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- Summary: The English electronic duo releases its ninth album, which was also released as a download earlier this year.
- Record Label: Warp
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Positive: 15 out of 22
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Mixed: 6 out of 22
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Negative: 1 out of 22
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After many detailed listens, the record feels like their strongest yet, a bold statement considering the importance of their previous works.
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FilterThe album is a suprisingly wonderful effort--perhaps even the duo's best in a decade. [Winter 2008, p.96]
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Autechre albums have been famously challenging in the past, but Quaristice is an easier way in, and impresses with its structure, its continued innovation in texture and in the way every sound remains vital, even in the course of a seventy minute album.
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There’s a more tangible sense of calm on Quaristice (Warp), the ninth full-length release by Sean Booth and Rob Brown, electronic programmers who record together as Autechre. But it flickers and fluctuates, often dissolving out of frame.
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At times it feels like a lot is going on, others not so much. The pieces are all there, but it just doesn't add up to more than the sum of its parts.
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Get past glitchy irritants like 'SonDEremawe' and an artful payoff of cerebral, booty-shaking decadence awaits on their ninth album.
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Q MagazineWhile the maverick spirit that drives this pair is admirable, it doesn't make the end result any more enjoyable. [Apr 2008, p.102]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 10
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Mixed: 2 out of 10
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Negative: 1 out of 10
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JohnMar 11, 2008varied... requires more than just a few listens to really appreciate.
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AndreD.Mar 10, 2008
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BobbyK.Mar 10, 2008
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EricC.May 5, 2008
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AlexanderXMar 12, 2008
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LiamS.Mar 17, 2008if it wasn't obvious enough on Untilted that they'd run out of ideas it sure is now.
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StevenH.Mar 13, 2008
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