Zulu Records

^{AUTECHRE - Draft 7.30}
Autechre have changed little after seven albums. In a way, this is why they're so great. While Sean Booth and Rob Brown have gotten deeper into their chosen technologies, figuring out how to make even more truly fucked up sounds, they played their top cards early on: fronting strong and unique, then shifting all abstract and shit. Even when most remote, though, its always possible to hear Autechre's early IDM, electro and hip hop roots, no matter how granular and cut-up they become. Indeed, Draft 7.30 makes it easy to hear the foundations of the Autechre style, for a change, even as it builds inwardly to the far reaches of the aesthetic they've defined. In this sense, Draft 7.30 is kinda sadomasochistic, a test of self-imposed boundaries. The result is pure pleasure for us - and also for the sullen-looking young men who are responsible, we can only assume. Perhaps, as the cliché suggests, it's the quiet ones that are most kinky. But ask yourself, who is really excited here?

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