I just like the idea of Warp letting Sean do a vocal track because they feel sorry for him
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Monday, 19 October 2020 12:42 (three years ago) link
lol at that post, guess I have to listen to this eh
― Chip-vill-A (imago), Monday, 19 October 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link
That post is screaming for a vocal rendition.
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 October 2020 14:18 (three years ago) link
I'm feeling both reactions on the thread...on the one hand, I'm into the album and it's a pleasant October surprise for Autechre to allow warm tones and human sentiment into their music.
On the other hand, it sounds like it could be the soundtrack to a Villaneuve movie. Which isn't really a slight, but it's maybe the first album in forever that sounds like it could (or would) have been made by someone else.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 19 October 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
FP'd you for flashbacks to Hans Zimmer's crime-against-humanity reworking of Pink Floyd's 'Eclipse'.
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 October 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
lol
Trailers don't count though, they're their own special musical hellscape
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 19 October 2020 15:27 (three years ago) link
Fair enough, exception granted.
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 October 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
This is definitely more ambient and soundtrack-y than most of their stuff. I've occasionally wondered if they would ever do (or if someone was interested in using them for) soundtrack work. I think they'd be good at it.
― silverfish, Monday, 19 October 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
I think I killed my enjoyment of this record by listening to both it and Oversteps for the first time last week, and Oversteps is by miles the more interesting and prettier record.
― Matt DC, Monday, 19 October 2020 16:00 (three years ago) link
they both have a lot in common to be fair. for a while i was convinced some of the tracks on SIGN were remixes/re-versions of Oversteps tunes, but apparently not
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Monday, 19 October 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
Wow apparently I need to revisit Oversteps
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 19 October 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
right now I'm hearing Depeche Mode's Behind The Wheel sung over the top of psin AM
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Monday, 19 October 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link
I also want to somehow make the claim that this is the first Ae album where very smart people can't make the by-now common observation that this is still hip hop influenced music deep down; but I'm not sure what to think of this myself even
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Monday, 19 October 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
I think I've said before a couple of times this on this board but Oversteps/Move of Ten is probably the most underrated autechre era. I'm happy that they came back to this and I would love for SIGN to be their starting off point for going deeper into this sound.
― silverfish, Monday, 19 October 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
that idea is terrifying to me for some reasonxpost
― lukas, Monday, 19 October 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
This is their droniest album, which explains why I'm liking this.
― I want to luhbahguh babum gum (Leee), Monday, 19 October 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
I, ah, um, have you heard NTS Sessions? Also Amber feels way more droned out to me, e.g. Yulquen.
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 19 October 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
hey my copy finally arrived
― frogbs, Monday, 19 October 2020 20:48 (three years ago) link
still waiting for mine
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 19 October 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
already has more ratings on RYM than all the elseqs and NTS Sessions in case you're wondering how them releasing a digestible album is going
― frogbs, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 01:44 (three years ago) link
does anyone get excited when psin AM comes on? it's like the honeydew melon of this delicious fruit salad of an album.
― lukas, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 03:01 (three years ago) link
it sounds like something off of Black Dog's Bytes, and I mean that in the best possible way obv
― frogbs, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 03:34 (three years ago) link
I went back to Oversteps and it's tight, you all are right that the tones have more in common with the new one that I remembered, and it's got that lush reverb too. There are moments of 'Treale' that could genuinely be sampled & looped for a rap track too.
Thinking about how their drum sounds & patterns are what usually keeps ae sequestered in their own experimental/IDM zone. Taking out or de-emphasizing the beats on SIGN instantly put it in the same world as other ambient & soundtrack-y music, for better and/or worse.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
I wouldn't say it's solely their drum sounds & patterns - they have quite a distinct style of sound design and sound creation, e.g. the amazing robot gargling on pendulu hv moda or the darwinian tangled bank of elyc6 onset. That's still present here, though less so in some tracks.
― neith moon (ledge), Thursday, 22 October 2020 08:01 (three years ago) link
Came today, picked it up on way in at 8, listening to it at just past midnight. Probably not ideal.
― koogs, Friday, 23 October 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
not gonna say it's a grower, cuz i liked it immediately. but i still like it, and differently than when i first heard it. will unquestionably dig this out in ten years when i'm looking for "that 2020 feeling".
