Autechre:
L-Event:
Warp records:
Out Now:
★★★½
The opening track on this 4-track mini-album-cum-EP reminds me of Jones' wild scream-techno track on the genius hipster-hating comedy Nathan Barley. It's the one where he tries to calm down Claire with a special song and proceeds to unleash a melange of thunderous beats, sputtering glitch and the immortal line, 'Where's the ice-cream? Where's the ice-cream? WAAAHHH!'.
Without the hollering and shouting, 'tac Lacora' is a similar exercise, a relentless trinket-box of squeaks, bleeps and melodic malfunctions that rejoice in being completely unfathomable but largely engaging. And the same goes for the other tracks - 'M39 Diffain' is a stop-start cacophony centred around menacing synths that sound like a warehouse full of faulty steam engines being powered by Daleks and, um, so are both 'Osla for N' and 'Newbound'. All of which serves as a reminder of what the recent double-album 'Exai' sounded like - unsettling, fidgety, random and intrinsically untouchable.
L-Event:
Warp records:
Out Now:
★★★½
Without the hollering and shouting, 'tac Lacora' is a similar exercise, a relentless trinket-box of squeaks, bleeps and melodic malfunctions that rejoice in being completely unfathomable but largely engaging. And the same goes for the other tracks - 'M39 Diffain' is a stop-start cacophony centred around menacing synths that sound like a warehouse full of faulty steam engines being powered by Daleks and, um, so are both 'Osla for N' and 'Newbound'. All of which serves as a reminder of what the recent double-album 'Exai' sounded like - unsettling, fidgety, random and intrinsically untouchable.