Album Notes

The second release from Boston duo Andre Obin and Thomas Gallagher - sandwiched, fittingly enough, between 2001's Lowtech and the to-be-released Hightech - falls somewhere between post-rock instrumental and ambient music. It's an odd combination of deep, throbbing basslines, electronic and organic drums, and the perfect amount of soothing keyboard atmospherics. And listening to Midtech's five songs is like listening to one long, spiraling, flowing track with enough variation to provoke hitting repeat upon its end.
-Delusions of Adequacy

Although I'm normally not a booster of this sort of minimalist instrumental music, I enjoyed Midtech EP all the way through. The bass lines on the early songs are languid and beautiful, and the ambient pieces are inventive enough to be not only pleasant but interesting. If Matters & Dunaway ever put out a full-length, I'd like to hear it. -- Scott Jacobson splendidezine.com


Faintly laced with organic textures, the wisps of Stars in the Lake (6:05) are just as serene, even while cymbals spatter and bassdrums pump. Gorgeous though more obtuse, Honduras ripples on deeply swaying streams which exude a metallic mistiness. "Ordinary" instrument sounds are shaped into comfortably exotic new contours; I hope to hear more from Matters & Dunaway than this enticing 24-minute introduction! (A-) -david opdyke Ambientrance.