Sign (Autechre album)

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Sign
Autechresign.jpg
Studio album by
Autechre
Released8 October 2020 (2020-10-08)
Recorded2018–2020 [1]
Genre
Length65:33
Label Warp
Producer Rob Brown and Sean Booth
Autechre chronology
NTS Sessions 1–4
(2018)		Sign
(2020)		 Plus
(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]

Contents

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]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 82/100 [7]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Clash 9/10 [9]
Exclaim! 8/10 [10]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [12]
musicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [13]
Pitchfork 8.1/10 [14]
Record Collector Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [15]
Uncut 8/10 [16]
Under the Radar 7/10 [17]

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. [7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Sean Booth and Rob Brown.

Sign track listing
No.TitleLength
1."M4 Lema"8:49
2."F7"5:56
3."si00"5:51
4."esc desc"4:55
5."au14"5:03
6."Metaz form8"6:00
7."sch.mefd 2"5:25
8."gr4"3:21
9."th red a"6:35
10."psin AM"6:20
11."r cazt"7:12
Total length:65:33
Japanese bonus track [18]
No.TitleLength
12."n Cur"6:14
Total length:71:47

Charts

Chart performance for Sign
Chart (2020)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [19] 10
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [20] 56
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [21] 51
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [22] 53
Scottish Albums (OCC) [23] 16
UK Albums (OCC) [24] 41

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  6. ↑ Marissa Cetin (29 October 2020). "Autechre surprise with another new album, PLUS". Resident Advisor . Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  7. 1 2 "SIGN by Autechre". Metacritic . Retrieved 19 October 2020.
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  12. ↑ Highlights a voracious creative appetite and their relationship's enduring strength. [Dec 2020, p.87]
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