Was reading
Gary Indiana's review of Bary Miles' Burroughs biography last night and at one point he says,
"Burroughs oversaw the finished products, but when the chance occurred to improve them he decided he was comfortable with the idea of variants, viewing his overall production as a canon unto itself."
Think that's how I feel about a lot of the artists I really get into. There's something that keeps pulling me in, I can explore the material almost indefinitely and it rewards the close attention. I could sense it at work when I read all those Burroughs books last year. What at first seemed like subtle variations - em dashes vs. ellipses, first vs. third person narration, the colour palette - really started to come to the fore and shape the experience.
The same goes for Autechre. The more I listen, the more I get out of it.