Sign | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Autechre |
Cover: | autechresign.jpg |
Recorded: | 2018–2020[1] |
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Length: | 65:33 |
Label: | Warp |
Producer: | Rob Brown and Sean Booth |
Prev Title: | NTS Sessions 1–4 |
Prev Year: | 2018 |
Next Title: | Plus |
Next Year: | 2020 |
Sign (often stylized as SIGN) is the fourteenth studio album by British electronic music duo Autechre. It was announced by Warp Records on 2 September 2020 via their Twitter page, and was released on 16 October 2020.[2] [3] The album was broadcast for the first time on 8 October on the Autechre website.[4] Shortly after, it was made available as a digital download to those who pre-ordered. The cover and packaging artwork was created by The Designers Republic.[5]
Sign's companion album, Plus, was released without announcement twelve days later.
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.[6]
Sign was 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 12 reviews.