XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

Samples on Norman sound great, it's hard to judge from clips but there's a great variety in style, really looking forward to this now.

C'mon BLEEP, man the fuck up.

samples sound intriguing. As someone else said above, "I'm worried about how much I like them" - they seem very accessible and up front. I do get the live tour material feel as well. What's up with the melodic one, sounds like a pisstake heh. Sound palette seems quite Gantz Graf/Untilted-y. Still pretty exaited.

holy shitballs

I think Untilted album artwork is my favorite of theirs.

lol

Amber is 2nd fav

Probably the most uncreative album art Ae has ever used...

  On 1/31/2013 at 3:06 AM, 3849 said:

3849, on 30 Jan 2013 - 19:13, said:

Probably the most uncreative album art Ae has ever used...

Uncreative? Cause its a photo? To me it captures the ambient space techno jams perfectly. Alien but not completely abstract. A faded memory of another world.

  On 1/31/2013 at 3:06 AM, 3849 said:

Probably the most uncreative album art Ae has ever used...

It's one of my favorites. It's actually perfectly what the music makes me feel like and think of.

  On 1/31/2013 at 3:07 AM, compson said:

Uncreative? Cause its a photo? To me it captures the ambient space techno jams perfectly. Alien but not completely abstract. A faded memory of another world.

Yeah, despite Amber being spacey it somehow is very familiar and close. Early 90s vision of sci-fi - it looks plastic. But it's totally real and the Earth has already created it, which makes it real strange - such an alien thing right at home.

I'm not saying the covers are the most perfect they can be but Sean and Rob are very good at recognizing visuals that correspond to their atmosphere.

I don't like Amber either, so.

For shitty album art it's hard to beat the trifecta of quaristice oversteps and exai.

I can hear TDR crying out "but...but...we gave you individual per track black and white squares! We gave you paper stock! What more do you want from ussssssssssssss!"

Oh come on, quaristice album art is outstanding.

Draft 7.30's album art was made by aliens. Oversteps' album art was made by first graders.

Quaristice's cover is funny. The typography is a hoot. I love that all the information is right on the front. I don't get very much blue from the music though.

On the other hand, I don't like Q as much as most of their stuff, haha. So far our opinions of the art has kind of correlated with musical preferences. Is it possible that the cover art has influence on what we hear? Or that what we hear in the music has changed our perception of the art? If there is any discord in the two is our reasoning of the art as a whole package placed in either direction?

anything is possible, including this leaking right now.

*checks*

ffs

  On 1/31/2013 at 3:48 AM, ambermonk said:

Draft 7.30's album art was made by aliens. Oversteps' album art was made by first graders.

If anything, the opposite is true. :)

I'm still impressed by the fact that we've collectively jizzed our drawers over 9 (out of 17), 30 second previews likely reencoded at like 32kbps or some bullshit.

What's this, like 6-7 times removed of from lossless quality at about 2% of the length of the album?

Fucking Autechre.

  On 1/31/2013 at 3:36 AM, Joseph said:

Oh come on, quaristice album art is outstanding.

In particular, the steel slipcase is a work of sheer genius. There's little in the world of packaging coupled with graphic design and typography that can top it.

I thought I should point out that the new DarkStar album is out a full month before Exai and only leaked today (I think).

Fuck.

  On 1/31/2013 at 3:48 AM, ambermonk said:

Draft 7.30's album art was made by aliens. Oversteps' album art was made by first graders.

I like the Oversteps art, but I also like first graders, so... XD

  On 1/31/2013 at 4:00 AM, gl0tch said:

I thought I should point out that the new DarkStar album is out a full month before Exai and only leaked today (I think).

 

Fuck.

Well, fuck indeed.

But I still have high hopes for an early mp3 release before this week end.

Looking at what they did with the past 3 albums.

(btw, I don't remember, but did all this early mp3 release were triggered by a huge leak they couldn't control or just a more minor thing, like tracks being played here and there ?)

nvm!

OH MY FUCKING GOD CANT WAIT