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oh dear...... |
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i cant believe anyone here actually visited pitchfork... fucking gonzo journalists |
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LOL it should be 11/10 its such a work of genious, all fans will grow to love it |
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while you're at it check their Aphex Twin - "7.7 Mixes For Cash" review. ;) |
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Well, that's Pitchfork, what did you expect ? |
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"ultimately uninspiring music" what does he kno? |
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well it certainly isnt their best album.. I dont think it's a 6.2 though |
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shit, maybe he's right. Maybe I've been fooled into believing autechre were great, when in reality they are washed out? nah... autechre are the kings of IDM |
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Most hilarious is what he does to millionaire simp Trent Reznor. Paid absurd amounts in an attempt to remix Nine Inch Nails and soup up his stuff with that Aphex action, James leaves the odious source tapes unheard on "The Beauty of Being Numb Section B", opting for something equally obnoxious. Meandering on the keyboards for the first half of the song, he then decides to blow through a straw uninterestedly and cut up some wide-mouthed yawns for the remainder. Not exactly a great track, but apropos for the wretched artist in question. "At the Heart of It All" is similarly lethargic and half-assed, sounding like he slowed "Ventolin" down to 16 RPM and then poured on some slowly heaving, molasses-thick brass. |
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oops above is the pitfork review of afx 26 remixes |
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I even think that it's a quite good review considering it's from Pitchfork... No insult, no xenophobic comment, a bit of objectivity... |
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yeah... have anyone of you read the review from 'royal astronomy'? unbelievable how they slag that off |
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°_° am i dreaming or does he belive afx did the first part of the beauty of being numb...(?) |
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he then decides to blow through a straw uninterestedly and cut up some wide-mouthed yawns for the remainder. that is from the original nine inch nails song.. that's trent reznor doing that |
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"This album is boring as shit." Ha ! |
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I don't think shit is boring... |
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the Draft review is written by the same reviewer that gave DYKS? a 4.8. |
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Seems fair to me. |
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sometimes I wish people would review albums soley on the music. forget about the cultural importance, and where it fits in with the scene and where it is evolving to. just lie back and let the beats of Xylin Room pummel into your brain. Im not talking about the Draft review or Pitchfork, just in general |
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But surely everyone agrees that early Autechre is better than later? No...? |
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thats true |
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It's mostly different. And who likes what best depends on tastes. I can't tell you what I like best. If you put on Draft, Gantz of Confield in your record player right after incunabula you can hardly imagine it's the same 2 persons who made this. |
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Yeah agreed, but IMHO it's a strange human indeed who prefers clanking to beauty! ;-) |
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yes we like order not chaos |
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Goz Quarter (or is it 902 Quarter?) :-) rocks my world... |
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:) |
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now, now... one mustn't be too critical of pitchfork... they are one of the most viable critical sources out there... and although they've fucked up a lot of warp reviews lately, this one included, in a lot of cases i can understand how they give out the ratings they do... i know that many people here would've given Draft a much lower score than Leone gave it... i have to say though, Leone is quickly becoming one of my least favourite reviewers on the site... she, and a lot of the "rock" critics, have this ridiculous double standard where they expect particular electronic artists to reinvent the fucking wheel every time around, while they think it's cool that the vast majority of rock bands have done anything new in years... i don't trust their electronic reviews unless they're in the hands of Mark Martelli, or Mark Richardson... and Andy Beta's okay... |
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I do believe Pitchfork gave confield an 8.8 though, that's good... anyways, my only beef with reviews is that it's only the reviewers opinions, yet they state them as if it's the way things are... for instance, he said Draft 7.30 is uninspiring music or something... to him maybe, to me it sounds great and all that... I feel I'm open with my opinions about music here, but I always try to make it clear that it's just my opinion... I hate that about music reviews, how they seem to think their own opinion is the one that matters... |
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Leone clearly misses the point of recent autechre... i can't understand why she was assigned it in the first place... the way she talks about Confield... i really pity her lack of perception |
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its too soon to review an album look at the way confield changed in most of people´s minds after 6 months |
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reviews should be forbidden till 6 moths after the release |
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But surely all reviews are opinions, non? They don't need to write "but that's just my opinion" all the time, I kind of take that as read! :-) |
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well said merg, some people take things too personal, its her opinion, shes not attacking your opinion funkmaster |
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i prefer new AE. |
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joyrex (from watmm.com) says he thinks autechre post-confield are boring |
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i would include Confield in 'new AE' |
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I think the complete opposite. I think they've really shown who they are and the artistry they possess w/ their newer work.. anyone could have pulled off their work previous to the confield era |
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well thats not what i think, this is joyrex, dont you understand? i think his views on this hold a lot more water than yours |
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why do you really care what Joyrex thinks... are you incapable of independent thought? Old AE is not all that amazing (some of it). Incunabula as is really cheesey, for example. |
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why do joyrex's views 'hold a lot more water'? ?!?!?!?!? |
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well joyrex knows best about this sort of thing really |
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he's known IDM for much longer than any of us lot |
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huh... you're really joyrex right? |
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um... so he's been listening to it for longer. makes his opinion more valid. makes him an intelligent person. means he knows what he's talking about.... try thinking for yourself. |
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do you even know who joyrex is? |
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yes I know who Joyrex is.... for fucks sake you sound like some awe-consumed teenage girl at a n'sync concert or something. |
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im telling my mommy |
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Interesting that she only got as far as surripere. Didn't give it much of a chance. I mean it's not obvious music. You can never "get" autechre by listening to it once and concentrating. You have to listen ten times without paying attention, then the eleventh time or twentieth time maybe you look at a coffee cup with a weird colorful pattern of cats holding umbrellas and that is the dust-seed around which the track's logic crystallizes. And then it's so beautiful it takes your breath away. I think I got some more of draft 7.30 this morning. Not all of it mind you. There will be many other mornings with other coffee cups. |
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