Lav's Music Corner

  Autechre - Plus Two months ago if you had told me that Autechre would drop two records of varying intensity I would confidently say I'll take the higher octane of the two, but after putting off the more reserved Plus  for a few weeks I found myself even more enamored with it than it's big brother Sign . This record too is over 60 minutes in length but trades out its predecessors shrill synths and jittery percussion for something more sustained and steady. The three tracks on the record that last over 10 minutes each bring not only a unique sonic palette but also a meaningful and ultimately worthwhile progression. While Plus  isn't completely devoid of up-tempo moments the mixing aims for a much calmer experience this time around and it pays off big time. Even many of the shorter tracks here let their pulsating percussion patterns unravel around  backing instrumentation designed more to calm than to confuse. With improved sonic cohesion and more effective use of a s...

Autechre are a British electronic music duo who have blended their sound across many different sub-genres of electronica through their 3 decade long career of innovating. In the past few years the band has taken to releasing a pair of incredibly long albums with elseq 1-5  and the nearly twice as long NTS Sessions 1-4 . Sign  is the first conventional and moderately lengthy album from Autechre since 2013's Exai . Review By Lavender: I love many of the most influential IDM artists of the 90's including Autechre. I was excited to finally get to review one of their albums without having to commit 4 or even 8 hours each time I wanted to get through the records material, even I have to say come on at some point. Sign  is actually really the tale of two albums spliced together and mixed around. Half of this record is densely layered, rapid fire IDM and the other half is deeply arranged and distantly mixed pseudo-ambient tracks. Making sense of the order in which these tracks ar...