AFX - Orphans
81

These are basically some extras that AFX had in the locker and decided to compile in an EP. Spiral Staircase is gorgeous, both mixes are so acid, yet emotional, Nighmail is a banger and Atlantis take1 exits!

But seriously, if you like aphex twin, listen to this, it's awesome

Autechre - NTS Session 4
87

This album is the equivalent of waking up from a cryofreeze in a giant spaceship and being alone in it. You mess with the computers, eat something, have an existential crisis and start to panic until you somehow manage to come back to your cryosleep. I ascended

Clark - Body Riddle
80

It's super deep and crisp sounding, with some very cool drum lines and synths, but sometimes the record seems fall under a more ambient aproach, which is fine, but I much prefer this very layered sound in tracks such as the intro and the outro. Overall, works together really well, and very tightly packed, which is something a lof of IDM albums seem to forget

Oneohtrix Point Never - Russian Mind
74

The child between Betrayed in The Octagon and Zones Without People but less intresting than the ladder and a little better than the debut. It's ok

Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
95

It's gorgeous, warm, calm, gentle yet epic, like a lazy giant. The 2 hours feel like 45 minutes because of how amazing this is. SOTL truly did something special

Autechre - elseq 1
78

Great way to open up the series, very long songs that aren't exactly the most attention grabbing but definetly have some standout moments. For example, pendulu hv moda has these gorgeous synths that remind me of Bladelores, and 13xStep has something simmilar as well. It all blends together well, but it is a hard listen be warned

Autechre - elseq 3
76

This is the AE album you want to play to scare someone. Eastre is a very hypnotizing track that keeps repeating itself for 20 minutes and each time getting more daunting, TBM2 is like a club banger if it was made in the ISS and mesh cinereaL is this freaky little piece of doo doo that constantly shifts around this percusive melody and scares the hell out of you around the beat drop. Not my favorite elseq, it's kinda bloated, but it is something that I think is worth checking out at least ... read more

Massive Attack - Blue Lines
82

This album basically created Trip Hop and it shows. Production is very drum machine heavy, but this focus in sampling, and old school machines gives this album a pretty solid personality. All tracks feel unique, some cool transitions, and generaly, it flows very well. Some songs are clearly better than the others, and I think Lately and Five Man Army are a bit dragged. Unfinished Sympathy tho, that's an amazing track

Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy
89

This is GOOD DNB. Really good infact. Infectious basslines with some amazing drum samples and funky synths make this album such a joyride.

review 69 hahahahha

Seefeel - Squared Roots
79

Very simmilar to the other EP they released a little before this, but dreamier and with a noticable lack of vocals. Although I miss the ethereal vocals, the textures and the song construction is still incredibly hypnotizing. My standout for this album, As X is Y shows this dreamier aproach, with some great effects that make me feel as if I'm floating in a wintery sky. Overall, it finishes a great year for Warp, and I hope I see more from both Warp and Seefeel in 2025.

UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
88

What a kickass trip hop album. All the features are great, the production is amazing, and overall this is just one of the most consistent trip hop albums I've heard. DJ shadow cooked in Unreal, and Thom Yorke on Rabbit in Your Headlights was incredible.

GAS - Zauberberg
82

Minimal, but beautiful. Dark but Enticing. The debut of GAS is a very beautiful and wicked album, with very long tracks, and a fair use of the 4/4 kick drum he's known for. Though not as textured as his later works, this is still a great project. The last track is amazing

The Alchemist - Flying High
80

Why is it so short :(

Floating Points - Cascade
82

Punchier, groovier and very well produced, this new floating points album is just solidifies even more how FP is an amazing producer with a incredible bright future ahead. The electronic super fans can enjoy this as well as someone who barely listens to music, and that is in my opinion a proof of greatness

GAS - Pop
91

Probably the most lush and textured album I've heard. Pop is the forest in it's fullest glory, alive, detailed, and blissful. So much life emanates from this album, and all of the techno bass drums, samples and noises merge into this giant music piece that is just gorgeous. Pop 4 is his best track

Ils - Idiots Behind the Wheel
83

A very "nightly" album, with some punchy and crunchy sampled drums and loud bass that makes this album very simmilar to DJ Shadow's Endtroducing, but with a more laid back tone. The arrow be pointing me to heart the songs, and be sure I did

Autechre - Draft 7.30
81

One of the hardest albums I've listened to. A mix of bubbly percussion, fading synths and transitions that make this a very claustrophobic and sometimes even exhausting record. It is really a marvel how they even managed to produce this thing without any sort of random AI to help, like in Confield. 6IE.CR and V-PROC are my favorites on the tracklist, with very addicting drums loops, and the 11 minute giant SURRIPERE feels like the evolution of an unkwown lifeform. Really good album, but ... read more

Autechre - Cichlisuite
78

A surprisingly softer EP compared to Envane or Chiastic Slide. Yeesland is a banger, and generaly the EP has some glitchy elements that are really intresting. Carachi is mesmerizing, and Krib has these glass-like percusssion noises that are like a preview of a song like VI Scoise Poise, and Tilapia has one of those synthy ends in the likes of Piezo and Further. Really sweet and short, just how I like it

Autechre - Envane
77

Really cool EP. Goz Quarter manages to make a DJ Scracth sample turn into a mystical adventure, and combined with those drums and synths, it makes the song very grand, and an awesome callback to their graffiti origins. Laughing Quarter is chaotic yet entralhing, but sometimes I feel like the lenght of the songs may go against their will. Still a great EP

LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
80

Really sweet and cool blend of pop and electronic instruments. Some synths are amazing, and although the songs are pretty lenghty, they totally deserve that lenght

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