Which album has the best overall flow

I'm talking purely about the album composure. This has nothing to do with whether the tracks are the best or not I'm simply asking which album you think has the best overall album composure.

I'm almost tempted to say EP7 as ironic as that is.

The entirety of Quaristice flows like one track with many movements. I'd go with that one.

*after Between the Buried and me, of course.

Untilted, no question about it..

  On 12/25/2014 at 11:33 AM, chim said:

Untilted, no question about it..

Came here to say the same.

  On 12/25/2014 at 2:08 PM, Verdant Hickies said:

 

  On 12/25/2014 at 11:33 AM, chim said:

 

Untilted, no question about it..

Came here to say the same.

Yeah the flow even in individual tracks is very impressive

Untilted is correct.

whoops i completely missed the "autechre forum" part

SORRY

also I've been really into this one lately

Agree , Untilted is a Monolith

1. LP5 (most intersections of any album, sonically consistent, dramatic arc from start to finish)

2. Quaristice is one story up until Fol3 art least.

Untilted? Dunno, the individual tracks are so vast, hard for me to see the whole.

Oversteps, that's one of the reasons i don't like it (kek i have no reasons for that). Compare it to MoT with alternate takes on the same sounds and you will feel it coming in your face.

Exai. So diverse album and yet the flow is amazing. Such a beautiful sonic journey.

Actually yeah, the flow on Exai is really exceptional from what I recall, though I don't remember if it's like that all through both discs. It may be neck and neck with Quaristice for best flow.

Yeah but Exai is really too long to keep with the flow imo...

I'd go with Oversteps. To me it was the most "easy-listening" Ae album - mostly due to the fact that it's a solid and coherent piece of work !

damn i really have to get back into ae

Exai has a Great flow up until the end of nodeszh.

Quaristice up to the end of fol3.

Oversteps has a great flow throughout.

oversteps

  On 12/25/2014 at 7:09 PM, jaderpansen said:

1. LP5 (most intersections of any album, sonically consistent, dramatic arc from start to finish)

2. Quaristice is one story up until Fol3 art least.

Absolutely correct. Oversteps would be the third in the list.

  On 12/25/2014 at 7:09 PM, jaderpansen said:

1. LP5 (most intersections of any album, sonically consistent, dramatic arc from start to finish)

2. Quaristice is one story up until Fol3 art least.

 

Untilted? Dunno, the individual tracks are so vast, hard for me to see the whole.

Oversteps is too based on the circular repetition of the first three tracks, so yes he got the flow but lacks in dramatic arc/narrative flow that makes lp5 the ae lp with the most classic flow.

Cichli suite is up there too

What do you mean by that?

I'm more (dis)interested in dramatic arc/narrative flow bullshit, sounds like some outdated album marketing for your hottest singer-songwriter type shit.

No mentions of Confield? That's probably the pick for me... Individual tracks are quite different, but unified in their "feel". That album definitely feels like a journey to me, from cover to cover.

  On 12/29/2014 at 1:33 AM, Poiman said:

No mentions of Confield? That's probably the pick for me... Individual tracks are quite different, but unified in their "feel". That album definitely feels like a journey to me, from cover to cover.

Confield is a good collection of tracks, in my opinion. Not much flow.

  On 12/29/2014 at 6:21 PM, Jev said:

 

  On 12/29/2014 at 1:33 AM, Poiman said:

No mentions of Confield? That's probably the pick for me... Individual tracks are quite different, but unified in their "feel". That album definitely feels like a journey to me, from cover to cover.

 

Confield is a good collection of tracks, in my opinion. Not much flow.

 

Interesting. I might actually be an outlier in viewing the whole of Confield as a "story".

I actually feel like all of the albums from Chiastic Slide > Draft are kind of like concept albums with a real sense of story and place. Curiously, I feel like Untilted is just a collection of tracks but it's the most mentioned album in this thread.

I think Chi Slide is a good contender looking at the overall album flow, unified sound palate, and seamless track to track transitions.