With Untilted, it's apparent that Autechre are still on top of their game.
[With] great globules of synthetic sound filtered and processed into a litany of strange-yet-compelling landscapes.
Close to 15 years after their formation, Autechre certainly aren't launching any new styles, and there's no innovative music to be heard here, but Untilted does represent the duo returning to the green fields of their youth after a few years sowing their wild oats.
Untilted, their eighth album, is pitched somewhere between the skewed sonics of Confield and the more restrained Draft 7.30, and it's likely to alienate all but their most ardent fans.
When you start off by reinventing music, you kinda have to keep on doing that to avoid the self-parody that Untilted verges on.
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Honestly I think this made me realize that I don’t really care for Idm. The only album from the genre that I’ve really loved is Selected Ambient Works Volume 1. I’m not really used to the genre at all so a lot of this album just sounded like random noises to me. It honestly kind of annoyed me for a lot of the albums runtime. There were a few moments that I did enjoy however. I genuinely enjoyed the first song and ... read more
AUTECHRE DEEP DIVE #8
Untilted (an album whose title my ADHD-addled ass misread for literal years) is by far the blandest album of the electronic duo so far in their catalogue, but its rhythmic dexterity and constant metamorphosis is still a stunning sight to behold.
After the mercurial and constantly evolving sound of Confield and Draft 7.30, Untilted sees the duo returning to more conventional rhythm and structure. Their previous records were shifting constantly, never arriving at a steady ... read more
THIS ALBUM IS SO CRAZY BRO
like genuinely nonstop energy
best tracks 👑 sublimit, ipacial section, pro radii
worst track🗑️ iera
ooooh Confield's cousin??? i'm all in honeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
sometimes i question myself HOW TF AUTECHRE MAKE THEIR MUSIC. the more i get into them the more confused i am.
well this album is still a pretty futuristic album with a lot of complex and avant-garde sound design just like my dear lovely Confield.
it just doesn't hit quite the same as Confield did lol
9.4/10 -> [9.5/10]
<3 : LCC, Ipacial Section, Pro Radii, The Trees, Sublimit
idk what to say about this album, man. It's so perplexing. Better than confiled ig
| 1 | LCC 7:46 | 89 |
| 2 | Ipacial Section 9:57 | 89 |
| 3 | Pro Radii 8:41 | 83 |
| 4 | Augmatic Disport 9:27 | 81 |
| 5 | Iera 4:54 | 79 |
| 6 | Fermium 5:44 | 82 |
| 7 | The Trees 7:26 | 80 |
| 8 | Sublimit 15:52 | 86 |