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

it's like 80% very straightforwardly pretty. kind of a beach at sunset album imo. definitely not what i was expecting.

I think I heard the last two tracks because I only just got done with work and realized why this thread kept popping up to the top of new answers

I might actually get this though & I've felt this band were taking the piss for, like, decades

can't wait to listen to it in higher res

uhhh apparently you can download the album from the store.

how. do you just check out the pre order download?

yes. oops.

not listening to it again today though. have things to do, need to recover.

oh thanks for the info, i have now purchased it :D

Oh my, the site said "DOWNLOAD: 0 OF 11 TRACKS" but I clicked the link and it's downloading! Good thing, since I assume the vinyl is, like, three months away.

yeah i downloaded it too. and i'm at work! lol. hopefully the download option will still be there when i get home.

ok yeah "m4 lema" is where it's at

It's 9am here in Tasmania, I am blowing off a seminar and firing this up.

"esc desc" is overwhelming

chord progression of "A Forest", mashup potential perhaps

Metaz form8 sounds like a pulsating alien ecosystem

between NTS and this we'll need a new ballot poll for these guys haha

OK what Boards of Canada track am I hearing in "psin AM"?

I dunno but there is a definite BOC vibe to some of these tracks

Right, I've submited my copy, so I can talk about this now. gr4 is definitely my favourite - like a string quartet! I also like the trippy-uppy rhythm of 'si00' - I've no idea how this works musically, it's like the kick is going slightly too quick but keeps falling over - I'm sure I've had dreams a bit like this, like when you're trying to run somewhere but can't seem to get anywhere. Definitely cut from a similar cltoh to Oversteps, but it's not the same. This is exactly the Ae album I wanted. Definitely didn't need 'NTS Sessions 2.0' in 2020

I can't get over how massive and gorgeous M4 Lema is. In many ways it's the exact track I've been hoping they'd write since Confield came out, something that perfectly combines all of the classic and modern ingredients that make up their sound and aesthetic, while sounding deeply emotionally and even spiritually resonant and lush while anchoring a sick ass hip hop beat.

F7 is chills-down-the-spine beautiful

OK what Boards of Canada track am I hearing in "psin AM"?

― assert (MatthewK), Thursday, October 8, 2020 11:51 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

everything you do is a balloon

schmefd 2 is one of the most difficult tracks they've done. it's almost what 12-tone? with some detunes. very weird.

album has a 'tomorrow's harvest' vibe to it speaking of boc. but it's a lot better lol.

this fits a nice autechre niche for me, beautiful but idiosyncratic. 'nts' remains a staggering achievement and my personal fav.

damn the last track on this is a real stunner. so much space.

but intimate and calm.

everything you do is a balloon

esc desc is too short!

those square wave synths are spot on a similar timbre to Everything You Do Is a Balloon. holy damn

Downloading all the files when you pre-ordered it already (still?) works, so... Blasting this in an otherwise empty office. Dark skies, w/ rain coming down. Fuck me. So many feeellsss

album has a 'tomorrow's harvest' vibe to it speaking of boc. but it's a lot better lol.

― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, October 8, 2020 8:43 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Well this makes sense as I am a huge TH fan and I can definitely see that connection, especially in the sadness and world-weariness of some of these tracks. Has Ae ever made music this beautifully sad? Maybe a few things on Amber but certainly not lately.

After one listen I have no idea if this will replace Confield and NTS as my favorite Ae, but I really do think it has a shot at doing so, which is a pretty remarkable feat this late in the game

Wish I'd ordered from Warp but in my haste I preordered from Boomkat when the LP was temporarily sold out on the Warp site so no early downloads for me

there was a talk of more than one album in the pipeline, i wonder if there's going to be a big tonal difference between this and whatever else they've got up their sleeves

for sad Ae look no further than “rae” on LP5

I was listening to Autechre yesterday while my family made fun of it/me. Mostly because I wanted to see her reaction I showed my older daughter an online demo of Max/MSP and I was shocked at how well she immediately understood and appreciated the concept. It was pretty neat to see!

I was listening to Autechre yesterday while my family made fun of it/me

i played "moon river rock" for my family and they LAUGHED at me

"Someone I know" downloaded a leak of this and it was Negativland's Over the Edge Vol. 3 split into 11 tracks. It's like the Internet of the early '00s never died.

without to get all imago here buy g4 really isn't long enough

si00 makes me want to watch sealab

does that mean I'm listening to the right leak

I can't believe people still make fake leaks

I think it's nice

anyway whatever I'm listening to it rules, this really does have a Tomorrow's Harvest vibe. this is probably as accessible a record as they are capable of making right now

i know it's corny but i would buy a

Rob&
Sean&
Max/
MSP

t-shirt

gah gr4 just came on again ;_;

Get that shit printed up!

One of the coolest things about Autechre is their obvious aversion to anything remotely saccharine-sounding. Even on Sign--their most melodic, conventionally beautiful album in a decade--the tonality remains in this sort of cold, austere grey zone. Like, I know it's theoretically more complicated than this, but they tend to go with some variation of minor or pentatonic or atonal, but NEVER straight major-key. Maybe Corc from LP5 has the most major-key feel to it, but I think that's still mostly pentatonic. Recury from Chiastic Slide also comes to mind, but that was a long time ago...

i think one of the keys to understanding autechre is that they're working with music as a language, and what they really like to do is tinker with the language in a way that shows both the beauty of it holding together and the overwhelming ecstasy of it exploding or falling apart into unpredictable, unstable shades of meaning. i feel like they focused heavily on rhythm as a language in the 2010s but the last decade has been about melody and harmony as a language that they've been poking holes in and reshaping into something that is their own invention. and this record is like the most graceful statement of that process so far.

err "rhythm as a language in the 2000s"

these are great posts but Whiney is going to have a field day with this thread

autechre are more than a band, they are light itself