| Com Defeito de Fabricação | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Tom Zé |
| Cover: | Com Defeito de Fabricação.jpeg |
| Border: | yes |
| Released: | 1998 |
| Recorded: | 1998 |
| Genre: | MPB |
| Length: | 36:35 |
| Label: | Luaka Bop[1] |
| Next Title: | Postmodern Platos |
| Next Year: | 1999 |
Fabrication Defect (Com Defeito de Fabricação) is an album by the Brazilian musician Tom Zé, released in 1998.[2] [3] It is a concept album about the likelihood of humans becoming androids due to the forces of economic manipulation; "genetic defects", like the desire to dance, are the only things preventing the transformation.[4] [5]
Zé supported the album by touring with Tortoise as his backing band.[6] A remix EP, Postmodern Platos, was released in 1999.[7]
Rolling Stone thought that the album "exhibits a symphonic precision rare in music of such percussive complexity."[8] CMJ New Music Report called the album "a stunning return," writing that Zé is "perhaps the last Brazilian Tropicalista to remain totally true to his iconoclastic roots."[9]
The Orange County Register stated that Fabrication Defect "showcases [Zé's] off-kilter cultural cut 'n' paste style in which everything from a 'rubber balloon on tooth' to bottles can become a musical instrument."[10] The Village Voice concluded that "Zé doesn't simply cut and paste digital bits together into a martial disco beat, preferring unlikely material displacements of musique concrète."[11]
AllMusic wrote that "the album is a fragmented blend of skittish acoustic guitars, booming electronic rhythms, shouted slogans, bizarre found-sound tape loops, and near-psychedelic production tricks."