Autechre - LP5

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 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.

Fair enough, I can see that for many this is not an easy listen. At the time it came out it was such a leap forward in style that it did leave some people behind, especially fans of the earlier work who enjoyed the more ambient textures. One thing is for sure, something definately came together on this album, gone are the open soundscapes of Amber, gone are the mechanical rhythms of Tri Repetae. Enter a new more organic sound, living rhythms that evolve and each sound is tangible, can almost be seen and felt. In places it's wickedly complex but never confused, the elements fuse to form beautiful sonic structures. Highlight for me is "Rae" - A masterpiece of rhythm, with a haunting melody full of emotion. Sheer Genius.0(--)0

This, for me, is the turning point in Ae's career; where the music started to be pushed further and further to its limit. The melodies are hidden a bit on this album, but after repeated listens, new things start to peek through; I've listened to it maybe 100 times and I still haven't heard the whole thing.

There are definitely some strange ones here; Drane2, for example, starts off with a collage of white noise and machine scrapings; it then breaks into what sounds like balls bouncing on the neck of a guitar repeatedly; later on, the rhythm develops itself, and it climaxes in an amazing collage of sound and melody ( after which it finishes at about 11 minutes and stays silent for about 9 minutes before busting into a hidden track). But songs like "Acroyear2", "Vose In" and "Rae" are definitely worth the price of admission; the melodies are a bit obscure, but once you find them, you'll never want to let them go.

This was a turning point for me, where i stopped listening to Autechre and started hearing them. Thats not to say stuff like Amber, Chiastic Slide et al is not worth checking out (they are!) but the experiemental seems to have married structure on this release. To this day Arch Carrier (track 10) is still the most intensely mind bogglingly amazing track. This is definiately for forward thinking techno, and every listen brings some new thought and emotion... but whats with the pure black casing, the artwork is always so good for AE releases...