That speaks to personal disgust over sound origins, not the musical accomplishment. The associated question concerns why some reviewers consider this music to lie within the realm of grotesquerie. It implies that there is a necessary ugliness within the body, or that some embarrassment characterizes surgical treatment of a body. Description as grotesque speaks to an alienation from the body, and the musical origins of California Rhinoplasty and A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure concern altering bodies to lessen alienation. The musical project is one of simultaneous re-integration of aesthetics and perception.
Perception becomes the base of the musical aesthetic itself.
In the A Chance to Cut , for example, the sampled sounds include audiology tests and galvanic response to acupuncture. The recombinatory mix work of California Rhinoplasty , beyond being a paen to the powers of the nose, lies in the difficult work of reconstructing listener perceptions together with sound. Matmos has become a favorite experimental group for indie music fans increasingly comfortable with the avant-garde. This is because even though their albums remain quite serious, a sense of the duo's humorous musical personality never disappears. As those surgical drills press forward and tearing tissues get stretched, distorted and sonically renewed, Matmos redefines comprehensibility.