A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure

A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 13, 2001 (2001-03-13)
Genre
Length46:17
LabelMatador
Matmos chronology
The West
(1999)
A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure
(2001)
The Civil War
(2003)

A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure is the fourth studio album by American electronic music duo Matmos, released in 2001. The album consists primarily of samples of medical procedures, including plastic surgeries, liposuctions, hearing tests and bonesaws. The album maintains a sense of humour in contrast with the serious nature of the audio being sampled. The exception to the medical samples is the song "For Felix (And All the Rats)", a piece dedicated to their deceased pet rat Felix, performed entirely on his cage.

The two members of Matmos, Drew Daniel and Martin Schmidt, both had doctors as parents, a fact that likely influenced them in the album's creation. The album is sometimes considered a concept album within the glitch or musique concrète genre.