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Enchanting and cozy. Colorful and peculiar. This instrumental space-age pop, and its inspiration from the natural world, is incredibly endearing.

This hour-long EP is the bridge between Autechre’s 90s material and their work from Confield and onwards. It’s the earliest release where you can hear the rolling glitches and liquid textures in their music that dominate moving forward in their discography. The rigid rhythms that dominated their previous albums dissipate into something shapeless and harder to define.

Warm and textured, Loop-finding-jazz-records sounds very little like the sampling source material, which has been heavily manipulated by Jelinek - bitcrushed, filtered, and pitched into oblivion. It serves more of an ambient function, as it’s soothing and quiet, begging for a late night, in-the-dark listening meditation.

Atypical of most Autechre releases, Quaristice is mostly made up of shorter tracks. The duo dips you in and out of soundscapes, some of which are more impactful than others. The shorter song lengths mean less time for tracks to build and progress in typical Autechre fashion, so the songs either grab you pretty immediately or float on right by.