''elseq 1–5'' is the twelfth
studio album
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by British
electronic music duo
Autechre, released by
Warp Records on 19 May 2016. The album consists of five segments, each roughly 50 minutes in length. All five were made available for individual or group purchase as a
digital download only, making it Autechre's first album without a physical release.
Composition and production
As with their previous album ''
Exai
''Exai'' is the eleventh album by electronic music duo Autechre, released on Warp Records. The double album was released in digital form on 7 February 2013, with double CD and quadruple vinyl versions released on 5 March 2013. At the time of its ...
'',
the album was composed using custom-made
Max/MSP software patches. In an interview with ''
Resident Advisor
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'', Brown explained that he and Booth had been working on tracks by sending them back and forth to each other for "quite a bit", and was not sure whether the project consisted as a single album or a collection of albums or
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Release
The first track on the album, "feed1", was given a preview broadcast by
BBC Radio 6
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on 13 May 2016. A second track, "c16 deep tread", was played on
Alaskan student radio station
KSUA
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on 18 May 2016, the track being later released for streaming on Warp Records'
SoundCloud page. The album was released for purchase on the duo's webstore the following day. The album consists of five distinct parts, each with its own album and individual track artwork designed by
The Designers Republic.
Warp Records stated that there are no plans to release the album on a physical medium, making the album Autechre's first digital-only studio album release.
Reception
The album received generally favorable reviews from critics. ''
Pitchfork'' rated volumes 1–5 of the album individually, with scores of 7.0, 6.6, 6.9, 7.1, and 6.8 on a ten-point scale, calling the album "an advancement of the duo's recent live sets, offering a similar ratio of rhythm to noise and order to chaos, but a richer palette of sounds."
''Resident Advisor'' called it "among the most uncompromising, impressive and enjoyable collections released by Rob Brown and Sean Booth." In a mostly positive review,
AllMusic noted the length and
experimental nature of the material, concluding that "those new to Autechre might be best off starting with their earlier material, and working their way up to this gradually."
Accolades
Track listing
References
External links
*
elseq 1–5' on Autechre Store
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2016 albums
Autechre albums
Warp (record label) albums
Albums with cover art by The Designers Republic