Autechre - Exai
by Maarten Schiethart
published: 27 / 2 / 2013
Label:
Warp Records
Format: CD
intro
Indifferent and over-long eleventh album from Sheffield-based electronic duo, Autechre
The duo's eleventh album is a 2CD or 4LP set that at best, and for perhaps only thirty minutes of its lengthy runing time, is mildly interesting. One of the few challenging moments is a part of 'Nodezsh'. yet even that mood rapidly develops into a rut. 'Exai' doesn't even annoy, and the album's indifference has resulted in stereotypical art gallery soundscapes. 'Exai' does have a structure. The first 45 minutes are amazingly dull. Then this seventeen track time consumption features a couple of instances of genuine imagination, albeit just chunks in a lukewarm watery soup. The scattered sparks, cracks, drumloops and bleeps go on and off and only build a blanket of sound. Autechre never set out to please, but on 'Exai' the duo fails to intrigue or to annoy. 'Exai' isn't even depressing. Played in a supermarket it wouldn't lead to a revolt. File in musique concrète.
Track Listing:-
1 Fleure2 irlite (get 0)
3 prac-f
4 jatevee C
5 T ess xi
6 vekoS
7 Flep
8 tuinorizn
9 bladelores
10 1 1 is
11 nodezsh
12 runrepik
13 spl9
14 cloudline
15 deco Loc
16 recks on
17 YJY UX
Band Links:-
https://www.facebook.com/Autechre-%C3%A6-106935292671631/http://autechre.ws/
https://twitter.com/Autechre_Exai
Label Links:-
http://warp.net/https://www.facebook.com/warprecords
https://twitter.com/warprecords
https://www.youtube.com/user/warprecords
reviews |
|
Quaristice (2008) |
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| Inventive ninth album from Autechre, whose intelligent dance music on this record is analogically and digitally generated from almost thirty years of electronic equipment and techniques |
| Untilted (2005) |
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