Autechre Autechre - Oversteps (WARP210) [The MegaThread]

In anticipation of Oversteps I've been caning Quaristice,

Versions and Quadrange EPs this past week. Was never very

taken with them before but I have reached the conclusion

that they are each quite excellent (I'm even smitten with

the majestic drone of Perlence Subrange 6-36). Bring on

Oversteps!!

..

thanks Panz0r!

I'll hopefully be in Europe in 2 and a half years time, which would be perfect timing for another album tour.

Though knowing my luck, they'll probably release an album of messy didgeridoo sounds, clapsticks and do an exclusive Australian tour.

http://clonesound.blogspot.com/2010/01/initial-reflections-autechre-oversteps.html

"There are tracks here with the kind of ambient techno melodies that have scarce been present on an Autechre album since 1995's Tri Repetae."

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!

Yeah that tiny little line of review text has me excited in ways text never should excite someone. I'd like to rant on about pointless speculation but since it is so pointless I'll just leave it at this: This album is going to blow the fucking people DOWNTOWN!

legit?

vinyl £29.99 http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/view/61021

cd £10.99: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=255161

yeah, those wavs are probably "free"

Very good!

sounds faek to me. Also he likes Quaristice way too much to trust his opinion on anything.

  On 1/19/2010 at 4:05 PM, lumpenprol said:

sounds faek to me. Also he likes Quaristice way too much to trust his opinion on anything.

hi joyrex

We gotta stop hatin on Quaristice, guys. Although I will admit a few of the tracks were a bit of a let down in terms of lack of depth, the atmosphere is coherent throughout the album just like an Ae album should, and the sound design and overall melodic style and beat style is very consistent with Ae's previous work. So it took some steps in a direction you didn't enjoy, but that's your fault and deep down you know it so you become frustrated. Frustrated because you wish you could see it's beauty but it eludes you, and you vent this frustration by hating on this quality album.

Seriously, I've said this before and I'll say this again, being the hardcore Ae fan that I am: If you ever hear an ae track you don't like, you're just not listening the right way, or you haven't tried hard enough to figure it out. If you disagree, post your logical and coherent counter argument and I am confident that my logical conception of Ae will allow me to defeat any arguments you may have to the contrary.

  On 1/19/2010 at 4:28 PM, thehauntingsoul said:

We gotta stop hatin on Quaristice, guys. Although I will admit a few of the tracks were a bit of a let down in terms of lack of depth, the atmosphere is coherent throughout the album just like an Ae album should, and the sound design and overall melodic style and beat style is very consistent with Ae's previous work. So it took some steps in a direction you didn't enjoy, but that's your fault and deep down you know it so you become frustrated. Frustrated because you wish you could see it's beauty but it eludes you, and you vent this frustration by hating on this quality album.

 

Seriously, I've said this before and I'll say this again, being the hardcore Ae fan that I am: If you ever hear an ae track you don't like, you're just not listening the right way, or you haven't tried hard enough to figure it out. If you disagree, post your logical and coherent counter argument and I am confident that my logical concept of Ae will allow me to defeat any arguments you may have to the contrary.

Yikes, I am a pretty hardcore fanboy but you need to chill out. Sean and Rob are just two regular dudes who happen to make great music. Most of their work is excellent but some is just not an the same level, mediocre or even bad. Just because someone doesn't enjoy a track doesn't mean they don't understand it or it's "their fault". With such a vast body of work of course there are going to be tracks that aren't up to par, it's just amazing that they are good so consistently.

I happen to like Quarisitice but I haven't LOVED an album since the Chiastic Slide - Confield era. Does this mean I don't understand or am not worthy of appreciating the new releases? No, I just prefer what they were doing with those albums. Maybe I used to be the same way at one point and it's great to see you so excited but you don't need to be a missionary to spread the word of AE. Music should be enjoyed, not forced upon people. At the end of the day it all comes down to taste, so even if people don't share your viewpoint that AE are infallible and every release is better than the last, you should respect their view.

