i haven't read this whole thread...35 pages?!, nice. what i will say is i like it, it's quite well done. this album reminds me of confield crossed with incunabula. it's not the fact that this record has melodies or anything that makes me think of earlier autechre but it just sounds simpler. i mean there are 20 tracks and a nice balance of complex and simpler tracks, it works out to be a nice balance and flow. i like the fact that they did it this way, 20 tracks very varied, some simpler than others, rather than ten overly complex tracks. it's easier to get into and enjoy from the get go.
to me when i listened to it for the first time i thought some of the tracks sounds like sound being bounced around a small room breaking through walls and stuff. organized chaos and not confusion, word. i like.