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listened to SIGN again while drifting in and out of sleep yesterday, somehow I was picking up on lots of hidden layers in the tracks which made me appreciate the whole album from a totally new angle. F7 especially opened up for me this time around (which had been my least-fav track up until now). Lots of people have mentioned how sonically consistent the album feels (myself included), but yesterday's listening session made me realize how totally different and unique all of the tracks really are. It reminds me of Confield in that way, where each track feels like its own self-contained world, while also feeling really coherent as album.

nice one, looking forward to it!

"why did u create SIGN with a regular DAW & what vsts did u use"

fuuuu.... ecol4 is the shiiiiiiiit

just took a walk with this one headphones - first impression: this is one of the best collections of tracks they've put out. I still enjoy SIGN very very much - it's got its own unique, intricate sound-world with tons of subtle progression - yet I've found myself instantly invested in the complex, layered, more upfront compositions on this new album. Perhaps my fav aspect about PLUS is how fresh it sounds - a welcome surprise after the Exai-elseq-NTS continuum, which all seemed to be cut from the same cloth (at least to me) can't wait to deep-dive into these two new records. Again: Sean & Rob, thanks!

back of the sleeve says WARP LP 338, also all warp eps/12"s have WAP catalogue numbers

lp ordered, downloading now! thanks rob & sean!

vinyl LP just arrived, listening to psin AM right now (speakers). so much space/depth in that track... loving those saw/triangle pads + those 1kbps sounding laser stabs

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M4 Lema feels like a continuation/more epic version of Cep puiqMX (fractured hip hop beats + lush reverberant chords)

this album, along with Oversteps and Exai, forms a perfect trilogy of AE winter albums for me. Can't wait to listen to this one once the snow starts falling :---)

sums up pretty well how i'm feeling about the album right now. M4 Lema feels like a bit off an "odd one out" compared with the rest of the tracks (in that it has a more dynamic composition, with a very off the cuff beginning, then pads coming in, then rhythm coming in etc.). i'm also curious to see how the LP develops/reveals itself in the future.

current favs: M4 Lema, Metaz form8, r cazt playing the LP on repeat @ work atm edit: 300th post yaas

pretty cheeky of that dude to use a picture of a load of trash as the header image for an article about a new AE album lol. nice write-up tho.

Metaz form8 is my current fav (strong LP5 vibes), tied with M4 Lema

thx seanrob, downloading now!

let's go bois

kalpol introl (1994 live version)

since the initial announcement, I've been binge listening to an AE playlist that's got everything they've released in the past decade (17hrs long, and that's just the studio material). the amount of music that we've been graced with by the lads in recent years is absoluetely nuts + it's all quality stuff as well, they're not half-assing stuff just to get another release out. truly remarkable. listening to this playlist has also revealed to me (again) how all of their 2010s material shares these inter-related musical ideas (especially from Exai onwards), which makes me really excited to hear what they'll do with SIGN - will it be a further exploration of their established sound palette, or (probs even more exciting) a complete left-turn à la Quaristice or Oversteps? in any case, oct 16 can't come soon enough!

haha why is this so accurate

and/or because it's the companion ep to their (e)l-even-th album

there's "18 (keyosc)", don't know about any other watmm references apart from that one

2xLP preordered!