Untilted

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studio album
First released:
Apr 9 2005

Overview Edit

Untilted is Autechre's eighth album. Warp Records released the album in Europe on 18 April 2005 and in North America on 19 April 2005, while Beat Records released it in Japan on 9 April 2005. The album charted at #199 in the UK.

A phony version of the album was leaked on file sharing networks simultaneously to the actual album's promotional leak. It became so widespread that Sean Booth commented in an interview "The more fakes the merrier, we’ve released fakes ourselves, but not this time."

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Record label:
Catalog number:
BRC-122
Release dates:
  • Apr 18 2005 in United Kingdom
  • Apr 19 2005 in United States

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5 stars Who can number the grains of sound by the seashore?
"Untilted" is another fine installment in the Autechre canon.

While their music has been called chaotic by detractors, any electronic musician who has attempted to emulate Autechre's unique sound will tell you that their programming is fiendishly complex and very, very precise. Randomly programming beats into a drum machine will no more get you Autechre's sound than dribbling paint on canvas will get you a Jackson Pollock painting.

This stuff obviously isn't easy listening, but it isn't really…
Written by P. Gunderson
3 stars Good (as always), but somewhat underwhelming
I love and bow down to Autechre's brilliance as much as the next guy, but this album is subpar to their previous efforts. I can't criticize the direction they go in, because they are on a different plane, but I can say that I don't get anywhere near as much out of this record as practically anything else by them.

I miss the melodies of Tri Repatae and the layers from Amber,... the driving rhythmic sliding of the intense drum work of LP 5 and EP 7. Every album of their's has had an intensity and…
Written by Etc "et cetera"

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Untilted 9 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Beat Records
catalog number: BRC-122
release dates: Apr 9 2005 in Japan
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Untilted 8 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Warp Records
catalog number: BRC-122
release dates: Apr 19 2005
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