Autechre Rant about Confield

Rook why aren't you a reviewer for some fancy IDMs magazine.

  Caustic said:

Rook why aren't you a reviewer for some fancy IDMs magazine.

Because he overrates everything!

As soon as there is a fancy electronic music magazine I will apply

And if you think Confield is overrated, you seriously fail at music.

  Rook said:

And if you think Confield is overrated, you seriously fail at music.

In case you didn't know, Confield is my favorite. ;P

Nuane = awesome song. Chiastic = awesome album.

Sorry ladies, still don't get Confield. You either do or you don't. Bob don't.

And for the record my album scoresheet looks like this:

why do you try and interpret it so deeply? its just a fucking album by a couple of guys most people have never heard of.

  ezkerraldean said:

why do you try and interpret it so deeply? its just a fucking album by a couple of guys most people have never heard of.

Yes, God forbid we enjoy something and even more heinous is it that we form an emotional attachment to art. And everyone knows it is only good if it is Mozart because everyone has heard of him.

In case you didn't catch it, I was being sarcastic. I actually hate you. Please die.

  ezkerraldean said:

why do you try and interpret it so deeply? its just a fucking album by a couple of guys most people have never heard of.

If you don't care about albums by guys most people have never heard of, then why are you on this board?

i forgot to mention... i was dozing off over the weekend when confield was playing... i then had a dream that the cd came to life and started growing moss! when i woke up i was like "that totally makes sense!"

I wish I could dream of Autechre as masterfully as you, Assymmetrical Head! <333

confield is amazing. autechre on lsd is one of the best things a person can experience.

  Rook said:

As soon as there is a fancy electronic music magazine I will apply

 

 

 

 

And if you think Confield is overrated, you seriously fail at music.

go kick grooves mag's ass and see if you too can work something out.

  Deepex said:

If you don't care about albums by guys most people have never heard of, then why are you on this board?

my point was, why try and interpret it so much, just chill out and listen to it, innit.

  ezkerraldean said:

  Deepex said:

If you don't care about albums by guys most people have never heard of, then why are you on this board?

my point was, why try and interpret it so much, just chill out and listen to it, innit.

OMG YESSSSS!!!! I FEEL THE SAME WAYYYYYY!!! It's like those morons who try to find "meaning" in a Shakespeare play!!!!! Doesn't everyone know he is just telling a pretty story?!?!?!?!?!?! Or a Hitchcock movie. Just point A to point B y00!!!!!

  Rook said:

  ezkerraldean said:

  Deepex said:

If you don't care about albums by guys most people have never heard of, then why are you on this board?

my point was, why try and interpret it so much, just chill out and listen to it, innit.

 

OMG YESSSSS!!!! I FEEL THE SAME WAYYYYYY!!! It's like those morons who try to find "meaning" in a Shakespeare play!!!!! Doesn't everyone know he is just telling a pretty story?!?!?!?!?!?! Or a Hitchcock movie. Just point A to point B y00!!!!!

You're the same with your Autechre analysises.

After a whole week of intensive Chiastic Slide listenings, this is officially one of their best albums, great misunderstood job, Rob and Sean!

  Enter a new display name said:

After a whole week of intensive Chiastic Slide listenings, this is officially one of their best albums, great misunderstood job, Rob and Sean!

good thing I "overrated" that album too eh?

  Rook said:

  Enter a new display name said:

After a whole week of intensive Chiastic Slide listenings, this is officially one of their best albums, great misunderstood job, Rob and Sean!

 

good thing I "overrated" that album too eh?

Pardon me... That was for me the hardest album by Autechre to get into.

Recury, I love you! <333

I find Pen Expers to be quite an enjoyable track. I actually found myself compelled to dance to it, but in a glitchy, twitchy way that feels really good. Actually, the whole album makes me want to move around, in a sort of demented way. Like, I just find specific muscles in my body reacting to the different sounds, kind of like the album is controlling my body...and really allot of the time when i listen to Confield I feel like my mind is numbing down, but opening up. Like cold intelligence is just flowing into my head while human understanding is being forced out... Confield takes over my body and leaves my mind to shed the concept of being, so i can see existence at its roots....I really feel sometimes that this album describes elementary particles...

