Oversteps

Oversteps
Studio album by Autechre
Released 22 February 2010 (download)
22 March 2010 (CD/LP)
Recorded 2008-2010
Genre Ambient, IDM, Electronic, Minimal Techno
Length 71:16
Label Warp
Producer Rob Brown and Sean Booth
Autechre chronology
Quaristice.Quadrange.ep.ae
(2008)
Oversteps
(2010)
Move of Ten (2010)

Oversteps is Autechre's tenth album, released on Warp Records. The album was made available for official download on bleep.com and the Japanese iTunes store on 22 February 2010; the CD and deluxe vinyl editions were released on 22 March 2010. Reaching #124, it was their highest charting album in the UK since Tri Repetae (1995).

Contents

Track listing

Oversteps
No. Title Length
1. "r ess"   5:13
2. "ilanders"   5:32
3. "known(1)"   4:43
4. "pt2ph8"   4:10
5. "qplay"   4:39
6. "see on see"   4:37
7. "Treale"   6:05
8. "os veix3"   4:38
9. "O=0"   4:53
10. "d-sho qub"   6:26
11. "st epreo"   4:08
12. "redfall"   3:49
13. "krYlon"   6:09
14. "Yuop"   6:22
Total length:
71:16
Japanese bonus track
No. Title Length
15. "Xektses sql"   3:01
Total length:
74:17

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
BBC Music (very positive)[2]
Drowned in Sound (9/10)[3]
NME (8/10)[4]
The Observer (positive)[5]
Pitchfork Media (7.2/10)[6]
The Skinny [7]
The Times [8]

Overall critical reception was generally positive. Many critics called Oversteps a "return to form" and compared it with early ambient albums like Amber, while also stating that it goes in a new direction, not returning to an old one. Connections are often drawn to Quaristice, but are also said to be experimenting more on the ambient side, with Allmusic concluding that "Autechre finds the beauty in technical rigor".[1]

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