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Rating: Autechre are back. And forget about albums like "Incunabula" and "Tri Repetae." While keeping the techno rhythms high, you can feel dubstep influences, pounding subwoofers pushed to the peak of power, infrasonic frequencies distributed like bread, acidity of synthesizers, background noise, sudden openings to harmonic keyboards. All of this results in a dark ambiance.
Long suites that test the listener's endurance ("bladeroles") by changing sonic direction while maintaining the same basic theme; the opening of "irlite" is ten minutes in which it seems like Aphex Twin is dedicating himself to a dubstep composition obviously articulated in his own way (who knows if they stole some ideas from him). "Cloudine"—slow acid rap. There's also a lot of play with time and counter time ("T ess xi") and breaks like in "tuinorizn"; with sounds like electronic sitars in "1 1 is" (while devastation falls inexorably loudly), multitudes of echoes and delays on percussion and synth ("nodezsh", "YJY UX").
A strongly "dark" album, the first part absolutely plunged into darkness, the second seeing slightly more of the sunlight. Which puts the speakers to the test with its determined sounds. Pumped up. Certainly a new starting point for future productions.
Rating: 8
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