so, the new autechre record is kind of messy at points, but i'm still chewing over whether it's enjoyable or not. i've tended to react against accusations that these guys are totally pretentious hacks for the reason that they actually have tended to be compositionally interesting in both conventional and unconventional ways for quite a long time; the accusations against them have simply been demonstrably false, over and over.

but, on this record, they commit a lot of the errors they've avoided in the past - and right when people have apparently started letting up on the criticism of them for it.

*shrug*

in the end, what matters is how enjoyable it is and, like i say, i'm still chewing on it.