Rob Brown and Sean Booth’s output over the last 20-plus years has been a constant battle of the wills between man and machine. Autechre straddle the line between the organic and the mechanical, a constant question of which element is in control of the other. The group’s latest album, Oversteps makes the case for Autechre as humans working from inside a machine, giving faint signals of life through twisted steel and input cables. Spending an hour alone with this album is thoroughly engaging—a guessing game of where a catchy trip-hop bass-line might end up after the duo process it through the millions of knob twisting whirligigs and black market analog, low-end destroyers. Read full reviews at inyourspeakers.com
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