baph Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 screw "professional journalism" there are plenty of other places on the net, like here on watmm or amazon. I love reading these more down to earth, subjective and often overly fantastical user reviews. Tend to be much more colourful, fun to read and full of great observations. Yup. Feedback is best delivered from the bottom up, not from the top on down. I believe this is called being a power bottom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Won't read anything here. Will first listen to it, tomorrow, then check back to WATMM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xox Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 at least it wasn't a fictional conversation from a book the reviewer was really into at the time. Wittgenstein, Fukuda, Mozart: A temporary platinum tress? Good book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest toosharp Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 The Wire review of Exai... Thanks for posting this one (I actually quite appreciated the references back to their early interest in hip hop, etc, and would just have appreciated a longer review to allow for more 'Exai' material at the end...) Anyway, like many above I totally disagree with the negative opinion of Confield: I'm definitely ON the bandwagon with that one. (And Farmers Manual too!) Given the reference to Bayle's obscure Erosphere, I get the impression that certain factions of the Wire magazine club want to preserve the cache of the truly avant stuff for themselves, and that any such aspirations from a Warp Records artist will be dismissed as 'geeky avant tendencies'... Ho hum. Just out of interest, does the original review name the critic? The review was written by Matthew Ingram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest disoriental express Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 this one is quite good: http://www.theskinny.co.uk/latest/304012-autechre_exai Feelin it. Exai certainly feels like a reconnect with the foundations of their music. like a snaeke eating its own tail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirm Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 This review aint to bad http://www.urb.com/2013/02/14/autechre-exai/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=autechre-exai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cult fiction Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 The trend continues of these reviews spending less than 1/5 of their total word count on the album itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pixelives Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 I think every good review has to start with context (especially considering this album in the larger context of the discography). But they shouldn't spend 50% of the piece on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nem30 Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Interesting that both this review: http://www.urb.com/2013/02/14/autechre-exai/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=autechre-exai And this one: http://thewhaleshipglobe.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/review-autechre-exai-warp234.html Talk about a 'live' / 'performed' feel to the new album... Do any of the gear experts on here know if that is an accurate reflection of the tech used for Exai as opposed to some of the earlier albums? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest adjohns Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Here's one of the best reviews yet: http://www.musicreviewdatabase.co.uk/2013/02/autechre-exai.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
encey Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 As expected, Autechre take little time to shift from their previously established sound with the opening track Fleure (and noted, you're more than likely to pronounce these names a lot differently to how I will) That's a strange thing to say in a written review! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest adjohns Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 One of the more legit reviews: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/q9j9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apriorion Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 One of the more legit reviews: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/q9j9 That's one of the better ones I've read so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiddleBot Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 I'd like to start a metareview site that reviews reviewers. Differences in personal taste are totally fine of course, so this would be based on specific critera: like how much they actually discuss the work in question, how much they project their own nonsense as objectivity (like the wire reviewer's digressive and subjective rambling about mid 90's electronica), how knowledgeable they appear about the field (remember the RollingStone review of drukqs that seemed to credit the Beatles with musique concrete?), whether or not they stoop to personal attacks when they don't like an artist (like some early pitchfork reviews calling musicians names). Bonus points for using the word pretentious correctly, because there's nothing more pretentious than using it incorrectly (usually because it sounds like a really important word I can use to describe things I don't like). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pikkio Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Another italian one, half good: http://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2013_autechre_exai.htm (the google translation in english gives ilarious results) btw i'm really enjoying Exai and its discussions on this forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kieselguhr kid Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 and another one http://experimedia.tumblr.com/post/43158136729/autechreexai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 Interesting that both this review: http://www.urb.com/2013/02/14/autechre-exai/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=autechre-exai And this one: http://thewhaleshipglobe.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/review-autechre-exai-warp234.html Talk about a 'live' / 'performed' feel to the new album... Do any of the gear experts on here know if that is an accurate reflection of the tech used for Exai as opposed to some of the earlier albums? i'm by no means a gear expert at all... but i can tell you that i can get very close to the sound of some tracks on the album just with the Machinedrum UW & Analog Four, live and without any processing. Working with these boxes you can do rather complex sounding jams just by intuitively messing with knobs... add some special sounding MaxMSP effects stuff, and you're there... Rob & Sean doing extended jams on Elektron gear, multitrack recording, and then a lot of patience & attention to detail when editing/mixing/post-processing is how i think at least ca. half of the album is done... of course there are a lot of sounds on there which do not sound like the Elektron machines at all.. no idea wat gear that is and no idea whether they did some meticulous DAW construction work.... i doubt that for instance the jazz solo melodies in irlite are played with a keyboard or manually step sequenced.... i would guess it's some melody-generator MAX patch sending MIDI notes... but that's just an esoteric idea... no way to find out, innit. i think AE are really great at picking the right stuff from their recorded jam material and crafting very good actual tracks from that... but, on this album, i think they are deliberately playing with the notion of sounding like actual mediocre jamming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kieselguhr kid Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 here is fact mag's review: http://www.factmag.com/2013/02/18/autechre-exai-fact-review/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 even though he didn't love it i think it's one of the better reviews I've read. I more or less agree with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 well written review but I found that after the lovely description of gantz graf, I disagreed with him more and more as it went on. It's not a dark album (imo). It's psychedelic he doesn't mention how they've made a huge leap forward with the lovely spacious-yet-chewy sound design their music has long featured "rhythms that heave and fart". Since when is that a demerit? he loves bladelores (it's not bad but kinda....meh, compared to others?) it's all good tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 it's ginuwine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest the anonymous forumite Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 I agree that Bladelores and Cloudline fail to justify their length Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 i think he is spot on with that review, and i like how he points out its gloominess. I mean can AE use a different harmonic scale than the default AE minor something one for once? Its kind of like Tool using D minor all the time... i guess if you live in a world of D minor you don't even notice how sadface it is all the time. the most cliché AE melody on Exai has to be on 1 1 is... the feels of this track is what i'm talking about... not that it's necessarily a bad thing, it is what it is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 here is fact mag's review: http://www.factmag.com/2013/02/18/autechre-exai-fact-review/ "This is a dark record" - my thoughts as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apriorion Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 The rhythms "fart" their way into existence? What is with that expression? This FACT mag review brought to you by a thirteen year-old boy. Is this the vocabulary and expressive power we should now expect from professional journalists? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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