SIGN

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SIGN is the fourteenth album by Autechre. It was originally released on October 16th, 2020 on Warp Records. It was announced on September 2nd, 2020. Prior to its release, on October 8th, SIGN was livestreamed via Autechre’s website in full, and made available for download shortly afterwards. Three weeks later, it would be followed up by their fifteenth album PLUS, which released on October 28th.

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Tracks

au14

• The title could means "14th autechre", corresponding to SIGN being the 14th album.

psin AM

• In the 15 December 2022 max demo, the synthesizer in channel 9 was called "psinAMbq.MC"., likely indicating that that module was the origin for the naming of the track.

Tracklist

#	Title	Length
1	M4 Lema	8:50
2	F7	5:57
3	si00	5:51
4	esc desc	4:56
5	au14	5:04
6	Metaz form8	6:00
7	sch.mefd 2	5:26
8	gr4	3:21
9	th red a	6:36
10	psin AM	6:20
11	r cazt	7:12
		1:05:32
12	n Cur [Japanese CD exclusive]	6:15
Total		1:11:47

Trivia

• One theory is that the catalogue numbers were chosen such that each digit adds up to 14 (3+2+9) to match SIGN being the 14th album. An interesting note is that PLUS's also adds up to 14 (3+3+8); which implies that both SIGN and PLUS are the 14th album, or at the very least seen as part of the "same release"
• In an interview with the New York Times, Rob mentioned that the title SIGN is "an initialization, but we don't want to tell anybody what it stands for." [1]

Links

• AE_STORE
• Apple Music
• Bandcamp
• Bleep
• Soundcloud
• Spotify

Credits

• Autechre (production)
• Rob Brown (writer)
• Sean Booth (writer)
• Noel Summerville (mastering engineer)
• The Designers Republic (design) [2] [3]