Oversteps
Warp mainstays and techno pioneers pivot slightly with an album of dark ambience and intriguing textures.
If you ran a find/replace on Autechre’s polarizing IDM entry Confield, swapping out its skittering, paranoid beats for crystalline stabs of melody, you’d end up with something like the new Oversteps. The Sheffield duo can still leave listeners feeling alienated and alone amid washes of unplaceable sound—and song…
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Having aggressively tested the limits of loop-based electronic music with the diamond-perfect vignettes of 2008's Quaristice, Oversteps finds Autechre revisiting more melodic compositional methods.
Autechre’s albums are like jigsaw puzzles – very, very different jigsaw puzzles. The British duo’s first few albums were postmodern representations of idyllic landscapes, built from tangible pieces and colours, occasionally peaceful even if they never cohered into anything that made any real sense. But from the mid-'90s on, a bomb went off in their