opinions
10
Albums
2
Reviewers
Summary from 9 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Matthew Herbert's catalog across 10 albums from 9 opinions, with an overall average of 8.0/10. The top-rated Matthew Herbert album is Scale (2006) with a 9.1/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by Around the House and One Pig. The discography on Wavelength spans 1998 to 2013. Something Isn't Right ranks as the highest-rated Matthew Herbert song on Wavelength with a 9.0/10 average.
Scale
“The dance producer's latest release is another wobbly step down his idiosyncratic path of torch songs, high-end sampledelia, and disco motion-- as well as one of this year's great albums.”
Around the House
“England's Matthew Herbert is known more for his musical process than his actual output. His work is guided by his "Contract for the Composition of Music" manifesto, a kind of Dogma 95-style treatise on music-making in the information age. Herbert frowns on sampling other music, synthesizer pre-sets, and drum machines, and gives the thumbs-up to human error (his 2000 mix CD is titled *Let's All Mak”
One Pig
“The final volume of Matthew Herbert's "One" trilogy is an overwhelming, inscrutably political electronic record culled from an unlikely source: It consists of manipulated recordings Herbert made of a pig's life "from birth to plate."”
One One
“The post-modern music maker limits his contextual sampling to a single subject: himself.”
One Club
“Herbert pays homage to DJ culture on his latest record, composed from sounds recorded during one night at the Robert Johnson nightclub in Frankfurt.”
The End of Silence
“Further narrowing his focus from the meticulously reductionist values of his One trilogy, Matthew Herbert zeroes in on a recording of a pro-Gaddafi plane flying over Libya and dropping a bomb, contorting and manipulating the sample to explore his feelings about a single act of terror.”
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