Reniform POLLs -- Autechre :: Draft 7.30 :: LP7

yeah, untilted might be my favorite popst-confield as well. 'iera' is the track that's really been doing it for me lately.

Did we ever poll all the winners from all the various Autechre polls? I'd like to make a playlist.

this is ilx, you'd imagine so

Cannae find a link cap'n!

i find this album very difficult. i guess a lot of people do. rewarding, but difficult. "xylin room" obviously a banger. "surripere" obv an 11 minute trip through the electromagnetic field, it's sick. love the way the beats disintegrate from a funky wholes into fragments rubbing against each other. but i still can't quite... figure it out

"IV VV IV VV VIII" is the music that's playing in the head of a giant turtle as she gnaws on the bloated corpses of the sailors

― every clint has a silva lining (nakhchivan), Saturday, December 11, 2010 6:40 AM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

this strikes me as correct

https://i.imgur.com/pQ1BMBB.png

"61e.CR" really goes also

^my favourite autechre song

also how dare they have a normal song title on this particular album

but it isn't actually normal lol

sudden roundabout is my *father*'s name!

their recent releases have had more real words in them but not once have they remotely risked making linear sense

it's pornographic for there to be any clarity at all in the sea of text that is an autechre tracklisting

'north spiral! yesss'

'but wait -'

https://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/2028/rochdale-clearly-not-in-bloom-at-sudden-roundabout

holy fuck :o

actually i take it back, this record is less difficult than i implied, i think "iv vv iv vv viii" just throws me, my brain can't wrap around what it's doing

perhaps its working title of 'prince moth mothy moth moth' will reveal its secrets

Still think of this as sparse, sonically and conceptually. time for another relisten i guess.

Also, reniform puls(e): kidney bean.

Anyone else seeing these revived polls pop up and getting hyped for LP14?

def need a new new lp thread

"xylin room" obviously a banger

i can't see this as a banger, where are the bangs? feels more like a confield texture piece, except the pieces on confield go places with furious intent and this kind of wanders around lost in a wood. which could be a good thing idk. should i try and find the bangs or appreciate the lost in a wood vibe, or is life too short for either of those.

iv vv etc, still lost in the wood, getting angry and beating up some trees.

6ie.cr: making a log cabin

much of this album has woody, knotted feel for me. It's all creaky floorboards and complicated pulley systems

i can't see this as a banger, where are the bangs?

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i can't see this as a banger, where are the bangs?

the pattern that opens the track and rules it for most of its runtime... knocks

george_michael_bluth_with_woodblock.gif

i find it hard to imagine loving Untilted but not being as into Draft7.30 - they feel something of a pair to me.

hmmm not sure i agree. inasmuch as confield, draft, and untilted should be def grouped together, sure. but the beats on untilted are considerably more linear (as much as you can say that about anything autechre produced in this period), whereas for the first half of draft it's mostly morphing aquatic lifeforms

Untitled really threw me at first in that it's so beat driven and there was very little in the way of tonal sounds. it's grown on me loads since of course. B-boy breaks for impossible robots in a gigantic stadium

But then something like V-Proc is very breaksy. you're right that the start of Draft is all about implacable ebb and flow though

I listened to this again after Brad said he had trouble with it. I think I do prefer it slightly over Untilted, but they make a nice pair:

Untilted's beats are hard, bouncy and metallic. It makes me think of that old Amiga game Speedball in that it sounds like a futuristic spectator sport set in an enormous stadium. By comparison the beats on Draft7.30 are crunchy, wooden and brackish. I've always felt like there's a slight maritime theme on this one - especially the first few tracks which make me feel like I'm in the hold of an old wooden ship, the textures propelled by the ebbing of waves, the creaking of floorboards and ropes being pulled tight, the wind blowing everything along in gusts. There's something really interesting about the quality of the beats they've used on this one comapred to the gigantic pinball machine of Untilted.

This is the Autechre album that has risen the furthest (and slowest) in my estimation. It's taken 20 years but I unequivocally love it

please don't tell me this record is TWENTY YEARS old, it's part of the "new Ae" for me.
noting for the record that "xylin room" as a title is a nod to the wooden sources they used for a lot of the sounds on the album.