Scale (album)

Scale
Studio album by Matthew Herbert
Released May 29, 2006
Recorded November 2005 at Abbey Road Studios
Genre Electronica
Length 51:26
Label Studio !K7
Producer Matthew Herbert
Matthew Herbert chronology

Plat du Jour
(2005)
Scale
(2006)
There's Me And There's You
2008
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Pitchfork Media (8.8/10) [2]
Resident Advisor [3]

Scale is an album by Matthew Herbert, released May 29, 2006. According to the liner notes, 635 objects were used to create the album. These include traditional instruments, such as violins and guitars, as well as other objects, such as breakfast cereal, gas pumps and coffins.

On MSNBC's website Year In Review, Scale was listed as one of ten albums worth a listen in 2006. Pitchfork Media ranked Scale #35 on the Top 50 Albums of 2006.

Pitchfork Media also listed the song "Something Isn't Right" as the 340th best song of the 2000s.

Track listing

  1. "Something Isn't Right" – 3:45
  2. "The Movers and the Shakers" – 4:15
  3. "Moving Like a Train" – 5:53
  4. "Harmonise" – 5:39
  5. "We're in Love" – 4:43
  6. "Birds of a Feather" – 5:05
  7. "Those Feelings" – 4:23
  8. "Down" – 6:12
  9. "Movie Star" – 4:14
  10. "Just Once" – 6:15
  11. "Wrong" – 1:02

References