Excellent electronic minimal synth album.
John Foxx's first solo album following his split with Ultravox the previous year. A departure from the richly-textured mix of synthesizers and conventional instruments on "Systems of Romance", his last album with the band, Metamatic's hard-edged electronica was more akin to Kraftwerk's "The Man-Machine" (1978), Gary Numan's "The Pleasure Principle (1979)" and early Human League.