About Sean dissing albums

  On 12/29/2024 at 11:23 PM, bluelechg6 said:

I would like both

albums and live sets

This. Also, would be lovely if they curate some of the individual tracks they played in the different iterations of their live sets. 

As I thought, although I enjoyed them a lot, I haven't returned to the live sets at all. It's because the hour long wall of sound format is just too inaccesible. I listen to music in 15 minute installments a lot throughout the day, I have time to play albums in it's entirety around once a week. There is too much good and more palatable music out there for me to return to these regularly tbh. Dropping the album format altogether would probably make me degradate me from a big AE fan to just a normal one.

  On 12/30/2024 at 11:09 AM, Turbo Zwanengestuif said:

The only thing I don't agree with is that SIGN and PLUS do feel to me like great albums.

Agreed, big fan of both. Did we ever find out what they stood for?

  On 12/30/2024 at 3:39 PM, Walter Ostanek said:

Agreed, big fan of both. Did we ever find out what they stood for?

sean, please

Sean Is Gonna Nut

  On 12/30/2024 at 3:39 PM, Walter Ostanek said:

Agreed, big fan of both. Did we ever find out what they stood for?

 They took it from the "Sean, please" watmm meme

So all that supposed bitching and moaning did work.

Rob new vinyl record when

Rob pls

https://tenor.com/view/tantrum-gif-9475363

  On 12/30/2024 at 12:03 PM, thumbass said:

It's because the hour long wall of sound format is just too inaccesible. I listen to music in 15 minute installments a lot throughout the day, I have time to play albums in it's entirety around once a week.

I used to listen to music on a daily basis between home and work. It was about an hour per trip, so enough for a sizeable chunk of music. Being a stay-at-home dad this isn't the case anymore. And listening with kids around is no option either.

It seems Autechre isn't just computer music. It's commuter music too

Just save the timestamp of where you were in the set and resume from there

  On 12/30/2024 at 3:39 PM, Walter Ostanek said:

Did we ever find out what they stood for?

Read the rules

Are we not allowed to love albums and live sets?

  On 12/30/2024 at 11:13 PM, NewSchoolScience said:

Are we not allowed to love albums and live sets?

No you have to pick one

  On 12/30/2024 at 11:14 PM, toaoaoad said:

No you have to pick one

I choose both

Unless it’s Justice, then I choose neither

  On 12/30/2024 at 11:09 AM, Turbo Zwanengestuif said:

The only thing I don't agree with is that SIGN and PLUS do feel to me like great albums. But that is just personal taste in the end.

They are still quite good but I always thought something seemed a bit "off" about them. A double album's worth of material released as 2 separate "proper" albums with an unusually short period of time in between, after years of longform releases in unusual formats. Also with PLUS having that jumbled feel to it, and Sean admitting in the AMA that it was kinda leftovers. With the live set/album discussion that's happening now, and the news that they've got a new and different contract with warp now, I suspect that "weird" feeling those albums have is "contractual obligation" ie they owed warp 2 more albums before they could change it up. This is mostly speculation.

  On 12/30/2024 at 8:13 PM, IOS said:

So all that supposed bitching and moaning did work.

Rob new vinyl record when

Rob pls

https://tenor.com/view/tantrum-gif-9475363

  On 12/30/2024 at 11:26 PM, toaoaoad said:

They are still quite good but I always thought something seemed a bit "off" about them. A double album's worth of material released as 2 separate "proper" albums with an unusually short period of time in between, after years of longform releases in unusual formats. Also with PLUS having that jumbled feel to it, and Sean admitting in the AMA that it was kinda leftovers. With the live set/album discussion that's happening now, and the news that they've got a new and different contract with warp now, I suspect that "weird" feeling those albums have is "contractual obligation" ie they owed warp 2 more albums before they could change it up. This is mostly speculation.

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i love them both but yeah, just the fact that they were both released as albums in a short space of time tells me they were ready to be done with the album-every-2-or-3-years thing

I think the tracks on SIGN and PLUS are absolutely top-tier, some of AE's best stuff ever. But their organization into album form resulted in some jarring transitions (mainly on SIGN). 

I gotta say before this place shits down, i hope they still will release albums aswell.

The live tracks are amazing but i wish it would be quaristiced in an album, i gotta listen 60 minutes to be in that part, damn..

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