L-event

L-event is an EP by electronic music duo Autechre, released on Warp Records on 28 October 2013. The EP is a companion to Autechre's double album Exai, which was released earlier in the same year.^[1]

L-event
EP by Autechre
Released	11 October 2013 (download) 28 October 2013 (CD/LP)
Length	26:04
Label	Warp
Producer	Autechre
Autechre chronology
Exai (2013) L-event (2013) AE_LIVE (2015)

Release

Like Exai, L-event features album artwork and packaging by The Designer's Republic.^[2] It was released on 28 October 2013 as a CD and LP,^[3] accompanied with either a downloadable .mp3 or .WAV version of the album when purchased from Bleep.com.^[4] On 11 October 2013, the digital version of the EP was released, with it streaming on "corrupted" versions of certain websites including Telegraph, Ableton, Bloomberg News, CBS News, Huffington Post and Warp Record's own site, with the pages distorting and the images being replaced with the L-event album cover.^[5][6][7]

Reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(70/100)[8]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[9]
Pitchfork Media	(6.4/10)[10]
Resident Advisor	(4.0/5)[11]
The Skinny	[12]
Tiny Mix Tapes	(3.5/5)[13]
Under the Radar	[14]

Andy Kellman of AllMusic described L-event as some of Autechre's "most direct, least complex output", but said it was just as interesting as some of their more complicated works.^[9]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"tac Lacora"	6:04
2.	"M39 Diffain"	5:46
3.	"Osla for n"	8:11
4.	"newbound"	6:03
Total length:		26:04

All tracks are written by Sean Booth and Rob Brown^[15]

Release history

Country/Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalogue number
UK	28 October 2013	Warp Records	1×CD	WAPCD345
			1×LP	WAPLP345