Autechre
Quaristice

Something felt sketchy about Quaristice, Autechre’s most recent album. Literally, much of the album’s 20 tracks—shorter than the usual fare for duo Se...

Aging can dampen the creative spirit of even the most imaginative artists and performers. Nothing says ‘creative vacuum’ like a standup comic doing ba...

If there is one word oft used to describe Autechre it would be "difficult." Not that it's really any revelation to point it out at this point, but a n...

They may try arguing it’s pop music, but give Quaristice, the ninth studio album from Autechre’s Sean Booth and Rob Brown, a listen and you’ll find no...

There was a time in the late 1990s when Autechre embodied one way of thinking about music's future. Producers exploring the infinite possibilities of...

Not counting their previous incarnations, Sean Booth and Rob Brown have operated as the highly influential Autechre since 1993. Their first two works,...

Autechre is a spiky and challenging word - perhaps in this case you really should judge something by its name. It's tempting to think of it as a mashu...

"Quaristice" plays out like bits and pieces of a puzzle that never quite fit together, which isn't particularly unusual for this experimental techno d...

Rob Brown and Sean Booth love to customise their electronic instruments and computer programs so they can escape predictability, dementing the sounds ...

Music is, at its root, a social construct. Historically ? which is to say, before the recorded medium ? the purpose of music was to enliven social g...