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Slavo.. Why would I be joking? I have everything they've done and have listened to them for a good 5 years now. I'm very passionate about them and have all their stuff memorized. It took me a while to get into but now that I'm there, I'm in love...
This album is a masterpiece. Maybe "Draft" comes close to toppling it and maybe the newness will wear off.. but.. the album is so full of ideas .. I dunno. It's just great. It's addicting. I read an interview with them recently that said all their fans should just about to be close to understanding "Untilted". That seems like a pretty pretentious and ridiculous thing to say. Though that album's great, it's pretty immediate and catchy compared to this. This album has simultaneously their most melodic, noisey, complicated, straightforward, and beautiful work.
It's most definitely not random. I've dabbling in making glitchy music like this (which is really boring to make after a while and usually boring to listen to), and I can safely say that there could be some random qualities to their sounds (and indeed there are "generative" techniques employed, which is a bit different), but they definitely have some stuff going on that is meticulously and brilliantly programmed and arranged.
Also, the bass on this album is incredible.
Autechre are very consistent and don't flood the market with bullshit, and I really appreciate that.. on the other hand, the preorders with the "Second disc".. I'm taking a wild guess the second disc will be awful.. hmph.
Anyway, great band, great album, we've still got a long long way to go for music this year so I'm sure it'll be forgotten by me by December 31st, but the only other albums I've heard that come close to this are the new Autistic Daughters and the new Dengue Fever...
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