XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

clicking tongues in the shade. splashes

For those that are complaining about the last 3 albums, it's probably to do with number of songs.

As album listeners, a lot of us are drilled into thinking that a classic album needs like 7-12 songs. 5 or 14 at the most extreme. So when a trio of albums come along with 20, 14 & 17 tracks respectively, It can be a lot for some mere mortals to take in. Especially given the 2 hour running time.

Really liking Exai so far, it's another beast in itself yet again.

Fingers crossed for a dual disc EP to be announced in the spring

Enjoying the album much with repeat listens. Still hearing new things with repeat listens so I'll take a while before I find any real critiques with it, or I just won't bother for a change.

For nearly every nitpick regarding a track I can find something sweet buried within, every listen I hear new details or some idea they were playing with that I didn't hear the last time around.. It's almost like their senses are sharper than they've ever been.. like the microsound references (esp playing with thresholds between pitch-delay), the things they are doing with spacialization and mixing esp in the treble, and all the little constant changes in the textures and how the parts work together, weaving in and out of each other. And technicalities aside it's just so easy to soak into and float away in. Sooo good.

The reverb work makes me want to quit my life (in the best possible way) ;)

The reverb makes it sound like a large chunk of the album operates inside an enormous underground cave

  On 2/12/2013 at 3:38 AM, thehauntingsoul said:

Fingers crossed for a dual disc EP to be announced in the spring

since this is a double disc, I wouldn't be surprised if they shun tradition with an accompying ep.

  On 2/12/2013 at 5:19 AM, jules said:

 

  On 2/12/2013 at 3:38 AM, thehauntingsoul said:

Fingers crossed for a dual disc EP to be announced in the spring

since this is a double disc, I wouldn't be surprised if they shun tradition with an accompying ep.

Maybe a shorty 3 or 4 songer like the early days. Not the basically almost album length ones of recent. I think Spring is too early however, either way. June or September would be my guess if anything.

I'd rather hear this material in a live setting. your this bitch!

  On 2/12/2013 at 3:50 AM, TwiddleBot said:

And technicalities aside it's just so easy to soak into and float away in. Sooo good.

That's the key. I think it resists a rational inventory of the "goods" and "bads" of each track. Overall it's really quite ambient (I agree with the other person who said it's like SAW2). Very good album to work to.

I agree. I always thought that Untilted was good to work, as well. After an Adderall and three espressos.

This is different than that tho. There are a lot of big washy textures that somehow become more pronounced the more acclimated to the beats you become.

  On 2/12/2013 at 5:32 AM, lumpenprol said:

 

  On 2/12/2013 at 3:50 AM, TwiddleBot said:

And technicalities aside it's just so easy to soak into and float away in. Sooo good.

 

 

That's the key. I think it resists a rational inventory of the "goods" and "bads" of each track. Overall it's really quite ambient (I agree with the other person who said it's like SAW2). Very good album to work to.

^Same, agreed, I mean as a musician/producer I'm happy to stop and analyse/criticize the technique, but at the end of the day it's really all about evoking moods+headspaces...

  On 2/12/2013 at 5:59 AM, TwiddleBot said:

 

  On 2/12/2013 at 5:32 AM, lumpenprol said:

 

  On 2/12/2013 at 3:50 AM, TwiddleBot said:

And technicalities aside it's just so easy to soak into and float away in. Sooo good.

 

 

That's the key. I think it resists a rational inventory of the "goods" and "bads" of each track. Overall it's really quite ambient (I agree with the other person who said it's like SAW2). Very good album to work to.

 

^Same, agreed, I mean as a musician/producer I'm happy to stop and analyse/criticize the technique, but at the end of the day it's really all about evoking moods+headspaces...

I think exai did a great job of this for me.

Really put me through a number of different feelings, most of it was a sense of adventure and awe, like waking up on a different planet.

www.winamp.com

http://www.milkdrop.co.uk/

And if you need extras

http://forums.winamp.com/forumdisplay.php?f=84

Watch Exai.

THE most amazing thing I've ever seen/heard on Milkdrop.

Fuck Itunes.

80,000+ Visualizations.

