Autechre: Quaristice (Warp) - LP originally released March 2008

Autechre totally hit the nail on the head when they said it'll take a while to get to grips with any new work of theirs. I'm still gleefully dissecting 2005's 'Untilted' in my own perverse way. So almost 21 months after the release of 'Quaristice', I can just about muster up some pretty ineffectual thoughts. Twenty efficient ideas spread over 73 minutes, it seems immediate and strangely accessible. And just when I thought I'd nailed the narrative, they decide to release alternative takes. The download-only 'Quaristice Versions' ever-so-subtly tweaks everything, whilst the 'Quaristice.Quadrange.ep.ae' takes a more extreme approach and jettisons the whole thing to some alternate weightless universe. Hopefully they wont release anything until 2020, if only to let me play catch up.