There are only a select handful of electronic music artists held in the same calibre as Autechre. Since the early '90s, Rob Brown and Sean Booth have been contorting, shifting and mangling sound to wonderful, cacophonous effect. Over the years, their sound has delved further into abstraction, to the point where their eager fanbase has come to expect nothing less.
Enter SIGN — Autechre's most recent album, preceding PLUS by only two weeks. SIGN marked a definite return to the melodic tendencies and the more structured arrangements of their earliest material. Now, on PLUS, Autechre look boldly again to the future.
It must be said that none of the material on PLUS is as labyrinthine as in the most extreme moments held in any of the 8 hours of NTS Sessions 1-4, where the duo seemed to luxuriate in the inaccessibility of their own music. To the most ardent of Autechre's audience, this may come as a disappointment, but for the rest, it is a welcome refinement.
| A1 | DekDre Scap B |
| A2 | 7FM ic |
| A3 | marhide |
| B1 | ecol4 |
| C1 | lux 106 mod |
| C2 | X4 |
| D1 | ii.pre esc |
| D2 | esle 0 |
| D3 | TM1 open |
