Matthew Herbert

England's Matthew Herbert saved the driving message of his album series for the last record; his trilogy is thematically connected, in that each record uses sounds from one specific thing. While One Club was synthesized using sounds recorded on a night clubbing in Germany, One Pig follows the life of a male pig, the sounds captured by Matthew Herbert from birth to the dinner plate. Experienced like an audible short film, the album is an emotional journey bringing the listener right into the life of this little creature and the ominous knowledge of inevitable loss. The digitization of sound both soothes the mind and crunches through the record; its focus on the pig is never lost. The concept of specialized sound from one entity extends to the instrumentation ― sounds of a drum made from the pig's skin clarify the depth of connection Herbert was going for. One Pig is an homage to the sanctity of the short life of a pig. It's a concept album aiming to bring forward the truths that lay hidden below our perceptions.