Plus (Autechre album) explained

Plus
Type:studio
Artist:Autechre
Cover:Autechreplus.jpg
Recorded:2018–2020[1]
Genre:
  • IDM
    • ambient
Length:63:53
Label:Warp
Producer:Rob Brown and Sean Booth
Prev Title:Sign
Prev Year:2020

Plus (often stylized as PLUS) is the fifteenth full-length studio album by British electronic music duo Autechre. It was released digitally, without any prior announcement, on 28 October 2020, twelve days after the release of Sign, the band's preceding album.[2] Plus was released on physical formats on 20 November 2020. The cover and packaging artwork was created by The Designers Republic, and pairs with the artwork for Sign.

Though released by Warp as an album, Sean Booth has said that Plus should really be an EP, because like many other Autechre EPs, it is composed primarily of tracks that didn’t quite fit onto its companion full-length album.[3]

Sign and Plus were both teased prior to release in a series of Autechre live mix sessions that aired on streaming service Mixlr during the COVID-19 pandemic.[4]

Critical reception

Like its companion album Sign, Plus has been met with critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 82, based on 5 reviews.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Frere-Jones . Sasha . Sasha Frere-Jones . Autechre + Sign . S/FJ . . 29 December 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201229213134/https://substack.sashafrerejones.com/p/autechre-sign . 29 December 2020 . . English . live.
  2. Web site: Autechre Drop Surprise Album PLUS: Stream. Wren Graves. Consequence of Sound. 2020-10-28. 2020-10-29.
  3. Autechre - Full Twitch AMA [with Sean Booth] ]. 1042s . 5 June 2022 . 23 July 2023.
  4. Web site: Autechre surprise with another new album, PLUS. Marissa Cetin. Resident Advisor. 2020-10-29. 2020-10-29.