Autechre - SIGN 16.10.20

This is such a fall album. It works best as a full continuous listen while walking somewhere on a classic "Fall day" or specifically from the evening/sunset and into the dark. In the years since its release I can only get into it this time of year, but then it really fits well.

  On 10/8/2023 at 1:41 AM, toaoaoad said:

This is such a fall album. It works best as a full continuous listen while walking somewhere on a classic "Fall day" or specifically from the evening/sunset and into the dark. In the years since its release I can only get into it this time of year, but then it really fits well.

Agreed. I'm happy to listen to it year round, but I think of it as very autumnal.

Sean Is Gonna Nut

Happy Autechre Day 

This album turns FOUR on Wednesday, hard to believe it was released that long ago. Anyways I just took a fall stroll (it officially turned from 'warm' fall weather to 'cold' fall weather today) while listening to the album on airpods pro at a decently loud volume. Very immersed in it and my settings. Damn I love this album!

Why does time go by so fast...

  On 10/14/2024 at 7:55 PM, Friendly Stranger said:

This album turns FOUR on Wednesday, hard to believe it was released that long ago. Anyways I just took a fall stroll (it officially turned from 'warm' fall weather to 'cold' fall weather today) while listening to the album on airpods pro at a decently loud volume. Very immersed in it and my settings. Damn I love this album!

Same for me, cold/rainy fall is prime Ae weather I reckon

Both of the EPs instantly take me back to those weird cabin-fever-is-it-ever-gonna-end-but-now-sorta-getting-used-to-it-like-the-tail-end-of-a-fever-dream Covid days

Pretty sure I put this here back when I did it but couldn't find it in this 166 page(!) tome

  On 10/14/2024 at 10:40 PM, mcbpete said:

Both of the EPs

listened to SIGN after work today. good stuff. the sequencing still strikes me as the biggest miss of this (+ PLUS as well...), tracks are strong/really good, couple of classics (M4 Lema & r cazt imo)

  On 10/15/2024 at 1:55 AM, auxien said:

 

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Going by Stan Autocue's best wishes (17:42):

(could've sworn they were WAP catalogue numbers rather than WARP # )

wow, crazy to see Sean be so wrong about his & Rob’s own music  

PLUS most feels like an EP to be fair, SIGN is def more an album vibe to me tho

SIGN is more cohesive and varied imo. It's been a real grower over these past 4 years. Definetely a nice breather after all the 400+ hours of material they had been putting out over the previous years. I dont return to PLUS nearly as much, it doesnt sound as memorable to me. 

  On 10/15/2024 at 12:09 PM, mcbpete said:

Going by Stan Autocue's best wishes (17:42):

(could've sworn they were WAP catalogue numbers rather than WARP # )

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he's saying PLUS should've been an EP though. SIGN is still definitively an LP

They're both maxi-singles. SIGN is m4 Lema with 10 b-sides, PLUS is all remixes of marhide. 

its both extremely easy and beyond difficult to comprehend that it's been 4 years since SIGN

  On 10/15/2024 at 1:55 AM, auxien said:

 

 

listened to SIGN after work today. good stuff. the sequencing still strikes me as the biggest miss of this (+ PLUS as well...)

Whatya mean miss? 

I'm not listening to Sign or Plus too often. Not convinced. Last time I was: NTS Sessions. Quite some while ago. The dusk, maybe night, of a great era, fanbois. Der Untergang.

  On 10/16/2024 at 12:35 PM, WurstPLUS said:

I'm not listening to Sign or Plus too often. Not convinced. Last time I was: NTS Sessions. Quite some while ago. The dusk, maybe night, of a great era, fanbois. Der Untergang.

Don't be overdramatic lol, Sign and Plus we're still incredible shows of quality. I don't understand the need for some AE fans to get 10 hour projects everytime. We've had so much live material over the years, we got elseq, we got NTS. I think the fact that they can still produce a quality hour long project is more of a testament to their skill than putting out gigabytes of long form stuff every other month

  On 10/16/2024 at 12:48 PM, thumbass said:

I don't understand the need for some AE fans to get 10 hour projects everytime. We've had so much live material over the years, we got elseq, we got NTS. I think the fact that they can still produce a quality hour long project is more of a testament to their skill than putting out gigabytes of long form stuff every other month

You're maybe not refering to me, but I am absolutely not about quantity. Most of the music on Sign/Plus just doesn't attract me. Recent Ae_Live even less, I'm saying the evil word there: "noodling".

  On 10/16/2024 at 10:17 AM, xox said:

Whatya mean miss? 

the track sequencing is weird, i think it makes the album a bit disjointed & uneven.

  On 10/16/2024 at 4:28 PM, auxien said:

the track sequencing is weird, i think it makes the album a bit disjointed & uneven.

Weird? You’ve said even less this time  

Just the thread pump needed! Now giving it a spin with a cold beer (literally a beer called Cold Beer) think I may have mentioned it before r cazt is a fave for me and both Sign and Plus are ace I enjoy playing them one after the other. Night sorted

they prolly coulda mixed and matched the tracklists of both into a coherent double cd thing. but im pretty happy with them as separate projects as it is. big ol spacious sounds

  On 10/16/2024 at 7:05 PM, mushroom said:

they prolly coulda mixed and matched the tracklists of both into a coherent double cd thing. but im pretty happy with them as separate projects as it is. big ol spacious sounds

I was thinking about it also like if they could have done it in another way. 
Little bit off when it goes like "2 NEW Albums" 1 is the main and the other album is just tracks that didn't made it to the main album and too big for being a EP.