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    Autechre - SIGN 16.10.20

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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.

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    Autechre - PLUS 20.11.20

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    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!

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    Autechre - PLUS 20.11.20

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    12 minutes ago, Mic Finger said:

    Do we think we should consider this an album or EP? The Warp catalogue # is 338. Could suggest that it's the 14th EP, which might be the case if AE live and OneSix/16-18 are considered the 12th and 13th EPs or non-album releases...

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

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    Autechre - SIGN 16.10.20

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    12 minutes ago, djimbe said:

    I sat and listened through it for the first time on my big hi-fi today. There is enormous bass on some tracks that just holds. I mean frequencies start up and they barely stop or ebb, and the whole room has pressure.

    Initial reaction is that I'm lukewarm overall because the tracks seem really static to me. They begin, and sometimes there's not even a section B they change to before the end. They're often doing largely the same thing after seven minutes, then they just stop. I know Autechre are all about repetition, but I guess if I compare this to either the middle period that some describe as the most composed, or the more recent sprawling/generative NTS mode, it's got the sound design and circling of the latter delivered in the presentation of the former (discrete tracks) but without the trajectory power or direction of the former. So maybe in the context of Autechre, I file it as a new mode.

    Obviously a lot here love the lush synth sound, but that doesn't interest me much overall without more melodic development. I agree with the chap who said that when Autechre foreground this kind of thing, I don't think it's their strong point. My comment about wanting more development is why I don't think it's their strong point.

    It's impossible to say I'm disappointed because I had no idea what was coming. Maybe I secretly hoped for a move towards the 'composed mode', given we're back to the what-fits-on-a-CD format. The inundation of hours and hours and hours of material that Autechre have kindly given us inbetween Sign and the last album of this size has probably hurt the element of surprise when Sign sounds as similar to the sound design in those hours. I mean my brain's always saying 'Oh yeah, I remember this little way of making a spray of beeps from this bit of NTS' etc.

    Anyway, it's obviously great to have a new album and I look forward to this one wandering around in the pantheon over time. However, I would be very surprised if this one ever became my favourite. (And I will admit if it does!)

    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.

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    Autechre - SIGN 16.10.20

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    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!

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    Autechre - SIGN 16.10.20

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    4 hours ago, Alcofribas said:

    - what was it like to make this album? 

    SAM: we were just messing about really.

    ROBER: yeah, it's like a spaceship really. how like, a spaceship from an alien can land so elegantly.

    haha why is this so accurate

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