Autechre For an off year...

For an Autechre 'off year' we have gotten:

-6852

-Ts1a

-Ae and Hafler Trio 3

-Gescom - Skull Snap

-Lego Feet reissue w/ bonus tracks

-Complete EP box set

Pretty damn impressive

New Clear Dawn

They never stop. They're fucking animals.

I do admire prolific artists but there is a limit .. artists need to take breaks , just look at Venetian Snares, he releases without discrimination every sound he makes .. its hard to judge his catalog when his one good album is buried in a pile of shit..

^ Yeah, but Autechre are insanely consistent with how awesome their material is.

Yes, but. How much of that is original content? The EP box set was 100% and Legofeet (which, granted, I am so stoked to finally get on vinyl) ~50% previously released material.

  On 12/18/2011 at 12:24 AM, sweepstakes said:

Yes, but. How much of that is original content? The EP box set was 100% and Legofeet (which, granted, I am so stoked to finally get on vinyl) ~50% previously released material.

100% of it is original

hey yellow. i like your name.

Asian culture is rad!

  On 12/17/2011 at 9:28 PM, YELLOW said:

Pretty damn impressive

100% agreed. Autechre are easily the most prolific, most consistently good artist on Warp.

How many of today's active artists can release 10 albums without a single dud? How many of them can completely change and revolutionize their style, over and over again, without ruining their sound and alienating their fans?

It's great, hope they keep it up, I don't know why anyone wouldn't want them to.

Autechre and BoC IS really all you need.

  On 12/18/2011 at 2:18 AM, Rhombix said:

  On 12/17/2011 at 9:28 PM, YELLOW said:

Pretty damn impressive

 

100% agreed. Autechre are easily the most prolific, most consistently good artist on Warp.

 

How many of today's active artists can release 10 albums without a single dud? How many of them can completely change and revolutionize their style, over and over again, without ruining their sound and alienating their fans?

I think MoT was a dud and Oversteps was a little weak. So was Untilted, although it was better.

Also I have been an Autechre fanboy for like 14 years and after MoT I am feeling a bit alienated. Although the new Gescom has made me hopeful for what's next.

  On 12/18/2011 at 4:05 AM, sweepstakes said:

  On 12/18/2011 at 2:18 AM, Rhombix said:

  On 12/17/2011 at 9:28 PM, YELLOW said:

Pretty damn impressive

 

100% agreed. Autechre are easily the most prolific, most consistently good artist on Warp.

 

How many of today's active artists can release 10 albums without a single dud? How many of them can completely change and revolutionize their style, over and over again, without ruining their sound and alienating their fans?

 

I think MoT was a dud and Oversteps was a little weak. So was Untilted, although it was better.

 

Also I have been an Autechre fanboy for like 14 years and after MoT I am feeling a bit alienated. Although the new Gescom has made me hopeful for what's next.

MoT was weak. Oversteps had some brilliant moments (ilanders, os veix, st epreo)

and Untilted? How the hell can you knock that.

To be fair, MoT wasn't released as an album.

not as good as what animal collective did on their off year they did like a whole gigantic tour and then they released solo albums and then they TOUREd their solo albums twice and they did like a museum thing.. was the guggenheim transverse temporal gyrus this year or last year?? IDK either way animalcolelctive was way more impressive imo but i just want a new AUTECHRE album come on you guys release something o well i bet its gonna be great anyways so take ur time boys

  On 12/18/2011 at 4:17 AM, Xenblake said:

  On 12/18/2011 at 4:05 AM, sweepstakes said:

  On 12/18/2011 at 2:18 AM, Rhombix said:

  On 12/17/2011 at 9:28 PM, YELLOW said:

Pretty damn impressive

 

100% agreed. Autechre are easily the most prolific, most consistently good artist on Warp.

 

How many of today's active artists can release 10 albums without a single dud? How many of them can completely change and revolutionize their style, over and over again, without ruining their sound and alienating their fans?

 

I think MoT was a dud and Oversteps was a little weak. So was Untilted, although it was better.

 

Also I have been an Autechre fanboy for like 14 years and after MoT I am feeling a bit alienated. Although the new Gescom has made me hopeful for what's next.

 

MoT was weak. Oversteps had some brilliant moments (ilanders, os veix, st epreo)

 

and Untilted? How the hell can you knock that.

There were some really good moments and some really great sounds. And it feels really fresh because it's apparent that they've discovered a novel way to work with tunes. It just felt glib to me, it mostly lacks the emotional resonance of all the other albums (including Oversteps), with a few exceptions. But it does sound like they had a good time making it throughout.

