The few conversations I’ve had about them with random folk usually end with someone saying, ‘The sounds of liposuction? Only YOU would listen to something like that!’

Having been following Matmos for years, I must say that I have sometimes thought their approach a bit gimmicky, and, to a certain extend, perhaps it is, but I also think that they are genuinely interested in the sounds that exist around us and to which we don’t usually pay attention, either because we’re too busy or there are too many other things going on around, or more because we just can’t hear them. There is something quite compulsive about what they do I think, but I also can imagine that it can be a bit of a deterrent.