And now for something completely different…

March 12, 2006

There's not much going on with boys as of late. Untilted's been out for a few months now, garnering the usual dichotomy of ecstatic/confused reviews.

NME called it, "so listener-unfriendly that it's almost amusing," and Contact offers this nugget of incisive criticism:

[Untilted] would be appreciated in a half-empty, smoky room by the sort of bearded, socially deficient males who would nod their heads enthusiastically at the sound of a broken tractor (…) If you like your music challenging, rhythmically taxing, melodically lacking and generally unnerving, then check out Autechre's latest.

Yep. Well, I'm enjoying it.

That said, they're not currently on tour, and there's not another ATP scheduled for some time. Even alt.music.autechre is quiet. Autechre.nu disappeared a while back, but lo and behold, somebody's registered autechre.co.uk.

Too bad there's not much there yet. Just a few paragraphs of insight so far. The site's mission-statement states:

People often talk about music and most of those people are stupid. So here is the definitive look at the philosophy of one of musics pioneers (x 2 because there are two autechre people).

Accurate and insightful stuff. I look forward to hearing more. I do have to say I like this guy's cover-art better than the generic Designer's Republic stuff they went with the last couple of outings.