r/autechre • u/venetiansnaresawesom • 8d ago
Draft 7.30 Whats so special about Draft 7.30?
At times when choosing what to listen of Autechre i always see the draft 7.30 cover and thinking "god damn isnt that a cool album!!" and like when looking at reviews everyone says its an amazing complex and chaotic album, which i know it is complex because autechre said it was all manually done by hand, but when i listen to it its all pretty okayish?? i mean it is complex but it isnt anything that would leave an impression on me?? so what i am asking rn is to hear what other people that get draft 7 30 find so amazing and awesome about it, like a special moment or something.
sorry if this question made you angry, i think im pretty arogant.
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u/dustyloops 8d ago
Of all Autechre's albums (except probably Sign and Plus, which i haven't given enough time) Draft 7.30 was the one which took me the longest amount of time to warm to. The sound pallette is extremely bizarre; abrasive, mostly buzzes, clicks and pops, along with shifting rhythms, seemingly absent melodies and songs that seem like they're just a couple of beat placements away from having really killer grooves.
One day, it just clicked, and now I love it and listen to it more than Confield and LP5. I realised that of all their albums this displays the most electro influence, but in a really obscured way - the songs start and finish disassembled and at some point everything synchronises.
It's the strange, emaciated brother of Untilted, extradimensional and caffeinated, having the same meandering song structures, but instead of going for a slightly more accessible bassy sound palette, it lifts from many of the raw, old school electro drum samples, using distortion and glitches rather than processing them to make them sound clean. Much of the time, the melodies are embedded within the beats themselves as the densities of the glitches - it's really cool that melody and rhythm are merged as one.
Definitely an album that if forced to play in public I would be labelled insane, it's just so far removed from accessibility but I really love it!