| Chiastic Slide | ||||
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| Released | 17 February 1997 | |||
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| Length | 69:48 | |||
| Label | Warp | |||
| Producer | Autechre | |||
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Chiastic Slide is the fourthstudio album by the Britishelectronic music groupAutechre, released 17 February 1997 byWarp Records. The album saw the duo continue to move further away from theambient techno sound of their early releases, employing harsher,glitchier beats. Though not initially met with the same critical acclaim asTri Repetae orLP5,Chiastic Slide was eventually recognized by critics as an innovative and "enormously influential" album.[1]
Chiastic Slide was released on 17 February 1997. It did not receive a release in theUnited States until Warp Records began distributing its own releases there in 2001. Autechre referenced the fourth track, "Cichli", in the name of their subsequentEPCichlisuite (1997). The sleeve was designed bySheffield-based design agencyThe Designers Republic. On 19 November 2021,Chiastic Slide was re-released by Warp on vinyl,[2] alongside their next albumLP5.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| Muzik | 5/10[4] |
| Rolling Stone | [5] |
Allmusic critic John Bush pannedChiastic Slide as being an underwhelming follow-up to 1995'sTri Repetae, saying it was too repetitive and lacked ideas.[3] Tim Barr inTechno: the Rough Guide calledChiastic Slide "The aural equivalent of being at the bottom of the sea."[6] He went on to say the album was "Dark, claustrophobic... yet full of strange beauty".[6]
A 2017FACT Magazine retrospective describedChiastic Slide as "an enduring classic" that marks "the axis point around which all of Autechre's work revolves," representing a "break from contemporaneous orthodoxy" in electronic music and sound composition.[1] In an interview withPopular 1 Magazine, guitaristKavus Torabi ofCardiacs namedChiastic Slide as one of his favourite albums.[7]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Cipater" | 8:56 |
| 2. | "Rettic AC" | 2:08 |
| 3. | "Tewe" | 6:56 |
| 4. | "Cichli" | 8:52 |
| 5. | "Hub" | 7:35 |
| 6. | "Calbruc" | 3:51 |
| 7. | "Recury" | 9:44 |
| 8. | "Pule" | 8:33 |
| 9. | "Nuane" | 13:13 |
| Total length: | 69:48 | |
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