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10.0
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The Skinny
By bringing their production genius to bear on such deep reserves of human feeling Autechre have created their most important record since 2001's game-changing Confield
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9.0
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Drowned In Sound
A challenging listen, and one which reveals endless layers of new detail with each spin. But it’s also their most instantly rewarding – and arguably best – album to date
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9.0
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Pop Matters
It’s a masterpiece—not Autechre’s first, and almost certainly not the last, reestablishing their place as standard-bearers in the genre
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8.5
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The Quietus
At points it is obtuse and wilfully antagonistic. At others it is sublime. Some of the music here is as good as anything Autechre have created
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8.0
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The List
Hard to explain but easy to love, this record is a tapestry of instrumental electronic abstractions which feed on the imagination
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8.0
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NME
An enticing 'Welcome' billboard for their sometimes harrowing, often hopeful City of Sound. Print edition only
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8.0
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State
There is an underlying emotional tug that brings Aphex Twin’s Drukqs to mind. Here, as with that great album, the tag of ‘cold brilliance’ often attached to this sort of music is challenged by moving evidence of the humans at the controls
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8.0
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The Times
When the aliens do make contact the one thing that we’ll all have in common will be Autechre
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8.0
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The Observer
Despite a continuing fondness for algebraic song titles ("Os Veix3", anyone?), you don't need a PhD to appreciate a glittery melody
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8.0
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Scotland on Sunday
Autechre records can be rewarding, but be warned: you only get out what you are prepared to put in
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8.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
The gleaming surfaces, exotic-sounding keyboard lines and haunting minimal feel bring to mind David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto
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8.0
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Tiny Mix Tapes
Its highlights are not, like the explorations on Draft and Untilted, daring pieces of architecture, but pieces whose soft edges and subtle, multilayered melodic contours feel human in a way that may evoke an eerie nostalgia in longtime fans
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8.0
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No Ripcord
Their most assured, confident release to date and though it may not take the place of fan-favourite, it certainly deserves to be considered as the best introduction to Autechre’s oeuvre
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7.5
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onethirtybpm
While this may not be the best or most inspiring release in Autechre’s catalogue, it’s certainly one of the easiest to just sit down to and enjoy
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7.2
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Pitchfork
Oversteps finds them working in a comparatively less rigid fashion, almost organic compared to something like Confield
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7.0
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music OMH
Oversteps is not music to fill the listener with a warm glow or a grin of pleasure, nor a simple compulsion to dance, no matter how "intelligently". Its pleasures are more complex, deep and hard-won than that
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7.0
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The Fly
‘Oversteps’ doesn’t offer anything massively new, but when you’re still sounding completely unique, why would you need to?
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6.0
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Uncut
The sequel to Quaristice contains fewer but more substantial sound paintings. Print edition only
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6.0
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The Irish Times
There’s still some grit amidst the wonderfully applied textures, making this an album with a fascinating tonal momentum
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6.0
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Q
Print edition only
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6.0
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Mojo
Print edition only
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