XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

I do hope so ! Autechre triple album !

comparing this release to what we normally expect from a double album seems to me that it may be, along with quite premature, off base entirely. even an IDM vet like RDJ did a double album basically adhering to the rock/mainstream concepts of such a thing: lots of variation in song style and structure to 'keep it interesting' with a nice intro piece to start the first album, a catcher of a first track for the second album, a nice soft pretty outro piece for the last track on the album preceded by an 'epic' track or two...i'm generalizing like a mofo but i think you may get the idea.

but what i'm saying is i don't think AE are going to approach a double album quite like that. i think this might be closer to Quaristice/Versions/Quadrange in tone of material than Drukqs or whatever else. they probably just had a lot of tracks that they though would work as an album, it just happened to be more than and hour and eighteen minutes or whatever.

as others have noted there is no distinction of 'disc 1, disc 2' or even with something like EP7 where there was a definite split of EP7.1 and EP7.2...this is being presented (from what we know now at least) as one whole album, one which just happens to run over the 'normal' time limits of an album. and further i don't think there will necessarily be any bullshit filler, otherwise they certainly could've added even more tracks...they're over 30 minutes away from running over time for 'filling' two compact discs.

In-depth analysis on what the tracknames might mean/refer to:

1. FLeure

2. irlite (get 0)

03. prac-f

04. jatevee C

05. T ess xi

06. vekoS

07. Flep

08. tuinorizn

09. bladelores

10. 1 1 is

11. nodezsh

12. runrepik

13. spl9

14. cloudline

15. deco Loc

16. recks on

17. YJY UX

And the album title of course:

*golf clap*

  On 12/16/2012 at 8:37 PM, triachus said:

In-depth analysis on what the tracknames might mean/refer to:

 

 

15. deco Loc

 

 

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fucking lawl

not sure about that leak, most likely not Ae, though it sounds tewe-ish (CSlide track 2)

Ts1a > 6852

outstanding work triachus

Yes, I second that accolade.

  On 12/16/2012 at 4:40 PM, phling said:

yes.... glotch do you read this?

read what?

HOLYWTFBBQ! I can NOT wait for this to come out.

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..."To say Exai is a divisive album is (while in line with the effervescent and murky lore Brown/Booth) an understatement. Repeated listens continue to reveal a strange anthropology — here, the footprint of the duo's explorations are front and center, and yet all signifiers dissolve once again. I have to ask myself, what is the strategy, the recourse, and the terrain for Exai?

For the listener it's a familiar engagement with recurrent rewards. But something doesn't feel right here. While Exai is Autechre's celebrated 11th release, it leaves the imprint of something more immediate, less formal. Are we finally given entrance to Booth and Brown's own acknowledgement of their career or is Exai's fruit simply a redefinition of the accidental artifact? Multiple listens continue to reveal a reinvestigation of the nature of "mistake," but what would have been a deliberate "glitch" for 2001, is an immediate flourish tinged with calculated nostalgia. One only they could pull off."

- Patrick Sisson, December 2012

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I dug around a little bit and looks like promos went out with the year-end push. And lo and behold, seems like a review mix is out there! This looks like a snippet of vekoS!!!

http://soundcloud.com/p_sisson/p-sisson-vekos

OHHHH. FUCKK. Shit. I really don't want to listen to snippets before hearing the thing in whole. WELP. Looks like I broke that rule. HUGE PADS.

  On 12/17/2012 at 3:42 AM, gl0tch said:

..."To say Exai is a divisive album is (while in line with the effervescent and murky lore Brown/Booth) an understatement. Repeated listens continue to reveal a strange anthropology — here, the footprint of the duo's explorations are front and center, and yet all signifiers dissolve once again. I have to ask myself, what is the strategy, the recourse, and the terrain for Exai?

 

For the listener it's a familiar engagement with recurrent rewards. But something doesn't feel right here. While Exai is Autechre's celebrated 11th release, it leaves the imprint of something more immediate, less formal. Are we finally given entrance to Booth and Brown's own acknowledgement of their career or is Exai's fruit simply a redefinition of the accidental artifact? Multiple listens continue to reveal a reinvestigation of the nature of "mistake," but what would have been a deliberate "glitch" for 2001, is an immediate flourish tinged with calculated nostalgia. One only they could pull off."

 

- Patrick Sisson, December 2012

Link to this quote before I believe anything you write, glotch. Google turned up nothing. Also I'm sure whats left of xltronic misses your pre release antics.

Edit: didn't even bother listening to the obviously fake "snippet."

lol

Oops. Should have looked at who wrote that post. Grain of salt, I've taken... ;)

Also I'm always apprehensive about a soundcloud member with only one upload.

I love how people with < 50 posts are telling ME what's up.

Whatever. This is real guys. Sisson knows whats up.

  On 12/17/2012 at 4:01 AM, gl0tch said:

I love how people with < 50 posts are telling ME what's up.

 

Whatever. This is real guys. Sisson knows whats up.

It's not like 650 is much better. Plus you know me from xltronic where I have around 4k, even if you pretend you don't. Nice try with the review though ;)

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Yesss.. This is lol.

^hmm. odd quoting :/

Patrick Sisson is a well known reviewer to anyone who read Pitchfork when it was a print zine previous to being on the web, not surprised AE would give the guy one of the early promo copies.

it's your loss if you don't want to hear the new snippet, which i must say is a true return to form. beautiful stuff

edit: clearly it's not a gl0tch track since it sounds very much like 'queersauce' (mike's words not mine) take it with a 'grain of salt' but it's the real deal

  On 12/17/2012 at 4:12 AM, Awepittance said:

clearly it's not a gl0tch track since it sounds very much like 'queersauce' (mike's words not mine) take it with a 'grain of salt' but it's the real deal

Clearly.

  On 12/17/2012 at 4:12 AM, Awepittance said:

Patrick Sisson is a well known reviewer to anyone who read Pitchfork when it was a print zine previous to being on the web, not surprised AE would give the guy one of the early promo copies.

Thanks for putting the matter to rest, I'm sure it's completely legitimate.

I actually don't know what to think of the track. Like Awepitttance said, this is def in the vein of Queersauce, but different. Makes sense in light of the album art actually.

Anyways, there's plenty of private circles online for the oldschool guard, early traders. I'm pretty sure his comments weren't part of an official review.

As for post count, sorry for stepping on your wolf paws, wolfslice.

Well. If Warp is sending out promos I guess I'll be getting mine soon.