I also find myself doing a mixture of laughing and crying just in response to some of the sounds on this album. Its like the pureness of the sound hits some sort of pleasure center in my brain and releases counteracting chemicals, and they just bounce around, leaving me confused as to what I am feeling in response to this...all I know is some of the tracks are just too beautiful for me too handle. Parhelic Triangle is the best example of those sounds. Those bells in the distance just send me into nirvana. I can't even take how beautiful it is. I just can't understand it. Its just too good. aauauauaaauauauauuaauhhhhhhhhh>>. NNduie *right now my eyes are super fucking open and I'm smiling madly and shivering and twitching*

yummy

I would imagine Uviol as in the soundtrack of a documentary about deep sea creatures. Reminds me of deep seas.

  Rook said:

  Ghostbusters III said:

Rook why is Nuane such a fucking good song? that arpeggio melody that creeps in towards the end for about 45 seconds is seriously awesome

 

The gritty industrial chop beginning Nuane, can only be summed up in one word. Penetrating. These beats are the prelude to what would some day become pen expers. The repetitive yet somehow ever changing symmetrical melodies and roomy, airy, bass hyper-charges your imagination. Despite the many layers that are Nuane, you can't help seeing something that isn't there. You feel as if you knew the song before you even hear it. As the late great master Alfred Hitchcock once said, "there is no terror in the bang, only the anticipation of it". Nuane is that quote come to life. Your breathing gets heavier and more intense as the song goes along. The adrenaline rising. By the time Nuane begins to wind down, you are already in a state of subliminal satisfaction.

Nuane may be my favorite ae song. I always saw it as celebratory. Like, you're in a desert, when far in the distance you see a form approaching. Eventually, the shape materializes into some sort of bizarre, many-limbed creature/perpetual motion machine, spewing streamers and confetti from every orifice, like some sort of eerie Moebius painting. It passes you by and gradually recedes into the distance, with a few strange followers/stragglers wandering behind, spinning in circles, etc.

Or maybe it's just the music jawas listen to in their sand crawler.

Epic.

  lumpenprol said:

Nuane may be my favorite ae song. I always saw it as celebratory. Like, you're in a desert, when far in the distance you see a form approaching. Eventually, the shape materializes into some sort of bizarre, many-limbed creature/perpetual motion machine, spewing streamers and confetti from every orifice, like some sort of eerie Moebius painting. It passes you by and gradually recedes into the distance, with a few strange followers/stragglers wandering behind, spinning in circles, etc.

 

Or maybe it's just the music jawas listen to in their sand crawler.

 

Epic.

Interesting, I would never get desert from Nuane because of its strong industrial tinge.

I really like the subtle piano in Cfern. It seems like in the beginning they took a normal piano sound but elongated the attack to make it sound like a pad.

I also love the crispness of the marimba sound and organ sound. Something about using such "cheesy" instruments in this context makes it sound so much more threatening...

I like that gurgly bubly vomit sound that starts to come in about halfway through cfern and then comes in every few seconds or so. Adds to the drunken stupor feel of the song. That plus how everything is detuned.

  Rook said:

Ok, here is the deal people. This thread is about confield discuss everything from generative techniques and what the hell that means to what you think about the tracks, and why it is or is not the greatest album evar.

 

Though Confield was my favorite album on my first listen, I can wholly understand how it isn't for most people or how it takes many listens. Here is why. Confield doesn't appeal to readily accessible human emotions. I mean lets take LP5 for example. Songs like Rae and Corc are just flat out beautiful, those songs wear their hearts on their sleeve and can easily be recognized as saddening beauty. Or Under Boac and Acroyear play to our sense of fast adventure. Arch Carrier is straight up gangsta.

 

Confield on the other hand isn't beautiful the way you find your cut little depressed indie crush to be, or how you find the Italian super model to be beautiful. Confield asks you to find beauty in pain and abstraction. Each song on confield is so visual that you could write a thousand page book on each.

 

Vi Scose Poise is separatation. You aren't sure where you are. Just that it is raining. Metallic atmosphere surrounds you. You relax.