Treat yourself.

Just want to chime in and say there seems to be a lot of dislike for runrepik... If it's your least favorite, you're kind of a dick.

You'll proclaim it among your favorites next week, at which point you will be correct.

<3

Edit: What a treat of an album :)

  On 2/12/2013 at 6:59 AM, Retrig said:

Just want to chime in and say there seems to be a lot of dislike for runrepik... If it's your least favorite, you're kind of a dick.

You'll proclaim it among your favorites next week, at which point you will be correct.

<3

Edit: What a treat of an album :)

I love that trkk

  On 2/12/2013 at 7:05 AM, usagi said:

I like runrepik just for the rubber-ducky noises, the rest of the track can go fuck itself (in the ass (and then disappear up its own ass (in true Ae fashion)))

And that's what it's all about. And I don't get the love for bladelores other than this epic thread, but next week I'll be jizzing myself straight to the forehead over it. Great album, overall :)

at first i hated that one synth line that comes halfway through runrepik, now i kind of like it. It sounds like a glitched out (sending poly data to a mono source) Midi to CV line going to an analog synth

  On 2/12/2013 at 6:59 AM, Retrig said:

Just want to chime in and say there seems to be a lot of dislike for runrepik... If it's your least favorite, you're kind of a dick.

You'll proclaim it among your favorites next week, at which point you will be correct.

<3

Edit: What a treat of an album :)

Has runrepik fed some hungry kittens I don't know about? Did runrepik donate its proceeds to cancer victims? Did I miss the press release about runrepik's sick mother?

If so perhaps speaking ill of runrepik made me a dick

... But til that time...

I always thought it would be impossible to have a thread about a new Autechre release turn into a discussion about dicks. But today I am proven wrong. Well done!

  On 2/12/2013 at 7:15 AM, fizzkinz said:

 

  On 2/12/2013 at 6:59 AM, Retrig said:

Just want to chime in and say there seems to be a lot of dislike for runrepik... If it's your least favorite, you're kind of a dick.

You'll proclaim it among your favorites next week, at which point you will be correct.

<3

Edit: What a treat of an album :)

Well you're a dick for proclaiming me/others as dicks without any reason to link feelings towards runrepik and dickishness.

Has runrepik fed some hungry kittens I don't know about? Did runrepik donate its proceeds to cancer victims? Did I miss the press release about runrepik's sick mother?

If so perhaps speaking ill of runrepik made me a dick

... But til that time...

You are correct. I am a runrepdick for expressing my emotions toward the victims of cancer proceeds. I will release Dick's sick mother to the time when, perhaps, we, and others, will all be speaking of our link to the reason for dick. Amen.

  On 2/12/2013 at 7:17 AM, Retrig said:

 

  On 2/12/2013 at 7:15 AM, fizzkinz said:

 

  On 2/12/2013 at 6:59 AM, Retrig said:

Just want to chime in and say there seems to be a lot of dislike for runrepik... If it's your least favorite, you're kind of a dick.

You'll proclaim it among your favorites next week, at which point you will be correct.

<3

Edit: What a treat of an album :)

Well you're a dick for proclaiming me/others as dicks without any reason to link feelings towards runrepik and dickishness.

Has runrepik fed some hungry kittens I don't know about? Did runrepik donate its proceeds to cancer victims? Did I miss the press release about runrepik's sick mother?

If so perhaps speaking ill of runrepik made me a dick

... But til that time...

You are correct. I am a runrepdick for expressing my emotions toward the victims of cancer proceeds. I will release Dick's sick mother to the time when, perhaps, we, and others, will all be speaking of our link to the reason for dick. Amen.

Edit:

We R Are Why. Are Y Are We?

If there are two things I can feel comfortable with, it's that we are all dicks, and Exai is an exceptional album

  On 2/12/2013 at 7:10 AM, Awepittance said:

at first i hated that one synth line that comes halfway through runrepik, now i kind of like it. It sounds like a glitched out (sending poly data to a mono source) Midi to CV line going to an analog synth

That's what I like about it.

I was thinking it could also be Monomachine arp at a weird rate with sq wv pitch mod