Autechre - Amber

Originally released in 1994, Amber stands as Autechre’s second full-length album and is often hailed as their ambient opus. Long out of print on vinyl since 2001, this essential reissue brings back one of the duo’s most immersive and hypnotic works.

Across eleven tracks, Amber drifts between minimalist machine rhythms, isolationist atmospheres, and richly vivid soundscapes that blur the lines between electronica and ambient techno. Steering away from the sharper, post-hardcore dynamics of their debut Incunabula, this album finds Autechre embracing abstraction, crafting sound structures that feel crystalline, weightless, and endlessly immersive.

Widely regarded as one of their most crucial recordings, Amber captures Autechre at their most hypnotic — its gradients of sound dissolve and reappear like fleeting memories, creating an experience as elusive as it is transportive. Fans often place it alongside the works of Steve Reich and Manuel Göttsching, as well as Autechre’s Artificial Intelligence contemporaries, for its role in laying the foundation of future electronic music.

This reissue also includes a download of an original Autechre live set, previously only available in the band’s webstore, with packaging designed by longtime collaborators The Designers Republic.