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

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

i keep replaying "m4 lema" because it really is the perfect bridge from the nts stuff to this record

hm wow I'm halfway through listening to this and it totally rules

I've just got the 675 mb download of this and it's not bad!

i know it's corny but i would buy a

Rob&
Sean&
Max/
MSP

t-shirt

― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 9 October 2020 14:59 (seven hours ago) link

For Christmas, for me plsplsplsplspls

I don't like the official SIGN shirt, so yes please.

gr4 is definitely my favourite - like a string quartet!
otm. The second half of gr4 in particular destroys me. You just know they were like "ok this is too beautiful, we can't allow it to go on a moment longer"

What I've always loved about the group is sort of their way of recontextualizing themselves in real time, just by tweaking a rhythm, or introducing a melody when you least expect it, or where you at least expect it. It's partly about language, but also about how that language mutates and changes the more times you translate it. Lost in translation so many times that eventually something is found in translation.

I'm the guy that sees the patterns and I feel like you're reaching here

I'm sure the patterns are there are if you are detail oriented, but I'm not, so I'm happy to luxuriate in being disoriented.

the kind of pompous commentary that really makes me want to listen to more autechre

Pompous?

yall need to chill. maybe listen to some nice beats and interestin melodic ambient tracks. the new autechre album for instance!

I mean, almost from the start one of the things I've loved most about Autechre is that no matter how much I've picked up about how they make their music, they've remained utterly, almost uniquely foreign to me. I don't think that reaction makes me "pompous," it's just me appreciating them in a way I appreciate few other acts.

another thing some of you should probably do is try listening to musique concrete or read up on like pauline oliveros and deep listening, expand your electronic music horizons a bit and challenge yourselves before asserting that autechre are "taking the piss" or being completely foreign/alien or whatever. like maybe do some homework first idk.

make yourself sit and listen to something challenging that doesn't pander to you and do nothing else while you're listening.

Wait, there is other electronic music?!

yes. and other things besides compulsively posting everything that occurs to you on a message board.

somebody got up on the wrong side of the bed

autechre good, beat go squelch and snap

I love this entire record but the final third is everything I wanted from post-NTS Autechre

"gr4" being barely over three minutes almost feels like sadistic trolling though

Not to incur anyone's wrath but I think I feel what Josh is saying upthread on "esc desc," which to me sounds like a very simple and beautiful melody that's been broken into random and different-sized pieces, which forces your ears to try and reassemble them somehow

Where are y'all listening to it at this point?

I think if you ordered the album on the Warp site you got an instant download of the whole album (at least that's what I read upthread)

If you didn't order it (you should) or didn't order it from Warp, a person I know says it can be found on s**ls**k amidst the fakes if you know what you are looking for

I ordered it on the Warp site but the download link didn’t work - I think making it available early was inadvertent.

They've done something similar before.

I ordered my CD from boomkat along with some other stuff - it was a penny cheaper, but no download for me.

Even if your downloads show “0/11 available” or whatever you can try clicking the link, that was the case for me and the FLACs came through immediately. Warp store, 2xLP preorder.