Um, well, it's out now to download.
I've just finished listening to it. I've had a rubbish day at work (where I still am), so I wasn't maybe in the right frame of mind for the avant-acid-experimental-ambient complexities. And yet, I still enjoyed it.
It's, well let's start by saying it's Autechre, and therefore I anticipated crunching insectoid rhythm-collapses layered over massive throbbing motors of bass.
It's a bit that, but a lot the other as well. first thing that strikes is that tehre are 20 tracks, which is a bit of a different feel for them, I'm always expecting long long tunes.
There are some very pretty layered, gentle almost-strings tracks that bring to mind early The Black Dog; there are a few click-hop thumpers- little metallic noises stretched and warped to snapping point intercised with blatts of analog synth stabs before crashing into swirling washing-machine vortices; there's some jarring avant-comp-esque stuff as well, which is a bit much to handle, kind of like Delia Derbyshire+Autechre but with the inevitable arrival of the "drums" it all falls into place...
So, in summary, there's a fair amount of beatless stuff, no screaming acid, very little in the way of simple structures... music for really listening to.
It's jolly fine, unmistakably Autechre, but different nonetheless. No obvious dancefloor killers, but we all expected that
Stand-out tune for me at the moment is plyPhon, because it touches on the Chiastic Slide era micro-mechanical-menace vibe.
I've just finished listening to it. I've had a rubbish day at work (where I still am), so I wasn't maybe in the right frame of mind for the avant-acid-experimental-ambient complexities. And yet, I still enjoyed it.
It's, well let's start by saying it's Autechre, and therefore I anticipated crunching insectoid rhythm-collapses layered over massive throbbing motors of bass.
It's a bit that, but a lot the other as well. first thing that strikes is that tehre are 20 tracks, which is a bit of a different feel for them, I'm always expecting long long tunes.
There are some very pretty layered, gentle almost-strings tracks that bring to mind early The Black Dog; there are a few click-hop thumpers- little metallic noises stretched and warped to snapping point intercised with blatts of analog synth stabs before crashing into swirling washing-machine vortices; there's some jarring avant-comp-esque stuff as well, which is a bit much to handle, kind of like Delia Derbyshire+Autechre but with the inevitable arrival of the "drums" it all falls into place...
So, in summary, there's a fair amount of beatless stuff, no screaming acid, very little in the way of simple structures... music for really listening to.
It's jolly fine, unmistakably Autechre, but different nonetheless. No obvious dancefloor killers, but we all expected that
Stand-out tune for me at the moment is plyPhon, because it touches on the Chiastic Slide era micro-mechanical-menace vibe.
Fucking hell! Just got it, it's superb! Really surprisingly pleasant! 
