Autechre LP5 POLL

i would have gone for Under BOAC until this week. now i have to go for Arch Carrier which goes right back to their b-boy roots.

Arch Carrier is the choice. Although there are so many decent tunes.

Arch Carrier, with Rae a close second.

arch carrier

i like every track on this though, which i can't say for any other autechre album

the silence after "Drane2" and before the Hidden track FTW

Under BOAC

for some reason I really like the "is it washable?" line they throw in there

Arch Carrier - well the Knightrider style tune is neat but the beats are just too plain for my tastes. Acroyear2 is a better package, with the great needling melody and all the weird shit in the background. However I'm gonna vote for the controlled spiral descent of Drane2, one of their best mood pieces.

fucking classic

I went for 'Drane2', but on another day it'd be 'Rae'. Their best mid-to-late period record for me.

Fold4, Wrap5

the rest is like zzz

well the Knightrider style tune is neat but the beats are just too plain for my tastes

It's not about the beat, it's about the incredible yet subtle string sounds that rise through the track.

absolutely agree. one of their most emotional tunes.

Fold 4, Wrap5 is what time travel sounds like. Brilliant.

Drane2 is really the only enjoyable track. Of all the Autechre full lengths this was clearly the most overrated and the fastest to seem dated.

rong! it's still their best one.

Nope, sorry.

dope album, sounds great on the hi-fi. hard to pick a single track as it's better as a whole. rae, while being very pleasant/dense/soft-crunching, doesn't do a lot for me. /me luvs da melancholy melody sense of 'corc'

mr. goodman, you are a moron now get the fuck out of here before i call the police.

I think I listened to this all the way through like twice trying really hard to like it and then ditched it. 1998-2001 is when IDM all went up its own ass and made me hate it after years as an unabashed warp fanboy. silence ftw.

highlights:

"acroyear 2" = freestyle (as in nu shooz, debbie deb, latin rascals) junglism

"vose in" = pure paranoid menace, like watching the ford assembly line robots do secret lock-and-pop battles at night

"fold 4, wrap 5" = lil louis' "french kiss" retooled for R2 droids

"corc" = result of listening to disc 1 of "wu tang forever" too many times

"drane 2" = hail falling through broken skylights at the rusty zither warehouse

lowlights:

"rae" = emo

"under BOAC" = blue man group plays the music of santeria

i'm voting for vose in

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i'm in a bitchy mood today

EMO? seriously?

Because it's really emblematic of emo bands to write eloquently yearning melodies and harmonies...

Oh, and... Arch Carrier, of course.

I never quite got the hang of the first two tracks I'm afraid, but the rest is gold. Maybe my favourite IDM album.

i'm sorry for calling mr. goodman a moron. i was in a really bad mood last night.

i think it was justifiable :)

Def "Drane2" but tracks 3, 6, and 8 were all contenders.

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"drane2"

i wanted to listen before voting so i just did and man does this album sound labored over.

xpost, dammit. +1 to drane2

it would've been interesting if the poll results were a fibonacci number.

it would've been interesting nerdtastic if the poll results were a fibonacci number.

i think that is was the appeal of autechre back then. first time i heard this album i thought it sounded like showing off, but underneath it all there's a lot of melody and genuinely interesting ideas going on. they lost that in later years sadly.

if anything, listening to LP5 today made me appreciate both their later and earlier stuff more. i have been playing amber a lot lately and it is just as good as LP5 and a lot less pretentious sounding.

YES THANK YOU

this is really cliche for ye olde 90s idm listeners I know, but Tri Repetae with the ++ eps (us release) is really my happy medium. Amber borders on being a little bit too comfortable, but there was that shining moment when they were being just weird enough without forgetting that they were making music and not just msp patches

i always found tri rep a little boring and loop-based for my taste. bar a couple of songs, there isn't a whole lot going on in the way of melody, not like LP5.

then again, in the UK you never got the eps tacked on the end so you're stuck with the first ten tracks.

yea some of the best stuff on the american release is on the second disc

it's the Anvil Vapre and Envane EPs, right? Yeah those are really good and I can see why a lot of people like Tri Rep because of them, but I find the album proper to be a bit dry and isolated. Then there was Chiastic Slide, which is actually more experimental and challenging to listen to than LP5. I like LP5 because it has a warm, fun edge to it and each track has a gimmik or idea that sets it apart from the rest. You can say 'Oh, Arch Carrier, that's the Knightrider one with the strings' or 'Fold4, Wrap5 is the one that speeds up and slows down' or 'Under BOAC' is that monstrous noise with "is it washable?" on it.