now amazonaws is hanging
lunacy
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 February 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
180 Kb/s
bugger this crap, going to work
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 February 2013 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
everything else downloads at 1900 Kb/s, but fortunately i have got all fucking day
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 February 2013 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
I dunno what happened to them today. I spent about an hour and a half trying to get it for some perverse reason. Now I've got it and I'm happy.
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 7 February 2013 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
if i chose to steal it i would be listening to it by now
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 February 2013 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
I paid for it and then stole it, which is ridiculous but at least I'm listening to it
― silverfish, Thursday, 7 February 2013 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
none of y'all being str8-up, maybe the record isn't either
if draft 7.30 is comfortably in my top 20 albums of all time, will I like this
you have 01 days to comply
― imago, Thursday, 7 February 2013 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
It's 2 hours long and it's not their most accessible record. Going to take a while to say anything definitive.
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 7 February 2013 23:15 (eleven years ago) link
half-formed impressions are preferable to definitive thought-out opinions, this is autechre
― imago, Thursday, 7 February 2013 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
(i.e. I find their music to be purely psychedelic and right-hemisphere-seeking, despite the obvious mathematics, algorithms of the whole thing - it inspires something visceral, the pure response of joy-without-thinking - it's maths-as-art rather than art-as-maths, which you could say the majority of verse-chorus music is)
― imago, Thursday, 7 February 2013 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
My 1st impression (as someone who basically shares your impression of Autechre) is that this is exactly that.
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 7 February 2013 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
oshit, can't wait to get home!!!
― groundhog-enorme-toute-grosse-253x300.jpg (clouds), Thursday, 7 February 2013 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
first/second thoughts, all subject to revision. pre-confield autechre aka pop autechre is dead. they're not coming back. get over it. (this is a note to self more than anything.) echoes of draft and oversteps all over this. 1st disc more beat-happy, 2nd more ambient and hasn't hooked me in yet. cloudlines would not belong on amber. bladelores is lovely, ok maybe liking those fat synth waves is the easy option, i don't care.
― ledge, Friday, 8 February 2013 11:41 (eleven years ago) link
"irlite" is totally Chiastic Slide. Catchy as hell. Liking the 2nd half more on first listen. Several big tracks, first listen didn't reveal much sense of an album, but maybe not the point.
― abcfsk, Friday, 8 February 2013 11:45 (eleven years ago) link
After my initial excitement, I'm rather concerned that a lot of the sounds I'm hearing are very reminiscent of Oversteps.
― dog latin, Friday, 8 February 2013 11:57 (eleven years ago) link
xpost
totally the figure at the beginning irlite is lovely. waiting for them to destroy it. it's currently waiting anxiously in the corner.
― Crackle Box, Friday, 8 February 2013 12:24 (eleven years ago) link
Only played a few tracks so far. Seems quite brutal.
― djh, Friday, 8 February 2013 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
2nd more ambient
might have been lying here
― ledge, Friday, 8 February 2013 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
spl9 is just ripping my face off anyway
― ledge, Friday, 8 February 2013 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
second listen
"irlite" is totally Chiastic Slide. Catchy as hell.
both otm
i just did a rewind on jatevee C, can't remember doing that on an autechre album for a while
― eris bueller (lukas), Friday, 8 February 2013 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
Sounded great very loud this afternoon.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
i'm not heaps far into this but it's already impressive. 'T ess xi' is gorgeous.
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:42 (eleven years ago) link
i came here to post just that.
― pilgrimage to funky cold medina (clouds), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
ace
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 9 February 2013 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
oh man, "jatevee C" into "T ess xi". so good!
― original bgm, Saturday, 9 February 2013 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
just got to "recks on" - daaaaaaaaaaaaamn
― original bgm, Saturday, 9 February 2013 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
tess xi has the worst beat, ever. amybe worse than "akunk"
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 10 February 2013 08:10 (eleven years ago) link
This album is a joyful listen.
― abcfsk, Sunday, 10 February 2013 08:31 (eleven years ago) link
some of their best work imo
― cheeseburger, Sunday, 10 February 2013 12:51 (eleven years ago) link
i like "akunk" xps
― polski smak (clouds), Sunday, 10 February 2013 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
I could imagine Momus singing over the first 29 seconds of T ess xi.
― djh, Sunday, 10 February 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
Does this work better on headphones or speakers? I really wish I could listen to this just a bit louder.
― afriendlypioneer, Sunday, 10 February 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
speakers is best IMO. Better sense of space.
Odd question, but are you guys finding this album, uh... challenging compared to previous albums?
