Confield
by Autechre

@YoungPunk Notice that you listen to both Aphex and now Autechre. I feel like you might love the hell out of Boards of Canada. Another act that came from Warp Records like Aphex and Autechre.

Very cool

Forgot how much I just love this record. If Tri Repetae was an exhibit of how robots live there lives and how in a lot of ways they will be like us. Confield shows an astronaut being experimented on and morphing into anything the astronaut wants to be. Anytime Autechre can make me envision a story, chances that record will get into my top 5 from this discography.

I feel like my head is exploding in the best possible way. Oh, but "Confield" is so much more than just aimless noise; it seems to function as some form of bizarre ambient music where a dark, mechanical atmosphere is conjured expertly from layers upon layers of glitch with a stream of dissonant chimes and echoes... I mean just listen to "Bine". Succeeds where "LP5" doesn't; probably their best work since landmark IDM record "Tri Repetae"

From JulianR 10/27/2017 03:47 | #200135

A very interesting listen when it doesn't get too acid

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Goshdarnit thats a awesome comment dividesbyzero. Its interesting hearing the whole idea of it being their "most uniquely human" album (I'm pretty sure I've heard similar things said before). I think I know what you mean, yet despite that I think what draws me to the album after so many listens is what I still perceive as this incredible detachment and focus on sound sculpting and rhythmic exploration without emotional baggage, at least compared other music. I guess it is very much open to interpretation.

Anyways, Confield, one of the best things ever.

Autechre have gone through a few distinct changes over the course of their career, or really just one, very gradual change. From their early Incunabula days as melodic technicians, Autechre have crafted some of the most intelligent and intensely mathematical electronic on the IDM scene, but the shape that their music takes has, with each new album, been slowly moving away from the comparatively logical constructs of Tri Repetae and Incunabula into even more dense and kaleidoscopic territory; Confield is where they hit the apex of this progression. Far more than a means for showing off the musicians' programming prowess and showcasing their knack for studio trickery, Confield manages to engender a unique kind of mental stimulation that, while being the product of something very technical, is hardly devoid of emotional content, nor is it the inaccessibly cold ball of cacophonous intricacies that it is so often accused of being. Quite to the contrary, Confield is in a way more accessible than any of Autechre's more straightforward early albums; if anything the album exhibits more unrestrained freedom than any of its predecessors. This, while initially jarring, results in their most uniquely "human" album to date, despite it's many complexities and its somewhat erratic composition, a composition which, while being the product of seemingly aleatoric rhythmic constructs, is really no more random and chaotic than, say, jazz improvisation. My initial selection for favorite Autechre album was the almost equally chaotic "Draft 7.30", which, for all of its rhythmic fuckery, was really little more than a (albeit brilliantly executed) return to a more Tri Repetae-esque means of production, perhaps a bit of an overcompensation for the unbridled risk-taking that occurred on the above masterpiece