LP5

For other uses, see LP5 (disambiguation).

LP5
Studio album by
Autechre
Released13 July 1998 (1998-07-13)
GenreIDM, experimental, ambient
Length76:16
LabelWarp
WARP66
ProducerAutechre
Autechre chronology
Cichlisuite
(1997) 		LP5
(1998) 		Peel Session
(1999)

The untitled fifth studio album by English electronic music duo Autechre, commonly known as LP5, was released on 13 July 1998 on Warp. No title was printed anywhere within the artwork, so it became known as LP5 in line with the later EP EP7; it has also been called Autechre, as well as Album, as listed on promotional copies.[1]

With the album, Autechre began abandoning the considerably warm and organic sounds of earlier albums like Amber in favor of a fine-tuned, technical style they had begun exploring on Chiastic Slide and the Cichlisuite EP, while also incorporating influences from electroacoustic music.

Production

The track "Drane2" is a response to Aphex Twin's "Bucephalus Bouncing Ball", which, according to Sean Booth, is an answer to Autechre's earlier track "Drane":

"yeah we did the track drane, which had that exponential speeding-up delay thing happening, and then rich did that bouncing ball track, and we answered it with drane2 which was the same delay trick but feeding percussion into it instead, as a kind of tease"[2]

Several technical facts about the album's production are known from an AMA conducted in 2013 on the electronic music site "We Are The Music Makers":[3] synths used on the album include the Nord Lead 1, Yamaha DX100, and Ensoniq ASR-10; the first half of "Vose In" was made using the Nord Lead's drum maps and its ending was programmed in SoundEdit 16; finally, the complex rhythms of "Under BOAC" were programmed in Logic Pro rather than in Max.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[5]
Pitchfork8.4/10[6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[7]

Greg Prato of AllMusic gave the album 4.5 out of 5 stars and said that "all the songs are cut from the same sonic cloth".[4] Pitchfork listed LP5 at number eight on its 2017 list of "The 50 Best IDM Albums of All Time", one of three Autechre albums to be included; reviewer Mark Richardson stated that the album effectively balances the accessibility of their earlier work with the more challenging material to come, and thus represents "a certain peak."[8]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Sean Booth and Rob Brown

No.TitleLength
1."Acroyear2"8:39
2."777"5:49
3."Rae"7:13
4."Melve"1:14
5."Vose In"5:21
6."Fold4, Wrap5"3:58
7."Under BOAC"6:22
8."Corc"5:50
9."Caliper Remote"1:40
10."Arch Carrier"6:49
11."Drane2" (9:38) (Untitled hidden track starts at 21:42)23:21
Total length:76:16

On US pressings, the hidden track is moved to its own 12th track, and the silence after "Drane2" is shortened by three minutes. The hidden track is not found on vinyl pressings. Additionally, some digital releases of the album rename Acroyear2 to AcroyearII.

Charts

Chart (1998) Peak
position
UK Albums (OCC)[9] 135
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[10] 17

References

  1. ^ "Autechre – LP5 (1998, Vinyl)". Discogs.
  2. ^ Booth, Sean (2 November 2013). "AAA – Ask Autechre Anything – Sean and Rob on WATMM! – Page 109". WATMM. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  3. ^ "Ask Autechre Anything (02-07/11/2013)". Google Docs. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  4. ^ a b Prato, Greg. "LP5 – Autechre". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 January 2010.
  5. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). "Autechre". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
  6. ^ Schreiber, Ryan. "Autechre: Autechre". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 4 April 2005. Retrieved 8 January 2010.
  7. ^ Sisario, Ben (2004). "Autechre". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 29. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  8. ^ Pitchfork staff (24 January 2017). "The 50 Best IDM Albums of All Time". Pitchfork. p. 5. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
  9. ^ "Chart Log UK: A – Azzido Da Bass". Zobbel.de. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
  10. ^ "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 23 August 2019.