Autechre-y7

Only months after releasing Oversteps (2010, Warp), Autechre have chiseled the electrodecalogue Move of Ten out of the granite of their musical imaginations. y7, the second imperative on the slate, clearly states that "no part of the ear will be left unexplored by static, sinewave and subterranean kick." As with some of the tracks on Oversteps and Quaristice, pulsing broken techno rhythms snake through dense layers of seemingly stochastic sequencing and ascendent synth swells. On the whole, Move of Ten brings the direction of their two prior albums to a clearly defined point, all the better to limn the finishing touches on a fanatstic tryptich of futurist bricolage. This sort of phosphorescent verdancy is exactly what I hoped to hear after Oversteps and far sooner than I expected!