ledge OTM, this is the album where they stopped being just another Warp band. "Teartear" is probably my favourite ... pros: it's dramatic and sinister and totally amazing and all that. Cons: it's mechanical and stoic and really "cold" compared to the rest of the album, making it an appropriate lead-in to "Tri Repetae" (which was a digression, although if it had all sounded like "Teartear" then it wouldn't have been).
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 10:06 (thirteen years ago) link
tough... tracks are very much of a piece on this one. piezo is probably the right choice, but could be persuaded on pretty much anything from 5-11
― ¸¸.·´¯´·he'd sail across the bubbling waves·.¸¸.·´¯ (another al3x), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
This is my favourite Ae album but apparently I always listen to it as a whole without stopping to notice which track I'm on. That said, Montreal was my first thought.
I'm in the same boat, I'll have to listen again before I vote. This is also my favourite cover of any Warp release, the gatefold is beautiful.
― I am using your worlds, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Barry, that is challopsy if I might say re: Tri Repetae! We can discuss further when that poll goes up. "Foil" is to my ears fairly mechanical as well. It's not a cold, faceless mechanicalism, but more calculated and precise.
I'm a surprised that anyone might find "Teartear" melancholic -- it sounds so foreboding and menacing, with the big stomping percussion and the buzzing sounds. It's deeply terrifying, and thus probably my favorite, but I recently listened again (Amber was briefly my favorite Ae album, but I've been sleeping on it for a while now) and kind of realized/remembered just how tight it is.
― Cliff Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 04:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I agree that Tri Repetae is overrated, but I'll go into the reasons why on the next poll.
― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 08:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Yulquen is my favourite. Very close contenders are Further, Nil ans Montreal. I never liked Piezo all that much but i'll listen to it again.
― jed_, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 09:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Leeee, it's not challopsy if I've been saying it for 15 years!
(This was my favourite Autechre album for a long while ... I still think "Amber" and "Chiastic Slide" stand head and shoulders above their other albums)
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Chiastic Slide eh? That's a mindbending record - very hard to get into. Great album artwork though.
― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 30 October 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Nine... I think. It could be a number of tracks, but I remember Nine hitting me so hard the first times through, the melody and rhythm as one.
― abcfsk, Saturday, 30 October 2010 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Is that one of the Aphexy tracks?
― Cliff (Leee), Sunday, 31 October 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Bump.
― Ou sont les cankles d'antan? (Leee), Sunday, 31 October 2010 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
This was hard but I went for 'Yulquen', that one really is melancholic.
― Gavin in Leeds, Sunday, 31 October 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I have changed my mind about 60 times this week and now I'm voting for Further.
― what is he like? the guy's a juggalo, man (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 31 October 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 1 November 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Barry, is your fondness for this album due to its Canadianess?
― Ou sont les cankles d'antan? (Leee), Monday, 1 November 2010 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Tri RePOLLtae -- Autechre :: Tri Repetae :: LP3
― Ou sont les cankles d'antan? (Leee), Monday, 1 November 2010 04:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Slip was my second choice
― village idiot (dog latin), Monday, 1 November 2010 10:06 (thirteen years ago) link
That little moment at the end of Silverside, where you finally get to hear the full symphonic phrase that the rest of the track was only hinting at...damn beautiful moment, man. Might have voted it for that alone.
― you can expect punches, kicks and even worse (frogbs), Sunday, 15 April 2012 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
A really amazing "Amber"-era live recording:
http://www.factmag.com/2014/12/05/watch-autechre-set-brixton-quirky-1994/
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 8 December 2014 14:20 (nine years ago) link
SOLID
― ledge, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
man, i really dropped the ball in not giving this a fair chance. AMBER RULES.
― 1995 ball boy (Karl Malone), Friday, 4 September 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link