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As the album flies by, so do the various sounds, ping-ponging between channels like super-fast flies and adding to the ambience sculpted within. Danceable it ain't, but as a think-piece, it's very effective. --Thom Allott
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The opening section of "Pro Radii" displays a condensed textural fascination that's closer to Untilted's immediate predecessors. The momentary sliver of a rapper's exclamation grounds the enterprise in Autechre's hiphop roots, even though the music accelerates away into bitmapped canyons and everglades. "Augmatic Disport" pummels the listener repeatedly with concentrated beats which act as brief regulating grids between subsections that rapidly coil and uncoil in full claustrophobic effect. The result is simultaneously nightmarish and exhilarating.
If one of the primary concerns of Autechre's previous release, Draft 7.30, was texture, Untilted is very much fascinated with rhythm and metamorphosis. It also marks a further waystation in the rejection of melody in favour of a percussive (hyper)activity. This has seen the group gradually simplify their melodies until they appeared strangely out of place paired with the complexity of their rhythmic and textural experimentation. This stripping away prompts a sense of lack and a concommitant uncertainty that makes Untilted initially difficult to assimilate. Given persistent listening, however, an unsuspected sense of logic gradually reveals itself.
Untilted marks a new form of frenetic starkness that might be compared to Alva Noto's output, except that Autechre's sound is less clinical and more viscerally muscular. It succeeds in challenging, frustrating and exciting while conveying a sense of teemingly intense vitality. The eighth and final track, "Sublimit", underlines this. At 15.52 minutes it may just be the longest track Autechre have released. It's also arguably the most pared down and variegated composition the group have produced.
Untilted may test many listeners yet again, some will applaud it as a return to what Autechre does best, others deplore it for its rejection of whatever they perceive as the group's core values. As with every previous release, the fascination lies in the music's singularity and its continuing challenge, surely a result of the duo's fastidious single-mindedness. Check. --Colin Buttimer
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Opener LCC is very dark but breaks down into a more mellow piece towards the end - very powerful piece.
Ipacial Section is chaotic and the melody is very strange unlike any other types of music available you can hear elements of this chaos in the live tour which accompanied the album.
Pro Radii - i wish i had speakers that could do this track justice cos its simply stunning and very powerful a firm favourite.
Augmatic Disport - possibly the most difficult track to follow -very complex especially the beginning
Iera - i dont know what is going on here but it sure sounds good.
Fermium - im not such a fan of this one but totally listenable.
The Trees - i hated this at first but the more i listened to it the more detail i heard and now its probably my favourite on the album.
Sublimit - im still trying to work this out!
There are so many ideas here it's really amazing; each track sounds like at least three seemlessly spliced together genetic experiments. Warped alien atmospherics mutate into full on cosmic warfare before melting down into synthetic post-apocalyptic symphonies. The merest of electro magnetic pulses shift into gravitational fields that could alter the orbits of passing planets. What was thought dead thrusts its hand up through the dirt only to be shellacked in silicone and whisked into the future, to a meta-glass museum of Autechre that houses a melded combination of what is old and new.
I have the headphones on even now...
The album is one of the more difficult Autechre offerings so if you're new to them I would recommend starting somewhere else but this album is true genius.
Beautifully layered time signatures collide, sync and contrast and pounding, glitched techno drums churn and pulsate while slow pads and fractured melodies build. The best thing for me about this album is the mind bending transitions between distinct parts within tracks. Where suddenly everything is reversed, or inverted. It is so beautifully subtle yet a very aggressive and driving release too.
Pure musical maths.
PS - As someone said before, this release needs to be listened to on vinyl or CD. MP3 quality is a waste of money. ;)
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