Autechre Autechre.. . Untilted updates.. .

  kirm said:

listen 2 it in ur car really load, sounds mint!

word.

yes listen in a variety of places (and positions) for best effects

I listen to Untilted and to me it's an interesting mild headfuck. It's nothing technical, besides that it doesn't seem to be mixed that well, I just don't hear many ideas that have much of an affect on me.

to be honest, I haven't even completely digested it, yet. I think it's pretty good and it has some great parts... but I still get the feeling that it's like the worst thing they have done since a loooong time. but it's still good.

haven't heard it in a while actually and this thread makes me wanna hear it.

I love it. Much more so than Draft. It just feels so different from other AE releases though for some reason.... I have to be in a different mood/state of mind to enjoy it. It's kinda like I either wanna listen to AE, or AE's Untilted. It's full of energy and mood. Ipacial Section for example is just so menacing. The uber fast paced beats and rhythms always get me pumped, and I get a more energetic feel from listening to it than a moody feel like their other stuff. It's still packed with mood though, which is really cool.

i keep trying to approach it fresh, at a loud volume on open-air stereo. it seems more raw than much of the other albums. it's good loud, the sounds have a dumb physicality that seems more present than their other material. seems less refined? which is good, but is bland and excessive. feels less careful, more belligerent than previous autechre. more improvisational process, maybe? i get phantasy cravins to hear sublimit, be in a sublimitin', subspacial phantasy-rhythm/odd patternin' zone, but am rarely in a state to get inside it. too rigid. their shit is weird, i don't agree with many of the patterns but still am compelled to listen to their tracks. i think half of untilted doesn't work very effectively. but it sounds substantial at a loud volume. it's like raw material for dank dub music. crude format. it's all silver and black, and other qualities of metal and metallic vapour. sorta too monochrome and wooden cavity-scrubbing, not enough colour. and almost fluid but not quite

my ratings:

LCC 8/10

Ipacial Section 9/10

Pro Radii 10/10

Augmatic Disport 7/10

Iera 8/10

Fermium 6/10

The Trees 9.5/10

Sublimit 8/10

try doign youreslf youll realise its quite a consistent release.

Here we go

LCC: 9/10

Ipacial Section: 8.5/10

Pro Radii: 9.5/10

Augmatic Disport: 8.5/10

Iera: 9/10

Fermium: 5.5/10

The Trees: 8.5/10

Sublimit: 10/10

Fermium is the only weak spot, the rest is consistently great, unlike LP5 or Draft which have numerous weak spots

LCC: 9/10

Ipacial Section: 6/10

Pro Radii: 9/10

Augmatic Disport: 7/10

Iera: 8/10

Fermium: 4/10

The Trees: 7/10

Sublimit: 10/10

I really want to like Ipacial Section but I just do not like the first half at all

LCC: 1/10

Ipacial Section: 7/10

Pro Radii: 8/10

Augmatic Disport: 2/10

Iera: 5/10

Fermium: 7/10

The Trees: 6/10

Sublimit: 8/10

total = 55% rating

probably the single worst autechre release ever, but i'd have to listen to cavity job again just to make absolutely sure.

  Asymptote said:

Fermium is the only weak spot, the rest is consistently great, unlike LP5 or Draft which have numerous weak spots

untilted is one huge weak spot. its not even a comparison

you shouldnt be allowed to reply on threads about untilted

1/10 on LCC?

That's just cold...

  awepittance said:

LCC: 1/10

Ipacial Section: 7/10

Pro Radii: 8/10

Augmatic Disport: 2/10

Iera: 5/10

Fermium: 7/10

The Trees: 6/10

Sublimit: 8/10

 

total = 55% rating

 

probably the single worst autechre release ever, but i'd have to listen to cavity job again just to make absolutely sure.

 

  Asymptote said:

 

Fermium is the only weak spot, the rest is consistently great, unlike LP5 or Draft which have numerous weak spots

 

untilted is one huge weak spot. its not even a comparison

you still think your fake one was better?

LCC: 10/10

Ipacial Section: 10/10

Pro Radii: 10/10

Augmatic Disport: 6/10

Iera: 7/10

Fermium: 7/10

The Trees: 8/10

Sublimit: 9/10

overall: 9/10

About the most perfect opening three tracks that can possibly be. It lulls in the middle a bit, but the last two more make up for it. Augmatic Disport is insane, but really too long.

