Autechre on ice

zaphod · August 18, 2018

i'm always disappointed by how unimaginative descriptions of electronic music are. whenever i read the words "cold" or "icy" i roll my eyes. also a lot of descriptions i've read here on watmm where people say autechre makes them visualize robots building things or robots fighting or whatever. i never really think about stuff like that when i hear this music. it's more abstract, and then sometimes incredibly specific. to me autechre is very much about space, rooms, architecture, vast spaces and vistas forming and receding. there's an emotional core to a lot of their music, although it's the subtler and more mild emotion of a lot of great electronic music, more of a heightened awareness of truth as some kind of universal melancholy. a vision of the sublime.