XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

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not listening to these yet! not sure if i'm gonna. i'm torn....

These snippets are such a tease, this sounds exactly like what I was hoping, definitely can hear the same power the quaristice and oversteps live sets had.

Come on bleep !

yes, i'm picking up definite oversteps tour signals. dreams come true.

Oooh, yes...now that i know it's good I'm calm... ...and I can wait for the proper release.

Been following this thread through and through since it was posted. I've just now finally felt like many have, pleeeeeeease fucking leak.

Edit: I shouldn't have listened to the samples talk about torture.

Edit: O yes, Bbbbbblllllllaaaaaaddelllllorrrrresssss

  On 1/31/2013 at 1:16 AM, beNito said:

These snippets are such a tease, this sounds exactly like what I was hoping, definitely can hear the same power the quaristice and oversteps live sets had.

 

Come on bleep !

  On 1/31/2013 at 1:17 AM, disoriental express said:

yes, i'm picking up definite oversteps tour signals. dreams come true.

y'all are gonna jizz when keyosc is a soundboard from a live set.

^ is that from the oversteps tour?

why the fuck is oversteps so shit compared to that live set? (I still like oversteps. But doesn't compare to that live madness).

  On 1/30/2013 at 10:24 PM, Awepittance said:

 

  On 1/30/2013 at 10:11 PM, encey said:

What's a 'Frake'?

 

ah cheers -- i learned something today! :-D

I dont see the need to compare them, too different of style.

Damn... I stupidly listening to those samples. 30 second clips are just uber-terrible and give you absolutely no idea what a track is really going to sound like. They never have. And these are only from disc one. No idea what to expect from Exai overall now, especially with the anomalous, almost ambient 'Tess xi' thrown in there.

By the way, I also don't like Untilted. It's an hour-long ice cream headache. Actually... I HATE it, all the way down to that cover art, which has to be one of worst album covers I've ever seen.

  On 1/30/2013 at 11:23 PM, kieselguhr kid said:

hi guys, if you need a break from speculating about leaks, you might want to listen to some exai sound clips:

 

http://www.normanrecords.com/records/138052-autechre---exai-

 

 

also: first post. hello everybody!

FUCK YEAH BLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA(etc)

I dunno man LCC was ok

edit, oh, you meant Jamesqdot. Yeah, he is a shit cover.

  On 1/31/2013 at 1:51 AM, usagi said:

YOU'RE one of the worst album covers I've ever seen

Nearly wet myself at this - thanks.

Well, okay, so perhaps my post was a bit of a troll, but it puts any take I have on Exai into context so that you serious Autechre people (and no, I'm not being sarcastic) know what perspective I have on this. For instance, 'Oversteps' ranks as my second favourite Autechre release of all time, is one of the finest records I have ever listened to in my life and I'm reasonably happy with the 1110 word review I wrote to help promote it.

I think it's on the strength of that release that I'm so excited about this one.

Although I really did mean it about the 'Untilted' album cover. Just look at it. I mean... really?

ban everyone who hates untilted. it's fucking mandatory. do it now. they don't deserve exai.

I really dig the cover for Untilted. As usual it seems to be quite representative of the music. Are the different blue figures the same thing but angled in different ways and at different distances (the upper ones tilted to appear as super acute near-lines)? The white and yellow "swishes" - totally vertical like the tunes, while the yellow one is sliced with the remaining spire of a single line continuing all the way to the upper edge. 3D and planar, solid and paper thin, ambiguous. Sleek, super glitchy, quite stylish. It would look cool as a portrait in my hallway.

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Untilted - Favorite album AND artwork... Ya'll are crazy! Exai is sounding quite delicious... I must resist listening to the samples too much or the first 30 secs of every song will forever sound 'different'

Yeah I don't have any clue what Jamesqdot is on about, Untilted is a masterpiece and the cover is perfect

  On 1/31/2013 at 2:19 AM, Vilwx said:

I really dig the cover for Untilted. As usual it seems to be quite representative of the music. Are the different blue figures the same thing but angled in different ways and at different distances (the upper ones tilted to appear as super acute near-lines)? The white and yellow "swishes" - totally vertical like the tunes, while the yellow one is sliced with the remaining spire of a single line continuing all the way to the upper edge. 3D and planar, solid and paper thin, ambiguous. Sleek, super glitchy, quite stylish. It would look cool as a portrait in my hallway.

 

 

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Oh I agree that it's no doubt quite clever, but like the album itself I just don't get it and find it aesthetically hideous. MInd you, I'm probably biased as I had to return two copies of the bloody thing because the metallic inks were splurged and smudged all over the place.