POLL Radii -- Autechre :: Untilted :: LP8

My headcanon thinks of Confield, Draft and Untilted as a trilogy and a very specific era of Autechre. Draft and Untilted, especially work as two sides of a coin: up until then the most percussion-driven stuff they'd done with subtle layers of melody and harmony just bubbling under, barely noticeable on the first few listens.

This is exactly why I struggled with Draft and Untilted when they came out despite loving Confield right away. Confield is definitely challenging; each track is like a puzzle to be solved, but it has more overt harmonically beautiful content (e.g. the synths in the second half of "Pen Expers" and all over "Uviol"). That kind of stuff is present on Draft and Untilted but it's harder to dig out. I love them all equally now though.

Untilted definitely took the longest for me to get into of any of their records, but I love it so much now, it's got an upbeat energy and ... "sense of humor"? that is more subdued or lacking in their prior albums to that point outside of Envane maybe

OTM, though I get some perverse humor from Draft as well; "Theme of Sudden Roundabout" is basically built out of fart sounds.

They solved music with "Surripere" and "Augmatic Disport"

LOL, never heard that in Theme Of Sudden Roundabout. Those 'farty' sounds remind me a bit of the VERY HEAVY kick-type drums on Cfern (which I feel are too loud and intrusive)