 

Cfern is the drunken knowledge of torture by mother nature. You suddenly realize why you are hear. When the bass comes in the tension starts. It is maddeningly slow and incremental. As if army ant pinchers are slowly slicing you while drops of water slowly land on your forehead. Yet the pounding and resistive bass lets tells us that your will is unwavering. Your eyes squinting, your face scowling, nothing can stop you.

 

Unfortunately, as we all know, nothing defeats mother nature. Pen Expers comes in and demolishes you. A seemingly never ending treatment of your body as only the hands of the abstraction of torture could do. But there is one thing that mother nature did not count on, for she cannot. Human will. Through your gray-black clouds of tears you begin to smile regardless of the pain. You see yellow and white light. Something not of this world has aided you, you for several minutes you experience enlightenment. You do not care about the physical world. The physical world is not real, it is not everlasting. You cry in pleasure as you have never experienced beauty before.

 

But wait, though the physical world is not everlasting, you are still alive in it, mother nature has not relented. You are released from enlightenment, each man must suffer the pain coming to him. You are again thrown into darkness. Pounded, for an agonizingly long minute.

 

Then the real sickness starts.

 

 

With Sim Gishel, mother nature smiles her most evil smile and begins. She inserts creatures in your ears, not meant to cause direct pain but instead ever so slight pressure, slowly increasing. All the while the natural weapon of claustrophobia works against you. The black-red-dark gray closes in on you. Your sternum is periodically pressed inward. Your lungs grasp for breath.

 

Than it is over. At this point you are tired, the fifteen seconds of dead time nearly allows you to lose yourself and go under. You feel sudden relief. But mother nature is not always merciful.

 

The loud, repetitive bass of Parhelic Triangle appears from nothingness. This sort of pain is not physical. Instead purely psychological. You begin to see fear as you have never seen it before. Suddenly fear is no longer an emotion, it is a tangible entity. Your eyes roll back in their sockets, your brain expands, white hot beads of torturous sweat emit from every pour of your sickening body. But something keeps you from giving in. What could it be? It is the realization. You realize that fear is just an emotion. Your reason seems thousands of miles away, but you notice it none the less. Mother nature sees the momentary strength of your resolve. THis angers her greatly. She fights you with Bine.

 

Bine is the irrational anger of mother nature. She lost the control and logic she had with her previous assaults. Significant, because Bine can be fought. Bine can be resisted. Bine can be understood, since irrationality is a human trait. Bine ends.

 

Eidetic Casein is the realization and actualization of assault. For the first time you physically see your opponent. Mother nature fights with perversion. She takes childish things and uses them in only a way that the most disgusting of men could. Eidetic Casein is mother natures rapists, pedophiles, murderers, psychotic, perverted. Waves of vomit like yellow and green lines caress your body. You are disgusted. This disgust wakes you up in a way that you were not before.

 

God takes pity on you.

 

You are thrown again into abstraction. Uviol is floating in eternity. Dark purple and black clouds protect you. The torture that once was is not apparent. You know it is there, but it is not. Where are you? God is showing you unsettling beauty. He knows that you must inevitably return for a final battle, but rewards your resolve as he has rewarded none others. The impending end creeps in through the abstraction. You walk on ambiguity, but are suddenly thrown back by unknown force. You walk again anyway. You are throw back again by unknown force. White noise looks like black noise, and sees you. The end has come.

 

Lentic Catachresis is the monster that confield is. It grows and grows. You stand unwaveringly. You are not afraid. As it erratically rises, you stare at it, it stares at you. For a long while. The battle begins. It is obvious that you will lose. You fight anyway. The monster strikes you down, you don't get up. The monster keeps striking you anyway. It has no notion of honor. It strikes you faster, faster, faster.

 

You are dead.

 

 

 

 

I love Saturdays.

Great review Rook! Cfern is a particular fave for me on this album, I love the dark, depressing feel of it, but it's not depressing at all. I just love how downbeat it is in a comfortable, warm way and the way the piano meanders through the track and the dark, gurgly sounds. Uviol's a good track, sends me to sleep. Very peaceful. Love how Lentic Catachresis sounds so metallic with some BoC style melody in the background. Excellent album.