Actual Sounds + Voices

Actual Sounds + Voices
Studio album by
Released30 June 1998
Recorded1997–98
Genre
Length72:58
LabelNothing Records
ProducerMeat Beat Manifesto
Meat Beat Manifesto chronology
Subliminal Sandwich
(1996)
Actual Sounds + Voices
(1998)
RUOK?
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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AllMusic
Pitchfork8.5/10
Tom Hull – on the WebB+

Actual Sounds + Voices is the sixth studio album by electronic music group Meat Beat Manifesto, released in 1998.

Like its predecessor, Subliminal Sandwich, the album deeply intertwines multiple forms of electronic music with live instruments such as the bass clarinet, saxophone, drums and Fender Rhodes. However, Actual Sounds + Voices is more influenced by jazz, coupled with a darker tone and characterized by persistent erratic breakbeats. "The Thumb" is a lengthy jazz fusion song featuring Bennie Maupin and Patrick Gleeson, both veterans of Herbie Hancock's early 1970s band.