I have had this for a week now and it really does almost nothing for
me. If anyone has earned the benefit of the doubt from me, it is
Autechre, but I am getting pretty desperate for a reason to like this
album, or even an interesting detail to which I might focus my attention.
Is this record way over my head, or could it be that it really kind of
sucks? So little of it jumps out and grabs me in any way, so little of it
strikes me as inspired, that I am really quite driven to slag the hell
out of it right here and now (is this what I'm actually doing?) but every
fiber of my being insists: No! Autechre are *brilliant*! You can't do
that! You must be mistaken! You must just be below their level of musical
sophistication!
Well I am below Swervedriver's level of musical sophistication, too but
that doesn't make Ejector Seat Reservation anything else but a crap album.
Autechre win my tentative vote for second biggest disappointment of 1996.
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