I find it hard to listen to the album as a whole. I appreciate it best when I forget that the music is Autechre's because it helps me to stop judging constantly those songs against their previous work. I wish they would return to a more melodic phase. I miss those days. It's up to them, I don't know on what phase they were on when they wrote this last album (I can hear a lot of traces of dancehall music IMHO), but let's see with what they come up next.

For the first time in awhile gave it a good listen or two

LCC: 5/10

Ipacial Section: 5/10

Pro Radii: 8.5/10

Augmatic Disport: 8/10

Iera: 7/10

Fermium: 3/10

The Trees: 5/10

Sublimit: 4/10 it seems everyone likes this song :fee:

LCC: 9.1/10

Ipacial Section: 8/10

Pro Radii: 9/10

Augmatic Disport: 7/10

Iera: 7/10

Fermium: 6/10

The Trees: 6/10

Sublimit:6/10

Have to say, I'm really digging "Iera" now....really other-worldy song.

well, it's been a few months now since we got a new car on the road after not having wheels for a year. it needs saying, that after 8 months of Untilted as relatively low volume home listening material, i wasn't really feeling the love.

on the road however the love has blossomed and now i get this album, to the point i'm really starting to rate it as another great Ae LP.

Pro Radii and The Trees are both excellent and a mark of where Booth & Brown may be going over the next few years...that shit is wild and fucks the windows out of my little hatchback with the volume at full tilt.

or should that be full untilted/

The Merzbow & Medium- Celsius mixes are both fucking immense. Two Bass Hit is also great. But my favourite is the Jurgen Paape TR7ARmix. Fine drum programming.

i wanna see autechre take a radical departure from their current direction (whatever direction they're going in, or stagnancy), to take it to another level. i don't know. something unexpected, rather than refining or getting too fragmented. i'd like to hear them very minimal and spare, and less agitated

  kirm said:

Any1 unsure about it still listen 2 it in ur car really loud, sounds mint!

exactly what i did when i bought the cd just as it came out

listened to it in the car for around 2 months or so and now i love it

then i swaped it with ~ism for the vinyl version so he could do the same

it works man - try it

fucking great album

  spptrl alt del said:

i wanna see autechre take a radical departure from their current direction (whatever direction they're going in, or stagnancy), to take it to another level. i don't know. something unexpected, rather than refining or getting too fragmented. i'd like to hear them very minimal and spare, and less agitated

Anyhow, I am still sorely disappointed by this album overall. I typically enjoy great craftsmanship in any art I gravitate towards. If it's apparent that something was done fairly quickly with very little forethought, I have a difficult time appreciating or respecting it. Spontenaity and instant gratification have their benefits, but overall, the general rule of thumb is: If it takes a long time to make, it was stay fresh longer, and is more likely to withstand the test of time.

This album, I think, was a necessary turn for them to make before they morph into whatever's coming, but I don't choose to listen to it that often. It's clear they had an idea, and decided to spout it out as quickly as possible, jamming something to tape in order to capture the moment, then moving on.

The live Glasglow recording though...absolutely brilliant. This is AE in their true form, as far as I'm concerned. Would rather listen to the live show than the LP any day.

It seems to me that Untilted is a quest into rythme. All the tracks seem to revolve around progressions of rythme & or their manipulation, where as Draft seemed to be an exploration into textures / sound . Notice how a couple of tracks on Untilted start off wild & glitched ( ie Augmatic / Ipacial ) then morph into a solid beat, almost backwarding their traditional production style, which from Tri is a simple start with deep progression. Almost seems they produced it backwards (Ipacial + Augmatic & LCC) bringing out the madness at the start while progressing it into something rather simple. Though some songs contradict this statement (Iera + Sublimit), that is the great thing about AE. Almost impossible to explain :getlost:

I think Untilted surpasses alot of there previous work mood wise, Draft seemed all over the place to me.

  ~ism said:

  kirm said:

listen 2 it in ur car really load, sounds mint!

 

word.

yes... untilted makes my driving experience a whole lot better... and i hate driving... since the cd was released... it has been my most listened to cd i own... probably will be till the next autechre comes out.