Amber (Autechre album)
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| Studio album by Autechre | ||||
| Released | 7 November 1994 | |||
| Genre | Intelligent dance music | |||
| Length | 74:27 | |||
| Label | Warp | |||
| Producer | Autechre | |||
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| The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |  |
| Pitchfork | 7.9/10 |
| Select | (4/5) |
Amber is the second studio album by the British electronic music duo Autechre, released by Warp Records on 7 November 1994. Amber was Autechre's first album of new material as their previous work Incunabula was a compilation of older tracks.
Opposed to Autechre's first album Incunabula which was predominantly a compilation of older material and part of Warp Records' Artificial Intelligence series of albums,Amber was described by Rob Brown as "genuinely the first album we put out on Warp".
CMJ described the sound of Amber as "entirely electronic and entirely instrumental" outside a few vocal samples.Fact magazine described Amber as containing "some of Autechre's most ambient moments".Fact compared songs on the album to works of Brian Eno ("Nine" and "Yulquen"), describing them as " beatless, but powerful low-end means that they’re contemplative rather than ethereal". Fact also described songs such as "Montreal" and "Piezo" ("Silverside") as different styled pieces with "deep veins of techno and acid house".Select described the album as a "'90s update of electro's cut-'n'-paste rhythmics into the realms of the odd." and that it "made music by μ-Ziq or Aphex Twin seem almost conventional".
Amber was released by Warp Records on 7 November 1994. The album was released on compact disc, double vinyl, cassette and as a digital download.Amber was released on 24 January 1995 by TVT Records.Amber was re-released on vinyl by Warp on 11 November 2016.
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