Are you telling me this is AE: SIGN? (Autechre LP 14)

this disembodied marimbas thing is great
and NEW
how are they always new?

haha fair, here are the good bits:

“I hadn’t felt that solid about putting together an album in a while,” Booth said.

“We started building up the rig in the summer of 2018, right after the Australian tour,” Booth said.

“The MIDI keyboard only handles a very limited set of information,” Booth says. “And it’s based on the piano, a very specific instrument from a very specific time. We’re just using MAX to be more compositional in what we do.”

The duo worked on tracks for over a year, finishing in February of 2020, before lockdown.

“We’d get in touch and it would turn out we were doing the same kind of thing, without even talking,” Brown said. “I’m not sure we could do it in the same room now. But we’re often thinking the exact same thing.”

Like what?

“Ah . . . that’s lush—fuck.”

gently burbling programmatic music w mean ole bass

There's some really interesting, subtle delay FX on those marimbas that have been building over the whole track in the background there

and that dry muffled kick I always love

there are a couple more quotes in the article ... for those who DARE

gently burbling programmatic music w mean ole bass

― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, October 8, 2020 1:19 PM (fifty-two seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

the core, the heart music

omg jerk my tears why dont u

Oh HELL yeah. Oversteps 2 is exactly what I wanted

this is incredible so far

woot

This is easily the first Ae album fans who departed in 2001 might actually enjoy. Much more so than even Oversteps.

it's very complex in a melodic way. 2-4 have been basically ambient.

beat back tho

the funk

snappin

8-bit chirpin

into it

Sakamoto vibes

the expanding universe

this reminds me of fennesz a little bit!

oh man it's so pretty

most flat out beautiful track they've done in a decade

feeling like i'm trapped in a slow-motion horror film and klaus schulze did the soundtrack

yeah I already like the beatless tracks here better than all the beatless tracks on NTS (and I'm a freak for NTS)

very emotional

ok we're gonkin

The comment above about "How are they always new?" is ringing hard with this.

ok we're gonkin

― J. Sam, Thursday, October 8, 2020 1:37 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

like a streamlined nts jam, really sick

I already preordered the LP and the stream keeps cutting out so I'm gonna bail on this but I loved everything I heard

this one

feel like the beat tracks are interludes between the ambient tracks, which are the highlight! another gorgeous one

oh man this is soooo good

"gr4" more like gr8

feel like the beat tracks are interludes between the ambient tracks, which are the highlight!

otm

gah don't stop

gr4, of all the songs so far, deserves the 20 minute NTS treatment haha

i gotta lie down

aoty

yes

for real

properness

And Brad came in late! The opener was probably their best opener since Cipater

yes and it's probably not even in the top 5 tracks so far

ooo let's have a fight about an album that we haven't finished listening to yet cuz i stan the opener

these chords could mash up well with I've had the time of my life from Dirty Dancing lol

just absolutely losing my shit to this one ("th red a")

why isn't this out until next friday! i already want to hear it 300 more times

these chords get better the more i hear them. this is gonna be a blissed out headphones album for sure. shame i never get to bliss out with headphones any more!

wow some super abrupt endings to these tracks.

This square wave synth sound is something I haven't heard from them since literally Amber.