Track Listing

1. VI Scose Poise
2. Cfern
3. Pen Expers
4. Sim Gishel
5. Parhelic Triangle
6. Bine
7. Eidetic Casein
8. Uviol
9. Lentic Catachresis

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #284758 in Music
• Released on: 2001-04-30
• Number of discs: 2

Amazon.co.uk Review
Confield is the sixth album from Warp duo Autechre. It takes a step sideways from their usual techno with the contents closer to the fusion of shattered synthetic elements--it has the organic melodic constructs that dominated their early work rather than the robotic clangs and clinks, which defined much of LP5. As such, while the opening "VI Scose Poise" prevents delicate orchestration from straying into orbit by way of sheer percussive filaments, "Pen Expers" is obtuse in its contrast--the soundtrack for a 23rd-century retro b-boy, making shapes on a lino of titanium. And so it goes on, Brown and Booth unrelenting in their desire to twist something beautiful from shattered arrangements--non-noises and static colliding in the ether to form rich melodies or subtle changes in beat dynamics before the CD skips and drag these elements back into crunching electronics. Emotional yet hard to handle, lush while still abrasive--an album of contrasts which is certain to satisfy Ae veterans as well as those new to the sound. --Kingsley Marshall

CD Description
Long-awaited sixth album from one of the most revered groups in modern electronica. Autechre have played an integral part in the history of the Warp label. Artists such as Radiohead have cited them as an infuence.

Customer Reviews

The High Point of Western Culture
Let's not get pretentious, let's not talk about micro-whatever and the hidden complexities - ignore all that, just know that this album is, perhaps, one of the greatest ever released.

Confield represents the most varied, while still cohesive, collection of tracks that Autechre have put out. I'll admit that, like a lot of the best music, it takes a while to get in to but it's certainly worth it. From the exquisitely minimalist opener, VI Scoise Poise, with its ball-bearing beats and soft synth strains to the progressively more frantic closer, Lentic Catachresis, this record is amazing.

Admittedly, it's not as overtly tuneful as their previous albums (maybe EP7 excepted) but there is nothing more beautiful than hearing the distorted synth sounds slowly break through on Pen Expers or the bell-like sounds on Parhelic Triangle gradually coalesce into a recognisable melody.

Another thing, this album sounds fantastic production-wise - pristine yet still rough where it needs to be, beautiful synths and satisfying beats (at least, where those percussive sounds can actually be called beats).

I'm treading well-worn ground when I say that this isn't the best place to start if you want to get into Autechre but, hell, it's a great place to finish.

Oh my.
It's a commonly stated fact that after a fairly lengthy period of absorbing and digesting Autechre's music you will just "get it", and it is absolutely true.

I've been dipping in and out of their albums for a while now, and it is here on arguably their most harsh, cold and difficult album that i have found that so called Autechre nirvana.

The tracks are long and at first repetetive and noisy, but unlike any other artist out there once you understand the structure of the sounds you're hearing you will revel in the length of the tracks and the sustained pleasure you get from feeling the buried melodies and rythms. At first you won't believe that 2 men can put together this kind of fabled new angle of musicianship that manipulates your mind in such ways, and you'll believe people like me are hearing what we want to hear and don't know what we're talking about, but give it a chance.

There is nothing in the music world that compares to the sense of elation that washes over you as you suddenly grasp each and every thread of this seemingly 'white' noise. It can literally take your breath away and make you gasp on the spot. You'll believe the mind, and Autechre, are wonderful things.

when music at last found a new way of expressing feelings
dont let yourself guide by your first listen... this is a new way of comunication and it needs to be learnt before rating it.
i am a big autechre fan... so you may think o well as he is a fan he wont say anything bad about it... ok you are right... but this album is just incredible... not easy listening thats true... but give it a try... after a few weeks it will come one of your favourites, this happened to me, i never thought any album will beat chiastic slide or lp5 but this one does...much more radical than ep7... even. music will never stop progressing if there are people like autechre