I think I listened to all the songs on this album twice and it none of them had any emotion for me. they only had atmosphere
I haven't voted in any autechre poll since Gantz Graf but I'm tempted to listen to this album yet again
― more affecting actually. (CaptainLorax), Sunday, 19 December 2010 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link
This isn't emotional?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGA68vYFytw
― keep amanda leared (corey), Sunday, 19 December 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
well there was one track I liked and that seems like the one (47 seconds in)
― more affecting actually. (CaptainLorax), Sunday, 19 December 2010 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
...But on a track or two I did imagine a marsh at night full of tall trees with reddish bark being lit up by passing will 'o' the wisps among tin sounding machinery still churning away in the saturated overgrowth of moon-lit marsh
Needs more listens
― CaptainLorax, Saturday, February 13, 2010 10:45 PM (10 months ago)
I need to figure out what song I was thinking of at the time
― more affecting actually. (CaptainLorax), Sunday, 19 December 2010 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
before i get stuck into this, thanks to leee for running the polls. i've really enjoyed revisiting all the records, and the ensuing discussions, and i feel like i've come to an even deeper appreciation of the music.
― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Sunday, 19 December 2010 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link
also autechre now even more firmly cemented at the top of my last.fm charts, three times as many plays as the 2nd place.
― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Monday, 20 December 2010 09:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, me too: http://www.last.fm/user/cccooorrreeeyyy
― keep amanda leared (corey), Monday, 20 December 2010 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Definitely the best since Confield. A very consistent sonic palette, and sense of atmosphere, they probably haven't been this consistent-sounding since Amber/Tri Repetae. It also more directly harks back to Amber with some of the ambient pieces, pt2ph8 and os veix3 would probably not seem too out of place on that record. But this isn't a step back, the influence of Confield is still strong here - in fact, arguably they have found something of a ideal middle ground between their Amber-era melodies and their Confield-era less melodic, more textural work.
I sympahtise with Lorax a little tho, although heavy with the atmosphere not all of the tracks are emotionally affecting, but there's a good third that push my buttons, and only a couple leave me really cold. Top three for me, in no particular order:
os-veix-3. I love the space in this, and the sense of sadness or regret that is not overwhelming, just gently hinted at.
known(1). on top of the multiplicity of metallophone melodies (alliteration lolz) there is a demented squawking, a chaotic element that almost eclipses the order beneath. And which sounds grebt.
Yuop. The end of Atlantis, not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a majestic sliding under the ocean currents, which silently close again over the top.
O=0 is a bit wibbly for me, but I love the vastness that opens out in the last few seconds. It occurs to me that endings are something that ae have always been fantastic at, from the long, slow, mournful wind-downs, to the long, slow, descents into chaos, to the fragmentary melodic codas.
― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Monday, 20 December 2010 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Yuss, Autechre are very much about the endings. The moving from A->B, whihc I always thought they weren't so hot on in Confield.
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Monday, 20 December 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Huh, I always thought that the transitions between tracks on Confield were especially strong. (Maybe I should have posted this on the Confield thread so as to bring 5 Autechre pollz onto the front page.)
ledge, thanks, it's been instructive for me as well as, in some points, a surprise and delight, especially with this album. First two tracks are the strongest, I think -- very warm Amber-esque (maybe even Incunabula-esque) melodies, but with contorted Confield beats == the direction I wish B&B had immediately gone in this past decade.
― penis with a man hanging from it (Leee), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 24 December 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Went with "r ess" if only because the beats are much more coherent to me, but "ilanders" came rilly close.
― penis with a man hanging from it (Leee), Friday, 24 December 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
went with yuop, it's just such a perfect ending for this album
― peter in montreal, Friday, 24 December 2010 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 25 December 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Saturday, 25 December 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
most of my relistening the last few weeks have all been on earbuds and I had never really noticed before the percentage of autechre that is recorded in mono
this album is not in mono
― Milton Parker, Saturday, 25 December 2010 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
mono!!
that just seems… improper.
― j., Sunday, 26 December 2010 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link
https://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3ms5mYb8K1rs81xfo1_500.gif
― j., Thursday, 11 December 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
cannot believe this thing is 71 minutes long. it really breezes by.
I think every tune is great but in particular d-sho qub and Treale = wow
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 April 2016 14:59 (seven years ago) link
d-sho qub is one of the very best latter-day Ae tracks.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Thursday, 28 April 2016 15:45 (seven years ago) link
http://www.jimis-cyberstore.com/store/media/elv-471-tall.jpg
Elvis is all sho qub
― I've had Eno, ugh (ledge), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 12:31 (seven years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/steve-lehman-the-people-i-love/
Elsewhere, Taborn reimagines some of the sound of the saxophonist’s past groups—most memorably in his work on a tune like “Beyond All Limits,” where his vaulting intervals stand in for some of the more thickly orchestrated material from Lehman’s octet. And he also knows when to pull back, as on “qPlay,” the Autechre cover. After establishing some of the harmony from the original track, the pianist hangs in the background, allowing the song to become a feature for Brewer and Reid, who jointly adapt Autechre’s unpredictably pulsing electronic sound for jazz-quartet context.
― j., Saturday, 14 September 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link
d-sho qub would’ve been my vote
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 04:21 (three years ago) link
kinda think this is the jazziest autechre record
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 04:22 (three years ago) link
good lord, known(1) is my least favorite track on this. d-sho would have been mine too, so alas, we could have had a tie.
― octobeard, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 05:27 (three years ago) link
side note - I kinda wish we could vote on these again... I feel the Autechre fanbase present on ILM has grown considerably over the years.
look everyone put on a few kilos over lockdown, there's no need to get personal about it
― assert (MatthewK), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 05:52 (three years ago) link
ಠ_ಠ
― octobeard, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 08:22 (three years ago) link
I love jazzy Autechre. EP7 and Incunabula are also pretty jazzy in places
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 11:32 (three years ago) link
d-sho qub only getting one vote is indeed weird.
that is weird, but hardly anyone voted in this poll.
Looks like I voted for yuop, which I still think is the correct choice.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
4. "pt2ph8" 4:10 0
actually maybe this would've been my vote, it merges beautifully
think this is my second fav autechre record
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 13 December 2020 15:25 (three years ago) link