No, the name Beef Terminal isn't an airport departure lounge variation on the "meat market" term that's applied to so many bars, in fact it was inspired by an abandoned meat packing plant and slaugherhouse that MD Matheson came across one day in Toronto's west end. If you keep a vision of stoic, rusted buildings surrounding you as you move slowly through a maze of empty city streets, you'll come somewhere near the scenery of Beef Terminal's fourth full-length album on Noise Factory entitled "Anger Do Not Enter".

1. Everything Is Alive
2. No Robbers No Kidnappers No Fires No Floods
3. Avails
4. Knife In The Table
5. About To Rain (Or Not)
6. Say It To My Face
7. Out Of Step
8. Furnace
9. For The Sullen Lass
10. Free Lemonade
11. We Look To Adults
12. Anger Do Not Enter

Geography often plays a major part in an artists sound and with Beef Terminal, although the sound is very Canadian, it's clearly inspired by (or in symbiosis with) a range of other artists from the Earth's northernmost latitudes (i.e. Boards Of Canada, Autechre, Gescom, Bola). The sound employed by MD Matheson is a combination of ambient synths, the slow movement of strings, floating acoustic guitar, and glitched out thumping breaks that are all delivered at two-digit tempos.

If you're music collection is home to an inordinate amount of Skam or Warp releases, or you've been a long-time listener to Noise Factory's sounds, with its shifting emphasis from acoustic strings, to mellow beats, to warm, enveloping ambience, Beef Terminal's "Anger Do Not Enter" comes highly recommended.

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