page_title: Plastic Anniversary
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: Plastic Anniversary / Production
caption_attribution_description: Matmos
context_page_description: Plastic Anniversary is a 2019 experimental album by Matmos whose sounds originate from plastic objects. It was released on March 15, 2019.
context_section_description: All of the album's sounds originate from plastic objects. Matmos intended the album to explore our relationship to plastic and how its qualities of "durability, portability, and longevity" are both useful for humans and harmful to the environment. The album also celebrates the couple's 25th anniversary. It was released through Thrill Jockey on March 15, 2019. The label offered a pink and green recycled vinyl edition available exclusively through mail order. A deluxe box set, signed by the artists, contains a limited edition color vinyl release of the record, a bonus track, a t-shirt, and an unplayable/sculptural record made with plastic bottles (with a display stand). Proceeds from the box set go to The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch engineering nonprofit that develops technology to remove ocean plastic pollution.
  The album's first single, "Silicone Gel Implant", features a silicone breast implant, plastic flutes, and a PVC pan flute. Deerhoof's Greg Saunier plays percussion on plastic objects.
caption: M. C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel of Matmos, pictured in 2006
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