LP5

For other uses, see LP5 (disambiguation).

LP5 is the fifth studio album by English electronic music duo Autechre^[1], commonly known as LP5, was released on 13 July 1998 on Warp. No title was printed anywhere within the artwork, so it became known as LP5; it has also been called Autechre, as well as Album, as listed on promotional copies.^[2]

LP5
Studio album by Autechre
Released	13 July 1998 (1998-07-13)
Genre	IDM experimental ambient
Length	76:16
Label	Warp
Producer	Autechre
Autechre chronology
Cichlisuite (1997) LP5 (1998) Peel Session (1999)

With the album, Autechre began abandoning the warm sounds of earlier albums like Amber in favor of a fine-tuned, technical style they had begun exploring on Chiastic Slide and the Cichlisuite EP, while also incorporating influences from electroacoustic music.

Production

The track "Drane2" is a response to Aphex Twin's "Bucephalus Bouncing Ball", which, according to Sean Booth, is an answer to Autechre's earlier track "Drane":

"yeah we did the track drane, which had that exponential speeding-up delay thing happening, and then rich did that bouncing ball track, and we answered it with drane2 which was the same delay trick but feeding percussion into it instead, as a kind of tease"^[3]

Several technical facts about the album's production are known from an AMA conducted in 2013 on the electronic music site "We Are The Music Makers":^[4] synths used on the album include the Nord Lead 1, Yamaha DX100, and Ensoniq ASR-10; the first half of "Vose In" was made using the Nord Lead's drum maps and its ending was programmed in SoundEdit 16; finally, the complex rhythms of "Under BOAC" were programmed in Logic Pro rather than in Max.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[6]
Pitchfork	8.4/10[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[8]

Greg Prato of AllMusic gave the album 4.5 out of 5 stars and said that "all the songs are cut from the same sonic cloth".^[5] Pitchfork listed LP5 at number eight on its 2017 list of "The 50 Best IDM Albums of All Time", one of three Autechre albums to be included; reviewer Mark Richardson stated that the album effectively balances the accessibility of their earlier work with the more challenging material to come, and thus represents "a certain peak."^[9]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Acroyear2"	8:39
2.	"777"	5:49
3.	"Rae"	7:13
4.	"Melve"	1:14
5.	"Vose In"	5:21
6.	"Fold4,Wrap5"	3:58
7.	"Under BOAC"	6:22
8.	"Corc"	5:50
9.	"Caliper Remote"	1:40
10.	"Arch Carrier"	6:49
11.	"Drane2" (9:38) (Untitled hidden track starts at 21:42)	23:21
Total length:		76:16

All tracks are written by Sean Booth and Rob Brown.

On US pressings, the hidden track is moved to its own 12th track, and the silence after "Drane2" is shortened by three minutes. The hidden track is not found on vinyl pressings. Additionally, some digital releases of the album rename Acroyear2 to AcroyearII.

Charts

Chart (1998)	Peak position
UK Albums (OCC)[10]	135
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[11]	17