Autechre : Gantz Graf

Avoid as you would a bald German

Aug 2, 2002
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Autechre records are purchased solely by bald men in expensive anoraks who would masturbate to a car alarm if it was re-mixed by a German. This impenetrable curtain of misanthropic noise - released with an accompanying three-track DVD that features a squabble of hopelessly pretentious video "interpretations" - is typical of the menopausal electro-manglers' dogged refusal to bow to convention and produce anything of interest to anyone not either a) bald or b) German. It bleeps. It skronks. It krrraaaanks. But mainly, it blows like a ruddy awful hurricane. Remember, kids; if it sounds like a festering hillock of tune-shy bum-wank, it's because it IS a festering hillock of tune-shy bum-wank. Avoid as you would a bald German.

Sarah Dempster

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muserock7997

May 13, 2008

NME, What are you talking aboutit may be noise,but its complex and and hard to makeand the video is complexer

bishely

Nov 7, 2008

Ha! Ha ha! Ha ha ha! Haaaa!The fact you didn't like the track was evident by the end of second sentence, so why did you bother going on? I'm not a huge fan of it myself, but can appreciate that art, whether you like it or not, is still art - not 'bum-wank'. Perhaps you should consider writing for the Metro instead?Remember kids: if it sounds like a festering hillock of tune-shy bum-wank, it's entirely possible that you're the kind of moron who can't cope with anything that hasn't been shat out by another sheep-like 'aren't-our-cheerful-singalongs-cool-in-an-ironic-but-fun-kinda-way' so-called-indie band.