9POLL1POLL1--5l-l -- Autechre :: Quaristice :: LP9

Previously: POLL Radii -- Autechre :: Untilted :: LP8

― Leeeline Supplement No. 74 (Leee), Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:36 (2 years ago) Permalink

Altibzz

― salvia divanorum (nakhchivan), Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:36 (2 years ago) Permalink

Simmm, paralel Suns and the last three are nice

too many lil tracks that disrupt any sort of cohesion -- i thought i'd rly like this from stated influences in early computer music etc, but i seldom listen to it

quaristice quadrange opens a few of the tracks up and is less irritating

― salvia divanorum (nakhchivan), Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:39 (2 years ago) Permalink

After my dear love, the flawless Untilted, this came as somewhat of a disappointment to me. I enjoy it OK, but also can't really recall much about it when not listening to it, and in the end so many tracks just meant I'm more prone to skipping like a mad.

― abcfsk, Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:44 (2 years ago) Permalink

<3 this album, but it's hard for me to think of the tracks individually — it all seems very much "of a piece".

That said, I'll probably vote for "Simmm".

― which ear is the queer ear (corey), Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:47 (2 years ago) Permalink

i thought this one was fun, Simmm also being my favourite.

― Ludo, Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:53 (2 years ago) Permalink

A welcome respite from the Draft/Untilted direction (though I will admit that revisiting Draft, I can actually enjoy it now), getting back to the warmer tones, but I also don't love this, having seldom listened to it. Maybe '00s Autechre fatigue. Based on recent listens, I'm almost definitely going with one of the ambient tracks, probably "Notwo."

― Leeeline Supplement No. 74 (Leee), Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:58 (2 years ago) Permalink

I must admit I haven't listened to the last 2 albums yet cos of people saying they were a welcome respite from Draft and Untilted.

― Pardew: "They Know It's Christmas" (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 December 2010 22:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

Understandable.

― abcfsk, Sunday, 12 December 2010 22:58 (2 years ago) Permalink

They're not a respite, just different.

― which ear is the queer ear (corey), Sunday, 12 December 2010 23:06 (2 years ago) Permalink

FWIW Oversteps is my favorite album released this year.

― which ear is the queer ear (corey), Sunday, 12 December 2010 23:06 (2 years ago) Permalink

I must admit I haven't listened to the last 2 albums yet cos of people saying they were a welcome respite from Draft and Untilted.

― Pardew: "They Know It's Christmas" (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 December 2010 22:56 (10 minutes ago)

ha!

i seem to remember even draft being described at its release as more accessible than confield? i'd say each new ae album since then has been a little less difficult than the previouse one

i like oversteps a lot, it could maybe have been edited a little, a few tracks seem almost /prog/ in their insensate prolixity, like why not have a few more loops of synth wibble?

but it's the best display since lp5 of their ear for melody, truly a word that needs reclaiming from the hongrists

― salvia divanorum (nakhchivan), Sunday, 12 December 2010 23:10 (2 years ago) Permalink

nah I'll hear them eventually, probably this week cos of these polls, but my take is that the denser stuff from Chiastic Slide onwards (positing 5 as a slight side-step) is easily their best and most satisfying work so when I read people cheering for a "return" to their earlier accessibility I wasn't particularly interested.

― Pardew: "They Know It's Christmas" (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 December 2010 23:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

yeah, but u never get the sense with autechre that they're driven by a need to please campaign for real idm dullards

nothing wrong with waiting to catch up, i'm still sleeping on 'move of ten'

― salvia divanorum (nakhchivan), Sunday, 12 December 2010 23:14 (2 years ago) Permalink

yeah tbf I do trust their instincts.

― la dame aux chlamydias (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 December 2010 23:18 (2 years ago) Permalink

plyphon because it terrifies me.

― laser precise purpose maker era, Monday, 13 December 2010 03:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

Simmm, paralel Suns and the last three are nice

I'll co-sign this, the longer tracks are my favourites on this album.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 13 December 2010 07:42 (2 years ago) Permalink

too many lil tracks that disrupt any sort of cohesion

otm

quaristice quadrange opens a few of the tracks up

or lets them drag on needlessly...

i also got the Versions limited disc, which meant i was just overwhelmed with a vast selection of tracks, often with little to distinguish between them. However Versions does have Altichyre, the most gorgeous set of mysterious synth chord progressions. All ambient ae fans should check it out immediately.

― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Monday, 13 December 2010 09:46 (2 years ago) Permalink

Such a great album but (as usual with these threads) I have to go back and play the whole thing noting the track names as I go #autechtrelisteningclub

― leo tldrstoy (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 13 December 2010 09:48 (2 years ago) Permalink

especially hard with this one's 20 tracks. am working on my own search/destroy as we speak.

― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Monday, 13 December 2010 10:15 (2 years ago) Permalink

yeah tbf I do trust their instincts.

― la dame aux chlamydias (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 December 2010 23:18 (Yesterday) Bookmark
^^^me too, I think I might sometimes place a little too much faith in Autechre, but if you're a fan I guess you kind of have to. The key to appreciating them is all too often to "relax and go with it".