― dog latin, Monday, 11 February 2013 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
no
― every soulless meta poster is a ✰ (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 11 February 2013 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
not at all
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 11 February 2013 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
why have I still not heard this? oh it's because I own a fucking Chromebook
― Black Sabbath - violence, religious obscurantism (imago), Monday, 11 February 2013 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
but then I'm so used to late period autechre that I know how to read it xp
that's how i felt. usually i have to spend a few weeks retuning my ears and getting to grips with a new autechre album. this feels relatively easy to listen to and i don't know if it's because i'm used to their style now, or if it's because they've settled into a groove, or if it's because right now there's a lot of music around now that riffs on similar things as Ae - slipped beats, nucleic breaks, stuff like Zomby, Actress, Oneohtrix Point Never, DJ Rashad... I don't know whether this familiarity is a bad thing either. It's actually quite nice enjoying Autechre like a favourite meal rather than an acquired taste.
― dog latin, Monday, 11 February 2013 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
agreed on several points - this goes down pretty smooth, there aren't too surprises, and I don't really think that's a bad thing. still forming my impressions but I certainly like this and time will tell if I love it.
― original bgm, Monday, 11 February 2013 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
the closer could easily slot into lp5
― original bgm, Monday, 11 February 2013 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
their sound palette kind of sets them apart, terminally. they're sounding bigger, shinier, and more spacious than ever, but the quality of their late-period tunes is questionable. that said, the first twelve minutes of exai is top-notch shit, the horns on irlite recall the tuss (shiz ko e), kinda. irlite's got a good swagger to it, for lack of a better word. the dry, grainy synthesizer sounds throughout disc 2 are great. i get a strong move of ten (production) vibe from the second half, and a sort of hodge podge, odds-n-ends (ep7 textures, etc.) feeling from the latter part of disc 1. with the exception of bladelores.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 11 February 2013 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
this feels relatively easy to listen to and i don't know if it's because i'm used to their style now, or if it's because they've settled into a groove, or if it's because right now there's a lot of music around now that riffs on similar things as Ae
As someone who's pretty much gotten off the bus circa Confield, I'd say that Exai is qualitatively different from the recent vintage, even Oversteps and Quaristice. Which makes ledge's warning, e.g.
pre-confield autechre aka pop autechre is dead. they're not coming back. get over it.
... a bit misleading! Not a complaint, because I like the idea of enjoying a new Ae release.
― Ultramega OK Cupid (Leee), Monday, 11 February 2013 04:27 (eleven years ago) link
Wow the beginning of "vekoS" sounds exactly like the average between Confield and LP5.
― Ultramega OK Cupid (Leee), Monday, 11 February 2013 04:29 (eleven years ago) link
Gotta agree with the consensus that this is "standard" late period ae - and the only sense in which I'm used to this period is that I don't fully digest or appreciate their albums for a long time, if ever. Still don't have a decent settled memory of Oversteps tbh (haven't listened to it for an age though). There are a definitely a few immediate standout tracks, maybe a couple of shouts from beyond the grave of pop autechre, but on the whole I'm still finding it difficult to get a purchase on this.
the quality of their late-period tunes is questionable
Gotta co-sign this - it's what I mean by pop ae being dead, really. When did we last get something as basically catchy as acroyear 2, rae, arch carrier - to cherry pick off just one album?
― ledge, Monday, 11 February 2013 08:40 (eleven years ago) link
Depends on what you mean by catchy. Post-Confield Autechre is catnip for me- instantly accessible and enjoyable, a dependable easy listen. Understand not getting a full grip on the albums as the three last one have lacked a very clear identity, although this one sticks out because the tunes are a lot stronger than on Quaristice and Oversteps.
Untilted was an album's album, though.
― abcfsk, Monday, 11 February 2013 08:57 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah that definitely has a really solid identity and character.
― ledge, Monday, 11 February 2013 09:02 (eleven years ago) link
Agree that Untilted was the last album that felt like an album rather than a chocolate box of material you can just sift through at random. The idea of listening to Exai for any extended period of time in a strict order feels like an exercise in exhaustion.
― dog latin, Monday, 11 February 2013 09:50 (eleven years ago) link
gave this a proper listen late saturday night, thought we'd got to the end and we were only about half way through(!) haven't properly listened to ae since draft 7.30 (i think, the one that came with a dvd and a big thick blue cd case).
really like the restraint in the sound palette, really like the length. really like the mood. this seems to fit in quite nicely with a lot techno/electronic music i've been enjoying lately. should probably give oversteps a go, but i think i'll be happy with this for quite a while, there are already a bunch of 'bits' that i'm looking forward to hearing again. it's quite, um, easy listening, compared to how i remember autechre, not sure if that's my ears or if they've just got better at organising their sounds.
― Crackle Box, Monday, 11 February 2013 10:47 (eleven years ago) link
as basically catchy as acroyear 2, rae, arch carrier
d-sho qub? not on the same level, i'll admit.
― eris bueller (lukas), Monday, 11 February 2013 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
That was always my fave off oversteps, but yeah, it's not like Arch Carrier where there's a central 'gimmick' going on. Much more free form.
― dog latin, Monday, 11 February 2013 18:14 (eleven years ago) link