Quaristice
| Quaristice | ||||
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| Studio album by Autechre | ||||
| Released |
29 January 2008 FLAC/MP3 3 March 2008 CD/LP | |||
| Genre | IDM | |||
| Length | 73:15 | |||
| Label | Warp Records | |||
| Producer | Rob Brown and Sean Booth | |||
| Autechre chronology | ||||
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Quaristice is Autechre's ninth album on Warp Records. It was made available for download via bleep.com in FLAC and MP3 format on 29 January 2008 and then received a physical release on 3 March 2008.[1]
Production
Autechre members Rob Brown and Sean Booth changed their approach for Quaristice, moving from a more deliberate studio process to a more spontaneous and "jam session" style of songwriting, approximately doubling the usual number of tracks per album to twenty.[2] Booth said in a March 2008 interview, "a lot of the album tracks are edited down jams, some of them hour long pieces we made in a day and then worked them down.... We’d have a fifteen minute jam, a ten or a seven minute and end up with a three or four minute track and we just kept them all."[2] The album is accompanied with track-by-track artwork from The Designers Republic. The last thirty seconds of "The Plc" contains a brief repeated sample of Run–D.M.C.'s 1985 track "Here We Go".[3]
Release
In an interview, Booth said "the actual product is the FLAC file – but I don't object to those who want to own something that they can hold."[4] The album was also released as a 2-CD set with alternate versions of 11 tracks on a second 68-minute CD. The casing is a photo-etched, steel case and the release was limited to 1000 copies.[5] The limited edition sold out within 12 hours of being announced.[6]
Critical reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 71/100[7] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [8] |
| The Guardian | [9] |
| The Independent | [10] |
| No Ripcord | (6/10)[11] |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.5/10)[12] |
| The Stranger | [13] |
| The Sunday Times | [14] |
Quaristice received somewhat positive reviews overall.
Track listing
| Quaristice | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 1. | "Altibzz" | 2:52 | ||||||||
| 2. | "The Plc" | 4:16 | ||||||||
| 3. | "IO" | 3:08 | ||||||||
| 4. | "plyPhon" | 2:33 | ||||||||
| 5. | "Perlence" | 3:25 | ||||||||
| 6. | "SonDEremawe" | 1:21 | ||||||||
| 7. | "Simmm" | 5:00 | ||||||||
| 8. | "paralel Suns" | 3:03 | ||||||||
| 9. | "Steels" | 2:56 | ||||||||
| 10. | "Tankakern" | 3:39 | ||||||||
| 11. | "rale" | 3:42 | ||||||||
| 12. | "Fol3" | 3:47 | ||||||||
| 13. | "fwzE" | 2:38 | ||||||||
| 14. | "90101-5l-l" | 3:11 | ||||||||
| 15. | "bnc Castl" | 2:52 | ||||||||
| 16. | "Theswere" | 2:12 | ||||||||
| 17. | "WNSN" | 4:56 | ||||||||
| 18. | "chenc9" | 4:57 | ||||||||
| 19. | "Notwo" | 5:34 | ||||||||
| 20. | "Outh9X" | 7:14 | ||||||||
Total length: |
73:15 | |||||||||
| Japanese bonus track | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 21. | "nu-Nr6d" | 3:51 | ||||||||
Total length: |
77:06 | |||||||||
Quaristice (Versions)
A second disc, entitled Quaristice (Versions), was included in the limited edition.
| Quaristice (Versions) | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 1. | "Altichyre" | 1:43 | ||||||||
| 2. | "The PlclCpC" | 9:18 | ||||||||
| 3. | "IO (mons)" | 7:52 | ||||||||
| 4. | "Phylopn" | 2:40 | ||||||||
| 5. | "Perlence range3" | 7:37 | ||||||||
| 6. | "SonDEre-ix" | 3:27 | ||||||||
| 7. | "Tankraken" | 5:28 | ||||||||
| 8. | "fol4" | 11:41 | ||||||||
| 9. | "90101-61-01" | 5:10 | ||||||||
| 10. | "chenc9-x" | 8:28 | ||||||||
| 11. | "nofour" | 4:24 | ||||||||
Total length: |
67:48 | |||||||||
Release history
| Country/Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalogue number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Worldwide (from Bleep) | 29 January 2008 | Warp Records | MP3 | WARPCDD333 |
| FLAC | WARPCDD333F | |||
| Japan | 27 February 2008 | Beat Records | CD | BRC-333 |
| Europe | 3 March 2008 | Warp Records | CD | WARPCD333 |
| 2×LP | WARPLP333 | |||
| Worldwide (from Warpmart) | 2×CD | WARPCD333X | ||
| North America | 4 March 2008 | CD | WARPCD333 | |
| 2×LP | WARPLP333 | |||
References
- ↑ Autechre goes for March release of new album 'Quaristice'
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Flanagan, Mark (19 March 2008). "Interview: Autechre Life Cycle". The Milk Factory. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
- ↑ "Autechre's The Plc sample of Run-DMC's Here We Go (Live at the Funhouse)".
- ↑ "Autechre - Quaristice : Exclusive Feature". Clash. 6 February 2008. Retrieved 11 March 2009.
- ↑ "Autechre - Quaristice". Autechre.ws. 30 January 2008. Retrieved 30 January 2008.
- ↑
- ↑ "Quaristice - Autechre". Metacritic. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
- ↑ Allmusic review
- ↑ The Guardian review
- ↑ The Independent review
- ↑ No Ripcord review
- ↑ Pitchfork Media review
- ↑ The Stranger review
- ↑ The Sunday Times review
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