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Holy shit, a Lone post! Huge fan, man!

Love the review man. Love the mrs skull cameo

Yea I think they definitely have a mountain of tunes they’re sitting on (and continuing to make), and could definitely arrange more albums if they wanted to, but they are very conscious about creating cohesive pieces of work centered around a common theme. Or as you said, concept albums. I view them through the lens of concept albums, even it’s not what they intended. I’m probably thinking about it too much. That’s awesome about your niece. I play ‘softer’ BoC tunes for my daughter right now (Olson, 5-9-78, etc.) but will probably wait a bit to give her the full Tomorrow’s Harvest playthrough. Worried Jacquard Causeway for example might develop into paranoia/anxiety. She is only 16 months ?

Big fan of Hand Cranked (and Fi) but I'll take this opportunity to once again voice my extreme desire for a Vignetting the Compost repress. I like Ambivalence Avenue well enough also, but Vignetting just resonates with me. Some day! It's between VTC and Orbus Terrarum by The Orb for "#1 vinyl repress I regularly complain about wanting". Give me what I want!

Well then...gotta have this

Pretty dorky response tbh. Relax man we get it, you're an OPN fan. No need to act like the OPN Opinion Gatekeeper, there's enough room here for all of us.

Nice track! He can put out some really nice stuff, several tracks are in regular rotation on my playlists. I have a hard time revisiting full albums because they don’t keep my attention. “Nice background” music is kinda Ghostly’s M.O. I suppose. I mean that as a compliment and not as a slight.

These are all good and valid takes on the album. One thing I really love about Autechre is that their discography is so deep and varied. There is an amazing variety of rankings. I mean it happens with all bands but it’s just pretty cool to me how everyone has a totally different itch to scratch. Th red a is peak fucking Autechre to me. This whole album pretty much shook me yesterday but I can’t get this track out of my head.

Absolutely feel the same way.

Been fun following the discussion all day. This is already topping both Exai and Oversteps for me, I honestly think it’s possibly my favorite since LP5, which is hard to believe as I type it out. This is just really hitting me, I don’t know what else to say other than I didn’t expect it. The final three track run alone puts this in the conversation for one of their best LPs. I think Metaz form 8 and Th red A are my favorites right not tbh.

Sch.mefd2 is so insanely good, I’m still trying to comprehend it.

If you think you’re going to hear OPN or BoC in this album you’re going to be very disappointed. This is an Autechre album through and through.

Immediately requires subsequent listens. There's too many layers! Feels like it might be a complimentary piece rather than a standalone album. If this is it, then I'm still definitely a happy camper.

Thanks. What a trip of an album, my gosh.

I totally lost my place - what track# is this?

Best thing I've heard all year. Can't wait for a proper headphone listen.

*me trying to work on spreadsheets* Fffffuuuuuuck! oh my gosh wow.....fuck me! *co-workers* huh? Uhh...I said I need some more coffee, will this week ever end? heh.

Sounds like a bit of a mashup between Oversteps and Exai, but through a totally new lens. Really digging the aquatic vibe that many people are mentioning. We'll see if it holds up but this is really special so far.

Hell yea, this is awesome.

this bass is out of control.

lol so much for melody

yusssss

Cannot connect to chat, not that i care that much. But it does make me think S&R will pop in, otherwise what's the point?

I blocked time off on my work calendar for this, "Personal Business". Do not disturb! No I'm not ashamed of myself.

Looking forward to talking about the tunes very soon, this thread has been pretty wild... Some of the art has been really great tbh, your moms would be very proud of you! Also some of you have to be legally insane. bring on Sign!