That said, I'm not going cuckoo bananas in anticipation for Oversteps, but I am looking forward to hearing what they come up with. I think the live sets have been brilliant and hope we get to hear some of that stuff or of equal quality. AE is still my favorite music by a mile but over the years the excitement has faded a bit as I have discovered each release and it seems less like magic and more like very creative and clever music making. But I will always thank them for giving me that magic at one point.

amen

  On 1/19/2010 at 4:47 PM, six said:

  On 1/19/2010 at 4:28 PM, thehauntingsoul said:

We gotta stop hatin on Quaristice, guys. Although I will admit a few of the tracks were a bit of a let down in terms of lack of depth, the atmosphere is coherent throughout the album just like an Ae album should, and the sound design and overall melodic style and beat style is very consistent with Ae's previous work. So it took some steps in a direction you didn't enjoy, but that's your fault and deep down you know it so you become frustrated. Frustrated because you wish you could see it's beauty but it eludes you, and you vent this frustration by hating on this quality album.

 

Seriously, I've said this before and I'll say this again, being the hardcore Ae fan that I am: If you ever hear an ae track you don't like, you're just not listening the right way, or you haven't tried hard enough to figure it out. If you disagree, post your logical and coherent counter argument and I am confident that my logical concept of Ae will allow me to defeat any arguments you may have to the contrary.

 

Yikes, I am a pretty hardcore fanboy but you need to chill out. Sean and Rob are just two regular dudes who happen to make great music. Most of their work is excellent but some is just not an the same level, mediocre or even bad. Just because someone doesn't enjoy a track doesn't mean they don't understand it or it's "their fault". With such a vast body of work of course there are going to be tracks that aren't up to par, it's just amazing that they are good so consistently.

 

I happen to like Quarisitice but I haven't LOVED an album since the Chiastic Slide - Confield era. Does this mean I don't understand or am not worthy of appreciating the new releases? No, I just prefer what they were doing with those albums. Maybe I used to be the same way at one point and it's great to see you so excited but you don't need to be a missionary to spread the word of AE. Music should be enjoyed, not forced upon people. At the end of the day it all comes down to taste, so even if people don't share your viewpoint that AE are infallible and every release is better than the last, you should respect their view.

 

That said, I'm not going cuckoo bananas in anticipation for Oversteps, but I am looking forward to hearing what they come up with. I think the live sets have been brilliant and hope we get to hear some of that stuff or of equal quality. AE is still my favorite music by a mile but over the years the excitement has faded a bit as I have discovered each release and it seems less like magic and more like very creative and clever music making. But I will always thank them for giving me that magic at one point.

Sorry, that came off a little aggressive.

I will concede that music is all about taste and that nobody should be forced to listen to anything.

I'm not saying that all Ae tracks are amazing, but just that in my opinion none of them are without quality or value or independence. If I can feel this way about all the tracks they have produced, does that not then entail that anybody could feel the way that I do about their tracks if they went about listening to them in the same manner as me?

Even though music is all about taste, the whole thing about Autechre is that it grows on you, and although it's not right to force ae on anyone, most Ae fans will admit, I think, that you have to force yourself into some of the more difficult passages in Ae's discography. The boys are perfectionists and would not release something that was utter shite. Sure they take their music in unexpected and sometimes outrageously difficult directions but there is nothing in their works that I feel could be written off as utter crap.

Although perhaps that's a philosophy better applied to the entirety of music in general, in which case it sort of renders my point moot. Obviously every time someone says an album is crap they are just stating their opinion and not making a statement of fact.

I am cautiously optimistic based on this preview!

I hear it'll be quite good

  On 1/19/2010 at 5:05 PM, thehauntingsoul said:

  On 1/19/2010 at 4:47 PM, six said:

  On 1/19/2010 at 4:28 PM, thehauntingsoul said:

We gotta stop hatin on Quaristice, guys. Although I will admit a few of the tracks were a bit of a let down in terms of lack of depth, the atmosphere is coherent throughout the album just like an Ae album should, and the sound design and overall melodic style and beat style is very consistent with Ae's previous work. So it took some steps in a direction you didn't enjoy, but that's your fault and deep down you know it so you become frustrated. Frustrated because you wish you could see it's beauty but it eludes you, and you vent this frustration by hating on this quality album.

 

Seriously, I've said this before and I'll say this again, being the hardcore Ae fan that I am: If you ever hear an ae track you don't like, you're just not listening the right way, or you haven't tried hard enough to figure it out. If you disagree, post your logical and coherent counter argument and I am confident that my logical concept of Ae will allow me to defeat any arguments you may have to the contrary.

 

Yikes, I am a pretty hardcore fanboy but you need to chill out. Sean and Rob are just two regular dudes who happen to make great music. Most of their work is excellent but some is just not an the same level, mediocre or even bad. Just because someone doesn't enjoy a track doesn't mean they don't understand it or it's "their fault". With such a vast body of work of course there are going to be tracks that aren't up to par, it's just amazing that they are good so consistently.

