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

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.

also autechre now even more firmly cemented at the top of my last.fm charts, three times as many plays as the 2nd place.

Yeah, me too: http://www.last.fm/user/cccooorrreeeyyy

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.

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.

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.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Went with "r ess" if only because the beats are much more coherent to me, but "ilanders" came rilly close.

went with yuop, it's just such a perfect ending for this album

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

otm

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

mono!!

that just seems… improper.

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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

d-sho qub is one of the very best latter-day Ae tracks.

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Elvis is all sho qub

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.

d-sho qub would’ve been my vote

kinda think this is the jazziest autechre record

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.

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

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I love jazzy Autechre. EP7 and Incunabula are also pretty jazzy in places

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.

4. "pt2ph8" 4:10 0

actually maybe this would've been my vote, it merges beautifully

think this is my second fav autechre record