Autechre - SIGN 16.10.20

Yeah, extremely short :/.

  On 10/13/2020 at 9:15 PM, eclipsis said:

Yeah, extremely short :/.

I can't get that si00 out of my mind. Not that it's a problem, on the contrary, I welcome it willingly; the fact is that too many melodies intertwine, and their mood changes, so when i whistle, muffled by the mask, a mangled combination of cacophony comes out of my mouth. 

  On 10/13/2020 at 9:38 PM, Draft78 said:

I can't get that si00 out of my mind. Not that it's a problem, on the contrary, I welcome it willingly; the fact is that too many melodies intertwine, and their mood changes, so when i whistle, muffled by the mask, a mangled combination of cacophony comes out of my mouth. 

such a cool track.  some choice quotes from the livestream>

  On 10/8/2020 at 10:17 PM, jaderpansen said:

flep's saying hello.

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  On 10/8/2020 at 10:22 PM, Roo said:

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Vinyl preordered, must admit its been a while since a vinyl release has got me this happy

  On 10/13/2020 at 9:52 PM, Lacerbanerva said:

Vinyl preordered, must admit its been a while since a vinyl release has got me this happy

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Downloads are available on the AE store if you preordered. Not sure if that's gone around yet.

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Autechre SIGN Warp CD/DL/LP

Autechre’s propensity for excess over the last seven years – numerous mixes, Warp Tapes 88–93, elseq 1–5, that eight hour NTS box set, and so on – may have obscured the eagerness of Rob Brown and Sean Booth to smuggle pop beauty into their fractured arrhythmias. To put it another way, we all might be forgiven for forgetting that these two have LPs like SIGN lurking in their compositional DNA. For all its hyperactive mania, 2013’s Exai was home to sloping, cybernetic gems like “jatevee C” and “YJY UX” where the duo’s inherent idiosyncrasies proved incapable of quashing all those sweet, sweet micro-hooks, jutting from their unfixed geometries like crystalline splinters.

On SIGN, Autechre lean harder into new age bliss than one might expect. Opener “M4 Lema” folds soothing, glowing tonal sweeps around digitised spackles and clicks. “r cazt” lays out a dissonant, stormy drone, its synthesizers flaring up like space rock guitars. “Metaz form8”, with a host of extended overlapping chords and searching, psychedelic resolutions, is only slightly less linear than a Kali Malone or Sarah Davachi meditation. the cascading “all end” from NTS Sessions aside, they’ve rarely come across as quite this pretty, this ambient, this willing to sidestep the impossible 16 limbed IDM beat entirely.

Yet one can always count on Booth and Brown to wild out pensively and endearingly. Thus there’s the electronic xylophone bongo bounce of “si00” and the felicitous “au14”, which sounds like the outcome of a long, very complex round of the memory game Simon. The tangled, baroque “sch.mefd 2” is another of those certified low-key Ae stunners – think “Gelk”, “Y7” or “Vose In” – that captivates, apparently without really trying. Lumpen notes chase each other up and down engorged, echoing scales; separate chords stalk a warm, bleary melody. A percussive continuity is established – a pop, an imitation snare, a trail of snaps. Seemingly locked in a cycle of self-reinvention and darkening as it advances, the tune is as puzzling as it is gorgeous.   Raymond Cummings

  On 10/13/2020 at 9:11 PM, ignatius said:

"It’s difficult to listen to because it’s too emotionally resonant. "

nail on the head. fuck. this is how i felt on first listen. so heavy. 

definitely 

I was amazed some of y'all were diving right back in after the live stream. I needed to lie on the floor and take deep breaths I was so emotionally exhausted.

  On 10/13/2020 at 8:07 PM, Chabraendeky said:

Was this already shared here?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/arts/music/autechre-sign-interview.html

NY Times interview with Ae abut SIGN. There are some pearls in it...

“I’m not sure that art can be produced by computer.”

SIGN

it's rare that i understand wtf a review is even about. 

  On 10/13/2020 at 8:35 PM, d-a-m-o said:

The capitalized album title, Brown said, is “an initialization, but we don’t want to tell anybody what it stands for.”

 

Society Is Gone Now

Sean is Gathering Nugs

Just got my CD in the mail! 

Green yin or orange yin #matchmakers 

I love M4 Lema

A strong feeling si00 will grow on me

psin AM & r cazt very much nice

"You r cazt off from this mortal coil" is more like it.

Singularity is getting nearer

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As a kid my nightmares were typically based around a repetitive dread, tableaux of water bore drilling, failed crop enterprises, and sinister infinite livestock counts, and a few tracks here tickle that brooding  procrastinating demonic twist.

I personally don’t have an endurance problem with the emotional resonance here. I’m an introverted empath of sorts, so I get the need for boundaries, but SIGN doesn’t overload me at all. I love emotionally raw music and find it therapeutic.

  On 10/13/2020 at 8:35 PM, d-a-m-o said:

The capitalized album title, Brown said, is “an initialization, but we don’t want to tell anybody what it stands for.”

 

Sean Is Gay Now

Son, I'mdisappoint Good Night

Quick question: initialization = abbreviation?