| Supreme Balloon | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Matmos |
| Border: | yes |
| Genre: | Electronic |
| Label: | Matador Records |
| Prev Title: | The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast |
| Prev Year: | 2006 |
| Next Title: | Treasure State |
| Next Year: | 2010 |
Supreme Balloon is a 2008 studio album by American electronic music duo Matmos, released via Matador Records.
On the album, Matmos skipped sampling antics in favor of a lighthearted "cosmic pop" record made entirely out of synthesizers. The exotic and antiquated synths used here heavily spotlight the classic 1960s/1970s/1980s consumer electronic rigs of Arp, Korg, Roland, Waldorf, and Moog.[1]
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Supreme Balloon received an average score of 78% based on 20 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Mark Pytlik of Pitchfork gave the album a 7.5 out of 10, calling it "a woozily beautiful-sounding record, as crystalline, gleaming, and full-bodied as vintage Terry Riley."