Amber is the second studio album by English electronic music duo Autechre, released on 7 November 1994 by Warp. It was the first Autechre album to be composed entirely of new material, as their debut album Incunabula (1993) was a compilation of older tracks. Production and style Unlike Incunabula, which was part of Warp's Artificial Intelligence series of albums and predominantly a compilation of older material, Amber was described by Autechre member Rob Brown as "genuinely the first album we put out on Warp". Designed by Ian Anderson of The Designers Republic, the cover art is a detail of a panoramic photograph of sandstone cliffs in Cappadocia, Turkey, taken by landscape photographer Nick Meers. Select described the album as a "'90s update of electro's cut-'n'-paste rhythmics into the realms of the odd," and stated that Amber "made music by μ-Ziq or Aphex Twin seem almost conventional." CMJ described the sound of Amber as "entirely electronic and entirely instrumental" outside a few vocal samples. In a 2013 retrospective feature, Fact described Amber as containing "some of Autechre's most ambient moments," and compared several songs ("Nine" and "Yulquen") to the works of Brian Eno, saying that their "beatless, but powerful low-end means that they’re contemplative rather than ethereal". Fact also described songs such as "Montreal" and "Piezo" as uniquely-styled pieces with "deep veins of techno and acid house". Release Amber was first released by Warp on 7 November 1994 on compact disc, double vinyl and cassette. The album was released in the United States on 24 January 1995 by Wax Trax! and TVT Records. The album has subsequently been reissued in all major formats, including digital download. Warp notably reissued Autechre's first three albums—Incunabula, Amber and Tri Repetae—on vinyl on 11 November 2016. Critical reception Selects Gareth Grundy rated the album four out of five, describing Autechre as "out on the fringes, having a good rummage for the weird and beautiful," and stating that the album was not "goalless experimentation. There's plenty of melody on board, it's just that it creeps up on you from behind." CMJ writer Heidi MacDonald noted that Autechre's more rhythmic music, such as "Glitch" and "Piezo," is "almost hypnotically listenable" but that slower tracks were "dangerously close to new age". Ned Raggett of AllMusic gave the album a four-and-a-half star rating out of five, and compared the album to Incunabula, opining that "a couple of tracks could