
Released as the opening track of Exai, Autechre's eleventh studio album on Warp Records (February–March 2013), 'FLeure' sits at the apex of the duo's Max/MSP-driven compositional period. Exai was described critically as electronic, experimental, IDM, abstract, and ambient, receiving a Metacritic score of 80 from 26 reviews. The album was built using what Booth and Brown called 'the system' — a large network of…
As the opening track of Exai, 'FLeure' functions as a threshold statement for one of the most ambitious double-albums in IDM history. The track exemplifies Autechre's synthesis of glitch, abstract electronica, and algorithmic composition in the post-2010 era, representing a genre lineage traceable…
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