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- Summary: One of the preeminent practitioners of the style of electronica labeled "Intelligent Dance Music," Autechre (consisting of Sean Booth and Rob Brown) returns with its first album in three years.
- Record Label: Warp
- Genre(s): Electronic
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MojoThe mind-boggling intricacies and moody, broody sound-sculpting on tracks like Pen Expers find Autechre zooming off, leaving their followers eating cosmic dust. [May 2001, p.110]
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Confield, Autechre's sixth full-length and its best release since 1997's Chiastic Slide, may also be its most ambitious.
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Confield promises elegant production, accessibility in moderation, and one of the most enveloping, thought-provoking listening experiences to come forth from leftfield this year.
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Confield presents one of the purest approximations of "machine music" we've heard yet. It's profoundly unsettling, but that's half its beauty; it's a sonic Frankenstein that refuses to let its plug be pulled.
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UrbAutechre are mulching electronic music, letting their code sweat and rot in the heat. In doing so, they set off a complex ecological process that is interesting to watch, if not always pretty to listen to. [#84, p.105]
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SpinA series of six-minute tracks that set some sort of richly (or ripely?) spastic texture-beats against ethereal drone-shimmers. [Aug 2001, p.136]
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BlenderThey've all but abandoned 4/4 grooves, discarded bass as an inefficient distraction and fractured their beats into splintery beatlets that detonate in flurries. [Jun/Jul 2001, p.105]
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CheradenineZ.Sep 30, 2002
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Mar 24, 2014
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TobiMNov 24, 2002The best Album yet, its full scale will only be recognized in 10 years. Fantastic
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VodkajihadApr 9, 2008Incredible. Pen Expers is the culmination of a promise made by electronic music at its inception.
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Jan 28, 2013
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May 4, 2013
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JohnM.Jan 22, 2002
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