Autechre - PLUS 20.11.20

  On 10/31/2020 at 9:38 PM, Adamovich said:

Yeahh...can't be arsed to even play this ignoranus vid, if this was supposed to trigger some watmmers then it's probably winrar...

I agree. Won't even validate it with a click and add to his play count

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I thought one should have the attitude of "What do you care what other people think!"

-- Richard P. Feynman

  On 10/29/2020 at 3:57 AM, Bubba69 said:

TM1 Open is a Bradly Strider remix

ahahha, makes sense

i can't believe they named the 14th album sign plus. lol

Loving X4 ATM!!!

T-minus 14 minutes until first listen

Not sure what to expect at this point

clench those asscheeks monica!

  On 11/1/2020 at 4:34 AM, BobDobalina said:

clench those asscheeks monica!

Commencing clenching 

wifey says “ditto”

deploying pipe-roni for smoke

  On 11/1/2020 at 4:16 AM, Hugh Mughnus said:

T-minus 14 minutes until first listen

Not sure what to expect at this point

Just finished another listen. Loving it!!

Yeah that was something else for sure. As much as I enjoy SIGN...This was a different type of fuckery. Very nice lol.

The two together are easily my fav release since exai. 

Can’t pick a favourite track - whole thing just flew by, stimulation overload

That reviewer sort of points up what I found to be the problem here, and it's an understandable one. When you drop a 4 hour album followed by an 8 hour one that are both full of what a lot of people (including me) cite as some of their most experimental and often best work in a long time, going back to a more traditional album length format is inevitably going to be - at least initially - underwhelming. We don't don't have the quantity. And on top of that, they've moved back to a more "melodic" form - as complex as it frequently is - than previous work that requires more structure and less algorithm. That isn't what many of us want from an Autechre release right?

But... these albums need to be given time, I think. It's odd that they've released them separately rather than as a double album like Exai, which might have ultimately garnered a better reception. But even Exai was hard to absorb on initial release because it was so fucking long and dense, and why try to recreate that anyway?

I didn't like PLUS when I first heard it. I was under the impression that it was just a shorter, more minimal take on elseq and NTS. But of course it's not, as tracks like X4, marhide, TM1 open or lux 106 mod attest. I'm fucking hooked on this album now, because the complex melodic element is just fucking awesome... like Oversteps and Move of Ten. I hope soon to be equally hooked on SIGN.

Did they maybe release these in the wrong order?

  On 10/31/2020 at 8:58 PM, Soloman Tump said:

Plushest album of 2020

+1

Anybody else think it's little strange there hasn't been any proper interviews as such?

Yeah, there was the article in the NY Times, but it wasn't exactly an in depth interview.

  On 11/1/2020 at 6:18 AM, Jamesqdot said:

That reviewer sort of points up what I found to be the problem here, and it's an understandable one. When you drop a 4 hour album followed by an 8 hour one that are both full of what a lot of people (including me) cite as some of their most experimental and often best work in a long time, going back to a more traditional album length format is inevitably going to be - at least initially - underwhelming. We don't don't have the quantity. And on top of that, they've moved back to a more "melodic" form - as complex as it frequently is - than previous work that requires more structure and less algorithm. That isn't what many of us want from an Autechre release right?

idk, long time ago i've learned not to want anything specific from an AE release because the bros do as they please (as it should be) and my only job is to decide whether i personally like it or not

AE ≠ AC/DC

  On 11/1/2020 at 8:59 AM, Untitled said:

Anybody else think it's little strange there hasn't been any proper interviews as such?

Yeah, there was the article in the NY Times, but it wasn't exactly an in depth interview.

 

I don't necessarily think it's strange, but I am going to Google News a couple of times a day looking for them   I wish that full two-hour conversation for NYT would be released, of course. I tweeted kudos to the interviewer & enquired about it, but that unsurprisingly didn't garner a reply.

  On 11/1/2020 at 2:26 PM, Mic Finger said:

I don't necessarily think it's strange, but I am going to Google News a couple of times a day looking for them   I wish that full two-hour conversation for NYT would be released, of course. I tweeted kudos to the interviewer & enquired about it, but that unsurprisingly didn't garner a reply.

Maybe it'll come out later, or after something we don't know about.....

^i think that sorta thing is pretty standard for more mainstream interviewing of artists of most any type. trim it all down to whatever approach the writer thinks makes sense and the editor needs that week.

It'd be a proper pisser if that's the only interview they've done for these releases,  and it never sees the light of day in its entirety.

maybe there's some more interviews waiting to drop around the physical releases of PLUS.

otherwise, the only reasonable solution is AAA pt. 2 

  On 11/1/2020 at 1:18 PM, eclipsis said:

idk, long time ago i've learned not to want anything specific from an AE release because the bros do as they please (as it should be) and my only job is to decide whether i personally like it or not

AE ≠ AC/DC

This occurred to me last night when I was out walking and listening to PLUS (what's in the OP, the new quote system sucks) 

I was thinking that now that we are conditioned into those elseq + NTS track lengths, SIGN and PLUS almost feel like eps, with Quaristice style blink and you'll miss it track brevity. Even though that's not the case and they are normal length album and track lengths.

Weird time dilation shit.

Well there are too many bangers in PLUS, it definitely won't be my go-to listening-to-Autechre-while-working album

I love the transition from marhide into ecol4.. it's like ecol scoops up the static from marhide and slices it into neat little slabs

                             plukQs

Right, I fucking love it as well, goes well with sign. More banging and less arty, nice to have bit of both.

Need to listen to them where even tracks belong to the sign set and odd tracks are in plus (index starting from 0 like a normal person).

Last track is in the "goae traensce" genre, that kick drum made me chuckle. I was saying that I would love to see the facial expression of anyone who made it while they were at it, or maybe not.

Started listening to move of ten for some reason with those two new additions from Electronic Arts.