quoted 11 lines You know what it's like when people say they like X
>You know what it's like when people say they like X
>and are interested in suggestions of something just
>like it. You suggest Y and Z because they're sorta
>like X, being all angular and pointy. Then,
>invariably, someone suggests S because it's a letter,
>too, and you just wanna smack 'em, cuz it's a letter,
>but it's nothing like X.
>
>like if i said i really liked Proem and someone then
>suggested Phonem, because Phonem is really only
>remotely like Proem when you get right down to it.
i could see this correlation being made, if only because the face value is
fairly similar, in terms of crunchy beats, flowing melodies, etc....
although obviously proem is much darker and a little more aggressive.
quoted 12 lines no one likes to talk about it but i just keep liking
>no one likes to talk about it but i just keep liking
>Confield more and more... is there anything else like
>it? and I don't mean just anything remotely like it,
>like earlier Autechre - even that isn't just like
>Confield.
>
>i'm not really looking for just yer average sound
>collage stuff like, er, i dunno, leafcutter john or
>fennesz or electric company or vladislav delay or
>monolake or whathaveyou. something visceral and
>immediate is what i crave, if in fact that's what i
>like about confield, which it may not be.
i wouldn't necessarily lump fennesz or vladislav delay into "average sound
collage stuff"... "endless summer" from fennesz was a pretty impressive
album in my opinion. but i digress.
quoted 2 lines but really - confield - is there anything else like
>but really - confield - is there anything else like
>it?
not especially. you might look into the autechre material immediately
preceding it if you're not already familiar with it, such as the 2nd peel
session EP and ep7, although i find ep7 to be much more conventional in
spots.
i've always thought that what made autechre special is their ability to move
forward without regarding trends or cliches, and they seem to have really
been able to stay more than a few steps ahead of the pack for most of their
career thus far.
then again, there's always that terrifying idea that, god forbid, this is a
highly original album with no immediately similar comparisons to be made.
;-)
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