 

I happen to like Quarisitice but I haven't LOVED an album since the Chiastic Slide - Confield era. Does this mean I don't understand or am not worthy of appreciating the new releases? No, I just prefer what they were doing with those albums. Maybe I used to be the same way at one point and it's great to see you so excited but you don't need to be a missionary to spread the word of AE. Music should be enjoyed, not forced upon people. At the end of the day it all comes down to taste, so even if people don't share your viewpoint that AE are infallible and every release is better than the last, you should respect their view.

 

That said, I'm not going cuckoo bananas in anticipation for Oversteps, but I am looking forward to hearing what they come up with. I think the live sets have been brilliant and hope we get to hear some of that stuff or of equal quality. AE is still my favorite music by a mile but over the years the excitement has faded a bit as I have discovered each release and it seems less like magic and more like very creative and clever music making. But I will always thank them for giving me that magic at one point.

Sorry, that came off a little aggressive.

 

I will concede that music is all about taste and that nobody should be forced to listen to anything.

 

I'm not saying that all Ae tracks are amazing, but just that in my opinion none of them are without quality or value or independence. If I can feel this way about all the tracks they have produced, does that not then entail that anybody could feel the way that I do about their tracks if they went about listening to them in the same manner as me?

 

Even though music is all about taste, the whole thing about Autechre is that it grows on you, and although it's not right to force ae on anyone, most Ae fans will admit, I think, that you have to force yourself into some of the more difficult passages in Ae's discography. The boys are perfectionists and would not release something that was utter shite. Sure they take their music in unexpected and sometimes outrageously difficult directions but there is nothing in their works that I feel could be written off as utter crap.

 

Although perhaps that's a philosophy better applied to the entirety of music in general, in which case it sort of renders my point moot. Obviously every time someone says an album is crap they are just stating their opinion and not making a statement of fact.

yeah there are probably a lot of jonas brothers fans who feel the same way about theor jonas brothers cds

ohnoes i have been wrong about the jonas brothers all along

*joins jonas brothers forum to learn how to appreciate jonas brothers more*

  On 1/19/2010 at 6:49 PM, LUDD said:

yeah there are probably a lot of jonas brothers fans who feel the same way about theor jonas brothers cds

 

ohnoes i have been wrong about the jonas brothers all along

 

*joins jonas brothers forum to learn how to appreciate jonas brothers more*

Hey man, now I hate the Jonas brothers as much as anyone else and would be quick to call it a load of horseshit upon someone asking my opinion. That being said, if there are people that like it, then it's not fair to call it crap, but rather to say it's crap in your opinion.

And I wanna restate that I fucking hate the Jonas brothers and in my opinion its a load of shit.

it is wonderful to get more legitimate information about how the album

will sound.

i hope this article is real.

Autechre has slipped it's tether, bolting down in all directions.

(Oh, it’s weary, weary waiting, love)

My ears are straining for the coming of the sounds.

  On 1/19/2010 at 6:49 PM, LUDD said:

*joins jonas brothers forum to learn how to appreciate jonas brothers more*

lol

  On 1/19/2010 at 2:55 PM, Sam said:

http://clonesound.blogspot.com/2010/01/initial-reflections-autechre-oversteps.html

 

"There are tracks here with the kind of ambient techno melodies that have scarce been present on an Autechre album since 1995's Tri Repetae."

 

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!

Didn't all the preview-reviews say basically the same thing about Quaristice?

This entire review just sounds like. . . someone describing what everyone would expect a decent Quaristice follow-up to sound like without going into any detail whatsoever.

look at fredd-e takin things downtown

don't get your hopes up too much guys, i remember reading reviews of Draft that also said 'Autechre is back to doing melody, this is reminiscent of tri repeate' which in a way kind of true, but not in the way you would hope.

  On 1/19/2010 at 5:40 PM, Joyrex said:

I am cautiously optimistic based on this preview!

I wouldn't bother getting your hopes up Rex. I remember you stating your optimism about Quaristice because you heard a preview of Rale and thought it sounded like a brilliant return to their ambient roots (ambient?). I doubt they're going to go back to Tri Rep style tunes.

I do wonder if they're still rocking the Monomachine and Machinedrum primarily for this album?