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Quaristice (CD)

By: Autechre
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DISC 1 for Quaristice (CD) Album By Autechre
1   Altibzz
2   Plc, The
3   IO
4   Plyphon
5   Perlence
6   SonDEremawe
7   Simmm
8   Paralel Suns
9   Steels
10   Tankakern
11   Rale
12   Fol3
13   fwzE
14   90101-51-1
15   bnc Castl
16   Theswere
17   WNSN
18   chenc9
19   Notwo
20   Outh9X
 
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Review

Spin (p.96) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Simultaneously melancholy and lascivious, it's pure aural pleasure.
Uncut (p.83) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The LP] boasts a well-honed ambient edge: take the lush 'Simmm', a mugful of nanobots cogitating noisily over warm synth drones. It's their best since 1998's LP5."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[Y]ou get trademark synth lines rising once more from the still-life ambience of 'Outh9X', dazzling multiple planes of activity on 'Perlence', and some new combinations....It's a fantastic collection..."

Title Note

Among detractors, electronic music is often criticized for wanting some undefined quality, most often related to some perception of a lack of "warmth" or "soul." The music of U.K. electronic pioneers Autechre makes no such easy concessions to what might be considered pedestrian concerns. Since the early 90s, Sean Booth and Rob Brown have been generating a parallel universe of sound--a sound that has pushed at the boundaries of musical abstraction by exploring the multiplicities and infinite variations offered by technology.

On their ninth album, QUARISTICE, Autechre's technology-driven imperative is as uncompromising as ever. But rather than construct a maze of refracted, endlessly variegated sound, they choose to break up the set into shorter sonic vignettes, each delving into a specific, focused area of exploration with more subtle gradients and variation. The spectral, pulsing drones of "Altibzz," the album's opener, represents a return to the pastoral ambient electronica of the duo's second album AMBER. But the becalming textures are short-lived as the methodical clanking of snares on "The Plc" reference the more brutal corners of minimal techno, even as the swirling, elliptical synths create a drunken counterpoint. Despite all the gloriously rumpled beat programming and intricate DSP-processing, QUARISTICE is, in many ways, Autechre's most earth-bound effort, as revealed in the brightly colored, nearly baroque melodies of "Simm," perhaps the closest the duo have arrived to a pure pop moment.

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