Sonic perfection, nothing less. This is most probably the best Autechre album in terms of balance - there's enough "musicality" to counteract the complexity of some of the rhythms and sounds. It's more than a decade old now but still sounds very fresh. The sound design across the album is brilliant, from the first few notes and sharp rhythms of Acroyear2 to the warm ambience of Drane2

Whack the speed up to 45 RPM and you've got another killer album as well as the original at 33.

I just got this on vinyl today. I've had the album for years before now, but only on cd. When I put it on today for the first time, I was sucked into another world altogether. The fact that the brain can make literally no visual connections to this sound just teleports the mind to a place beyond logical geometry and physics... anther dimension completely... Not even the cover of Draft7.30 can match up to the visuals in my head. The blankness of the cover is literally a canvas for your mind to paint beautiful visuals... woah!

LP5 is basically, to me, an Autechre Pop Album. Autechre display commercial sensibility on this release by their choice of song structures. I think that LP5 is home to some of the best production these guys have done, and also some finer melody work. Although i prefer Autechre in some other modes (Envane, Untilted, Amber), LP5 is definitely the one that converted me. Great starting place for beginners

I believe at this point in Autechre's career they were having trouble deciding where they wanted to go with their music. Would they continue to go on with the noisey, machine beats.. or would they go back to their roots and make more ambient driven music. Well obviously they chose the macchine beats later one, but this album strikes me as confusion with them. They seemed to work with what they did on Chiastic Slide, but at the same time, there was no advancement in the madness (which becomes more and more complex with each album after this).

This album should be known as their fork in the road with one sign saying "ambient" and the other one saying "noise"

That's my favorite album of Autechre,it has interesting melodies and the percussion sounds are amazing.It's a reference for a lot of the IDM that we can hear actually and shurely it is on the genre classics. It is the culmination of his previous works that has good melodies, but percussions wasn't sofisticated enough, however, and personally, i lost interest in them after LP5, since i feel that they give more importance to experimentation than music feeling or sensibility.
Anyways i can understand that people like his latest works (even i have some of them), is just that i'm a melody lover.

A pretty damn good CD. At this point in Autechre's career they were becoming more and more experimental and less ambient. As hard as it was to follow up an album like Chiastic Slide, Autechre did it well. Most of these songs are pretty easy to listen and get into. Not nearly as difficult as later albums. This album also contains the masterpiece track called Rae. Awesome stuff. If you dig this release, then you should check out its sister-autechre album, EP7

With "LP5" Autechre started to experiment, but they weren't very good at it back then. I've got the same problem with their "ep7". Ok, there are some nice and interesting songs, but the rest is powerless. Most of the songs on these two albums fail to create the intensively mind-altering atmosphere of their later works(exceptions e.g.: "caliper remote" on "LP5" or the hidden track on "ep7").

Fazit: Their two weakest records. But they were both very neccessary, because Ae was still practicing and training for "confield", "draft 7.30" and "untilted" at that time, hehe.

For someone who has never heard such music, Autechre's LP5 sounds somewhat cacophonous from the first couple of plays, but I found my ears tuning into the subtle rhythms, harmonies, and melodies (yes, they do exist!) the different tracks provide. For those of you who are more used to traditional structures in music, stick to "Rae," "Corc," and "Arch Carrier." However, I was very much drawn in by "Fold4,Wrap5" which sounds as if the time measures melt into each other, making it hard to determine whether the music is going faster or slower (very trippy). After a few plays, I found that I also liked "Acroyear2" with its weird progression of percussive sounds adding up to complex harmonies and melodies. Well, enjoy!

For me this album has the more straightforward melodic elements of Tri Repetae and the mangled beats and shards of sound they went on to produce on Confield and Draft 7.30. Definitely my favourite Ae record and possibly the only one I enjoy listening to all the way through. Can't recommend it highly enough!

Don't know where people get comments like "The best electronic album ever made" for this album, it’s far from it. The synth-lines are elementary at best and the beats are overly erratic. If I wanted a Squarepusher album guess what I’d go out and buy. So mixing two bad elements do not make the best album ever. I will admit there are some good points to this album. Rae, Vose In, Fold4,Wrap5, and Drane2 all have good structure. But where did Autechre go? Listen to Gescom’s This and That 12”s on the SKAM record label (Which includes excellent remixes by Autechre around the same time they recorded LP5) and see the evolution from great artists to what they are now, terrible wannabes.