Autechre Exai

Going for the 24bit so ... this will take a while

got a server error ...IT BEGINS

raaaaaaah

this is sick m8s

The Bleep page is down. :\

mine's here, flacs, 690MB

kinda cursing the fact I have a chromebook, would pay £8 for access to a stream

meanwhile if you could all just post your reviews here that'd whet me nicely

I'm trying really hard to procure this legally (the vinyl in particular), but I haven't been able to add my credit card to Bleep yet. Anyone else having luck with this site?

Finally got it. Preeeeetty excited. Not sure if this'll make for good listening while I work, though.

Having just a BIT of trouble getting my download started.

ditto. damn i should have dropboxed it from work.

I've been trying to purchase this for the last couple of hours. Finally got my credit card info entered, am now attempting to download. In the meantime I found a torrent of this and am already listening.

mp3s a big 'un, 238mb and still going

Incredible.

They're waging war on my ears and brain.

haaaaaaang

now i know why it's called 'bleep'

now amazonaws is hanging

lunacy

180 Kb/s

bugger this crap, going to work

everything else downloads at 1900 Kb/s, but fortunately i have got all fucking day

I dunno what happened to them today. I spent about an hour and a half trying to get it for some perverse reason. Now I've got it and I'm happy.

if i chose to steal it i would be listening to it by now

I paid for it and then stole it, which is ridiculous but at least I'm listening to it

none of y'all being str8-up, maybe the record isn't either

if draft 7.30 is comfortably in my top 20 albums of all time, will I like this

you have 01 days to comply

It's 2 hours long and it's not their most accessible record. Going to take a while to say anything definitive.

half-formed impressions are preferable to definitive thought-out opinions, this is autechre

(i.e. I find their music to be purely psychedelic and right-hemisphere-seeking, despite the obvious mathematics, algorithms of the whole thing - it inspires something visceral, the pure response of joy-without-thinking - it's maths-as-art rather than art-as-maths, which you could say the majority of verse-chorus music is)

My 1st impression (as someone who basically shares your impression of Autechre) is that this is exactly that.

oshit, can't wait to get home!!!

first/second thoughts, all subject to revision. pre-confield autechre aka pop autechre is dead. they're not coming back. get over it. (this is a note to self more than anything.) echoes of draft and oversteps all over this. 1st disc more beat-happy, 2nd more ambient and hasn't hooked me in yet. cloudlines would not belong on amber. bladelores is lovely, ok maybe liking those fat synth waves is the easy option, i don't care.

"irlite" is totally Chiastic Slide. Catchy as hell. Liking the 2nd half more on first listen. Several big tracks, first listen didn't reveal much sense of an album, but maybe not the point.

After my initial excitement, I'm rather concerned that a lot of the sounds I'm hearing are very reminiscent of Oversteps.

xpost

totally the figure at the beginning irlite is lovely. waiting for them to destroy it. it's currently waiting anxiously in the corner.

Only played a few tracks so far. Seems quite brutal.

2nd more ambient

might have been lying here

spl9 is just ripping my face off anyway

second listen

"irlite" is totally Chiastic Slide. Catchy as hell.

totally the figure at the beginning irlite is lovely. waiting for them to destroy it. it's currently waiting anxiously in the corner.

both otm

i just did a rewind on jatevee C, can't remember doing that on an autechre album for a while

Sounded great very loud this afternoon.

i'm not heaps far into this but it's already impressive. 'T ess xi' is gorgeous.

i came here to post just that.

ace

oh man, "jatevee C" into "T ess xi". so good!

just got to "recks on" - daaaaaaaaaaaaamn

tess xi has the worst beat, ever. amybe worse than "akunk"

This album is a joyful listen.

some of their best work imo

i like "akunk" xps

I could imagine Momus singing over the first 29 seconds of T ess xi.

Does this work better on headphones or speakers? I really wish I could listen to this just a bit louder.

speakers is best IMO. Better sense of space.

Odd question, but are you guys finding this album, uh... challenging compared to previous albums?