I swear I can feel the roof of my mouth tingle during the ending minutes of "Nuane". It's a bit misleading to call Chiastic Slide a transitional album for Autechre, as if their sound all throughout their discography hasn't been a constantly-evolving beast of glitchy, textured IDM, but it's certainly the closest one they have. This does not, however, make it lesser in quality (for my part, it's slightly better than Amber but not quite as good as Tri Repetae). Rather, the album is an amorphous ocean, swelling and quelling with a balance of pulsing, layered IDM teetering on ambient techno and free-form electronic spasticness complete with explosive noise. The importance of this record in the Autechre catalog is that it is the first attempt at combining Autechre's two main styles, an idea that would later become perfected with LP5. Again, though, this is an unmissable album if you consider yourself an Autechre fan, and a very worthwhile listen if you're into heavily mechanized and glitchy IDM.
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