― lukas, Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:22 (three years ago) link
yeah the mood of this album hasn't lost its hold on me, i still listen to it a lot. it helps that even though it's more subdued and melodic, it still feels like everything could fall apart at any moment.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 12 November 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
this is v nice. I was almost suspicious at first by how easy it went down but there's still a lot to hear on repeat listens
the other day my dad showed up during one of the quieter passages & dismissed it as massage parlour music. he didn't know why I found that hilarious
― You guys are ridiculous because I’m more on the left than you (Left), Friday, 13 November 2020 00:53 (three years ago) link
giving this a wee break and then coming back to it is very rewarding. Much like I find with Boards of Canada, the quality of these chord progressions start taking on an almost ancient quality, like they've always been there in the back of my head. When those big chords finally sound out during the intro to Metaz form8, it's like the door to a pyramid suddenly scrpaing away
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Friday, 13 November 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
I don't know why I buy these albums on vinyl: most of the experience comes from listening on decent headphones which I can't do with records on my set-up.
realised this when 'r cazt' clicked with me last night just as I was falling asleep with the headphones still on. thought it was a bit of a dirge, but there are these wonderful higher notes that come in and punctuate the deeper chords later on and fill it with a jazzy human-ness
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Thursday, 19 November 2020 11:50 (three years ago) link
that said, the record arrived today and is sounding lovely.
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Friday, 20 November 2020 12:39 (three years ago) link
said it already but X4 has to rate as one of the best Ae tunes in years. Just so much going on in it, and I love the Arabic-style scale that flitters in and out during the middle section
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Friday, 20 November 2020 12:53 (three years ago) link
I need to check if it's sitting in my mailbox
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 20 November 2020 12:55 (three years ago) link
if you've got the vinyl version of this, try listening to it at 45 RPM. it's way more chaotic, like the Autechre you're used to
― frogbs, Monday, 23 November 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link
Never really dug into Autechre before now, but I'm loving SIGN so much. PLUS should get here tomorrow.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 23 November 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
My CD of PLUS was in my PO box this morning.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 23 November 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
still waiting on my LPs, hoping they show up today
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 23 November 2020 21:03 (three years ago) link
My copy of SIGN, which I preordered, arrived yesterday. God knows when I can expect PLUS.
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 23 November 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
yeah PLUS just arrived for me
― frogbs, Monday, 23 November 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
My PLUS and SIGN LPs showed up but the packaging was all mashed. Very annoyed.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 23 November 2020 23:45 (three years ago) link
having had these albums a few weeks, i'm really starting to get interested in the final few seconds of some of these tracks, just the last few bars after the main bit of the track has finished. there's always been something really interesting about how Ae seem to peel back the layers of a track on the outro of tunes like Garbagemx or Cichli, but here it's often just the last 5 seconds, you barely notice them
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
They also have an interesting tendency of having a new song movement or a bit of a track's chaos to coalesce into something more accessible right as a track ends.
ecol4 on PLUS is a fantastic example as well as Parhelic Triangle on Confield - the latter exposes a very pretty melody that really only begins surfacing in the last minute and then is laid bare as the beats are faded out.
SIGN and PLUS though seem to really focus on track endings though, more so than past records. Every single track on PLUS has an extended outtro (save ecol4 where the outtro is the beat getting exceptionally funky).
― octobeard, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link
never even noticed that about parhelic triangle before.
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/tnKBm0C4Lr— Emily Jeanne (@emilyjeannedb) October 8, 2020
― cosmic vision | bleak epiphany | erotic email (map), Friday, 27 November 2020 22:52 (three years ago) link
M4 Lema played on radio 3 "New Music Show" on saturday night
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000q39k
― koogs, Sunday, 6 December 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
I did it!
https://i.imgur.com/Ij7rV5A.jpg
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Monday, 21 December 2020 11:33 (three years ago) link
with thanks to map for the idea
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Monday, 21 December 2020 11:34 (three years ago) link
omg that shirt
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
also i got so focused on plus i nearly forgot how good sign is
pretty much every time I listen to either PLUS or SIGN, I afterwards put on the other one. This definitely feels like one double album to me.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link