A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure

Infobox Album
Name = A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure
Type = Album
Artist = Matmos


Released = March 13, 2001
Recorded =
Genre = Electronic music
Length =
Label = Matador
Producer =
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4sl67uy020jg~T0 link]
*The Milk Factory (4/5) [http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/reviews/matmos_cure.htm link]
*Pitchfork Media (8.8/10) [http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/19759/Matmos_A_Chance_to_Cut_is_a_Chance_to_Cure 4/1/2001]
*Tiger Sushi Rating|5|5 [http://www.tigersushi.com/site/Rcd.jsp?RcdId=5189 link]
Last album = The West (1999)
This album = "A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure" (2001)
Next album = The Civil War (2003)

"A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure" is a 2001 album by electronic music group Matmos. The album consists primarily of samples of medical procedures, including plastic surgeries, liposuctions, hearing tests and bonesaws. The album maintains a sense of humour in contrast with the serious nature of the audio being sampled. The exception to the medical samples is the song "For Felix (And All the Rats)", a piece dedicated to their deceased pet rat Felix, performed entirely on his cage.

The two members of Matmos, Drew Daniel and Martin Schmidt, both had doctors as parents, a fact that likely influenced them in the album's creationcite web
url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dpfexqw0ldhe
title=Review
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accessdate=2007-05-11] The album is sometimes considered a concept album within the glitch or musique concrète genre.

Track listing

#"Lipostudio...And So On"
#"L.A.S.I.K."
#"Spondee"
#"Ur Tchun Tan Tse Qi"
#"For Felix (And All the Rats)"
#"Memento Mori"
#"California Rhinoplasty"

References

External links

* [http://www.brainwashed.com/matmos/discog/ole489.html "A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure" at Matmos' Discography]