What's your favourite Aphex Twin tune?
Something Amis wrote about Joyce (about "Ulysses", really) is conjured up by considering "Xtal" vs. all that boring drillnbass stuff Aphex has churned out.
"Beautiful prose came so naturally to Joyce that he often indulged a perverse attraction to its opposite: to hideous prose, to mirror-cracking, clock-stopping prose."
Best Autechre Basscadet, Sound of Machines or a few select tracks from their first two albums. Then they got into "complexity". Yawn.
too late. none of the vocal skeptics here actually want to discuss autechre, they just want to repeat the same tired one liners and then get out. which is fair since they get overanalyzed enough elsewhere.
too late. none of the vocal skeptics here actually want to discuss autechre, they just want to repeat the same tired one liners and then get out. which is fair since they get overanalyzed enough elsewhere.
at risk of provoking (deserved) ridicule, I'd say I understand Autechre much better than anyone who's criticized them at length in writing. not that the ae lads are perfect or above criticism. the critiques are always really surface level, the same stuff I thought about them at 17. and if there's any artist that you can't rely on surface impressions for its them.
Me and Luka are the only sceptics as far as I'm aware so don't be shy