Whereas Oversteps had sort of the opposite problem. It's REALLY emotional, like overtly emotional to the point where I wonder if someone really close to one or both of them died, almost mopey. It sounds really overly serious, sometimes cartoonishly so like a 17 year old talking about Nietzsche or something. And then d-sho qub and known(1) come in and take a big dump all over that and make it sound goofy as hell. And I like both of those tracks but I'm kind of cautious about playing them around other people.

That seriousness seems like a burden a lot of the time and they can't just lighten up and have some good old fashioned fun techno jams, which the 2 goofy tracks certainly aren't. Then MoT dropped and it felt like they were cognizant of that melancholy, so they tried to loosen it up but it sounded kind of wooden and glib in a similar way to Untilted but even worse, I guess since it was going back to the computer-based thing again. The awkward glibness seems to happen every time they drastically change their setup. Except that doesn't make sense since MoT came out after Oversteps, unless it was like outtakes from Oversteps which would make sense because they did that sorta mashup/multi-remix type thing like they did with the Quaristice versions.

I'm willing to forgive that glibness... but I mean, look at Chiastic Slide! That was them moving to a computer, Logic-based setup from just using a bunch of synths... and it's fucking amazing and still one of the best things they've done!

Oh yeah. One other way both MoT and Oversteps suck: the sounds. Right up until 2010, Autechre have consistently been able to create awesome, futuristic, mindblowing sounds. Even when it's not really new stuff, the context they put them in is really innovative and unpredictable and top-notch and unparalleled. At the very least they created these different spaces, different atmospheres. That wasn't really true of the 2010 stuff. It's mostly up to Autechre's aesthetic standards, I mean it's cohesive and stuff, but there's nothing new about it. Texturally, it just feels too easy, too rushed. Lots of people said that it's not about the sounds now, it's about the relationship between the sounds. But when hasn't that been true? And what's with the reverb?? They use the same reverb on every track and it's this ridiculous blurry pillowy soft-lens thing. I feel like I'm playing a Wii game or something when I hear it.

Basically, I miss the wildstyle freaky dirty industrial b-boy Autechre. The one that simultaneously had these really strong, difficult-to-express emotions, but also managed to sound awesome as hell doing it. I heard a little of it in the new Gescom. I hope it comes back for a full release in 2012.

Also, I think the sudden stream of reissues and remix-y type stuff does not bode well. I'm suddenly reminded of something they said in an interview in the last few years about "doing what we can with the time we have". I hope this is just a reference to Rob having 2 kids and living in a different city from Sean and not... something else. I hope it's temporary.

  On 12/18/2011 at 12:05 AM, YO303 said:

I do admire prolific artists but there is a limit .. artists need to take breaks , just look at Venetian Snares, he releases without discrimination every sound he makes .. its hard to judge his catalog when his one good album is buried in a pile of shit..

VS has definitely slowed down in recent years; the only release of 2011 so far as I am aware was the Cubist Reggae EP. Perhaps he is getting ready to unleash something...

But yeah, Autechre!

  On 12/18/2011 at 11:26 AM, Goiter Sanchez said:

  On 12/18/2011 at 12:05 AM, YO303 said:

I do admire prolific artists but there is a limit .. artists need to take breaks , just look at Venetian Snares, he releases without discrimination every sound he makes .. its hard to judge his catalog when his one good album is buried in a pile of shit..

 

VS has definitely slowed down in recent years; the only release of 2011 so far as I am aware was the Cubist Reggae EP. Perhaps he is getting ready to unleash something...

 

But yeah, Autechre!

Yeah, Snares has had two releases in the last year. One was an LP where the songs were all made within a couple days each and the other an EP.

I don't really think rereleases take a lot of work on Autechre's part, especially if the Lego Feet stuff was previously unreleased. That's just speculation though since I'm not in on what goes on behind the scenes and to put something out.

I'm hoping 2012 will bring a new album or something else unexpected. I would kill for a live box set or live online archive or something

  On 12/18/2011 at 2:18 AM, Rhombix said:

  On 12/17/2011 at 9:28 PM, YELLOW said:

Pretty damn impressive

100% agreed. Autechre are easily the most prolific, most consistently good artist on Warp. How many of today's active artists can release 10 albums without a single dud? How many of them can completely change and revolutionize their style, over and over again, without ruining their sound and alienating their fans?

This is a pretty bold statement to make, I'm pretty sure every single one of their albums since Tri Repetae has alienated many of their fans.

Or made fans too

I wouldn't really consider 2011 an "off year."

The Japan benefit stuff alone is like getting a new We R Are Why.

It would be really nice if 2011 were analogous to 1996 in the Ae chronology. Who knows.