(get POLL) -- Autechre: Exai LP11

I quite like the fact Nodezsh is basically a deconstructed version of Rae Sremmurd's 'No Type'. spl9 bangs hard!

Voted Nodezsh. And jogging monkey.

only thing that really irritates me is that CD skip effect on "1 1 is". really thought something was wrong with my copy until I listened to it on Youtube

Should be a thread for songs that convince you there’s a malfunction. See also stereolab cobra - wherein a subtle way it sounds like a car with hydraulics n bass is driving by. Had to check myself that it wasn’t the song

the worst are the ones with a faint police siren in the background

Lol yeah

btw listening to parts of this and Amber (due to the two polls on ILM now), they're really not so different

the only two I really know as standouts are bladelores and irlite

I had a listen to this (for what was probably only the third time) the other day and yeah it's between these two for me.

can't unsee little jogging monkey

Voted bladelordes without no Clue of what it sounded like. Eris would be proud. Turns out it was dope

Flep is seriously underrated

umm, cloudline
but spl9 bangs

Flep is seriously underrated

same with YJY UX

i always see happy clown face

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i'm a little surprised. i thought it would be like 4 votes for bladelores and then tumbleweeds

hype thread. this one was a nail biter

surprised bladelores didn't do better. But fuck yeah recks on!

I love how (keyosc) was titled to fuck with the WATMM fanboys. (and yes I guess I am one too)

'prac-f' into 'jatevee C' is such a great transition. There's so much to love on this record, though (well, if you're an Autechre fan, that is - I still expect anyone who hasn't got into Autechre's approach to be completely alienated by it)

is it weird that i find this one of the most accessible autechre records

"irlite" is basically house music for about two minutes

no it's not weird, i think this was one of those records where people talked about them going back to a more accessible sound after the Confield/Draft/Untilted run

that it manages to be very catchy while also being contorted heavily by the same wormhole that effects elseq and the nts sessions is something

i guess i think of oversteps as the most pleasant autechre record on earth so idk why this surprises me

i don't find it accessible, lots of aimless, jerky beats and too many tracks seem to be made out of the same sound (i mean internally, different elements as transformations of each other timbrally, and from track to track, not as much tracky distinctiveness)

i find it extremely listenable too, i used to just put it on repeat on long drives etc

Listening back to this one. I'm not sure how to feel about it now despite having a lot to say about it back then.

It certainly has its moments, and Bladelore and Irlite feel totemic, but a lot of the rest just blurs into one monochromatic sound without too much standing out to me, like a scrolling tapestry of Autechre music with the odd little remarkable moment bubbling to the surface for the blink of an ear.

I quite liked tuinorizn this time round - not a track I'd really noticed before. But this one sounds like the sort of thing I could have on in the background and passing me by entirely, while closer listening doesn't unveil much in the way of variety. I guess I feel rather similar about Elseq and NTS Sessions (so in that respect Exai/Elseq/NTS are also part of a mindcanonical trilogy to me). It's not that I don't like them, but they seem to be more about endurance listening. Sign/Plus felt like a refreshing break away from that - much more immediate, more pop, more varied in terms of timbre.

feel like it might be cool to listen to this as a 4xLP, where you can just put on a different record every day, because one thing I noticed is when I'm listening to this in the car over the span of like 4-5 days every track on it sounds awesome, but when I'm powering through it all at once I feel like my head's been spinning around a cement mixer. kinda true with the NTS Sessions too, with 1-3 I always have cool thoughts about the first few tracks, then you reach hour two and suddenly you just zone out. if I reverse the order of the records though it feels like a totally new experience, since you're hearing the deeper cuts without reaching that aural fatigue stage. idk maybe I just ain't as hardcore as these guys need me to be.

this is one of their very best and low key hookiest albums

i see i said the same thing a few years ago lol

yeah there are a lot of hooks in this thing, in the context of ae it's fairly accessible. they distill some of the most 'iconic' spaces they've been to in the longer recent works on here. production / mastering is also super sweet.

Out of all their albums that have never quite clicked for me this is the one I'd most like to change my mind on. The four lp approach would probably be the way to go - otoh I've never really come round to one of their albums once I've (more or less) written it off. Still, no harm in trying.