This is the Ae album I've probably listened to the least, despite being the album that saved them from the brink for me at the time. I was very very pleased with it - loved that they'd regained a bit of melody and that the tracks were more like short sketches or ideas rather than 16 minute beat armageddons. It feels somewhat more human than anything they've done since Amber. That said, I couldn't begin to tell you which track is my favourite. If Simm is the one that sounds like an enormous robot blowing up a chicken farm, then it's that one.

I think Ae suffered from releasing too much material at the same time with this one - a fairly long album and two album-length EPs during the Quaristice phase totalling around 4 hours worth of music. I'm not going to be voting in the Quadrange poll, as it's pretty much just different versions of this album. I do like the way the accompanying EPs work almost as "behind the scenes" or studio outtakes for this band, showing that yes, they're very much a band who have the ability to jam and rearrange their music.

― What are you doing here? (dog latin), Monday, 13 December 2010 10:34 (2 years ago) Permalink

ok my S&D. S: SImm, Notwo, rale, paralel Suns, Tankakern, Theswere, Chenc9, 90101-5l-1 - more than I was expecting! D: Perlence, Steels, fol3, fWZE, bnc Castl. The last two, bnc Castl in particular, remind me of this historical curio:

― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Monday, 13 December 2010 11:04 (2 years ago) Permalink

wow, that was bizarre!

― which ear is the queer ear (corey), Monday, 13 December 2010 14:00 (2 years ago) Permalink

ledge, it's weird that, considering our divergent tastes in Autechre's '00s output, my S&D is pretty much the same as yours, at least for Quaristice. I can't recall what "Tankakern," "Theswere," or "Chenc9" sound like off the top of my head, but the others all sound aces to me.

Still, even as I'm revisiting these tracks, the album overall doesn't affect me much, certainly not to the point of owning a copy myself.

― penis with a man hanging from it (Leee), Monday, 13 December 2010 17:36 (2 years ago) Permalink

"Tankakern" seems like a nod to the Incunabula sound

― which ear is the queer ear (corey), Monday, 13 December 2010 17:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

I'm not going to be voting in the Quadrange poll, as it's pretty much just different versions of this album.

― penis with a man hanging from it (Leee), Monday, 13 December 2010 17:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

I love that Adrian Sherwood 'People Are People' mix. His mix of 'Master and Servant' is up there too but not quite as torn apart as that.

I didn't listen to this that much on release, but it sure sounded great this week. Some of my favorite moments on Confield are the transitions between tracks, and this one's -all- transitions. Reminds me of The Faust Tapes.

Both this one and Untitled seemed more immediate, more like a series of live improvisations captured live to disk without too much layering after the fact. And where Untitled seemed (very) unedited, this one was all edits. And in a move that's either brilliantly transparent or really self-indulgent, they then released the longer 7-8 minute versions as the limited edition bonus disk, and then on top of that released what seem to be the largely intact jams as a series of ep's so you can really hear the process. Some of the pieces do seem more accessible when you hear them at full length, it would have been a bit similar to previous albums, this one's about the array. Definitely like it more than Untilted, which is good but y'know some of the tracks just go on for a bit -- this one keeps it coming

That being said, for both of these albums, they really saved their best new music for their live tours. It was music specifically designed to sound incredible in clubs, and it did.

― Milton Parker, Monday, 13 December 2010 17:46 (2 years ago) Permalink

Unfortunately the "club" I saw this in was a freezing cold car park at 1am, well in line with their reputation for difficult shows, but not very conducive to party fun times.

ledge, it's weird that, considering our divergent tastes in Autechre's '00s output, my S&D is pretty much the same as yours, at least for Quaristice.

I daresay my picks are on the populist side of things - not a criticism of your taste! But like you I'm not inclined to spend any more time getting to know the ins and outs of the album. Even though I shelled out for it on mp3 and the limited edition CD and all the EPs. Ah the curse of the fanboy.

― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Monday, 13 December 2010 23:39 (2 years ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 18 December 2010 00:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

Cannot pick a best track. God knows I've tried. Don't get me wrong, I love the album, but nothing stands out.

― I mean Emma Watson Premier League fit (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 18 December 2010 00:07 (2 years ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 19 December 2010 00:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

could probably have spaced these polls out a bit to increase traffic/discussion

― nakhchivan, Sunday, 19 December 2010 00:05 (2 years ago) Permalink

POLLwn(1) -- POLL=0 -- POLLversteps -- Autechre :: Oversteps :: LP10

― penis with a man hanging from it (Leee), Sunday, 19 December 2010 18:43 (2 years ago) Permalink

This whole shebang has taken 10 weeks, I think that's fairly spaced out already? (Unless people generally want more time in between?)

― penis with a man hanging from it (Leee), Sunday, 19 December 2010 18:44 (2 years ago) Permalink

I must have put this and the Quadrange outtakes on my phone at some point. Quadrange EPs are a mixed bag, but I've caught myself kind of grooving to a couple tracks so far this morning

― your native bacon (mh), Friday, 10 August 2012 16:47 (9 months ago) Permalink