723 Unique Samples on Herbert's New one

Matthew "Herbert" Herbert's new disc, Scale, has been in rotation a lot recently. I finally got around to reading the All Music Guide review today, and noticed this little segment about Herb's production techniques:

Given Scale's use of sounds that come from associable objects like fuel pumps and coffins, as well as its maker's unflagging devotion to recording methods of greater (and almost Jackass-like) extremes, it would be easy to prejudge the album as dry and joyless. One poor drummer was recorded under water, in a hot air balloon, and in a car driving 100 miles an hour — hey, for kicks next time, why not record his finger cymbals as he grapples a shark wearing a Dick Cheney mask?

Altogether the album boasts some 723 unique samples including meteorites and someone getting sick outside a banquet in London. Eat your heart out, the Avalanches.

Funny that with all the sample mish-mashing the final product product sounds as crisp as a Steely Dan record. I'll post a couple of tracks later.