Aelita (Tied & Tickled Trio album)

Aelita "completed a movement that led away from [Tied & Tickled Trio's] earlier jazz-based sound and towards a more self-consciously futurist form of open-ended electronic improvisation," according to The Wire.^[4]

Pitchfork's Brian Howe wrote that Aelita "is perfect for art gallery openings, dinner parties, and scoring silent sci-fi films. But beyond its utility as a backdrop, it's an awfully cold, blank, and directionless void to trawl alone."^[5] Tiny Mix Tapes writer Urban Guerilla noted that the album "fluctuates too much from moment to moment" and generally "falls a little flat."^[1] Joe Tacopino of PopMatters described it as "a concept album without any lyrics" and found that "within [the jazz] genre, which has not fully embraced the era of Pro Tools, The Tied and Tickled Trio has constructed a compelling argument to meld these two worlds together."^[2] SLUG Magazine's Andrew Glassett praised the album's overall production and percussion sounds.^[6]

All tracks are written by Markus Acher, Micha Acher, Christoph Brandner, Andreas Gerth and Carl Oesterhelt.

1. "Aelita 1" – 3:05
2. "You Said Tomorrow Yesterday" – 8:22
3. "Tamaghis" – 7:33
4. "Aelita 2" – 1:32
5. "A Rocket Debris Cloud Drifts" – 7:48
6. "Chlebnikov" – 4:15
7. "Other Voices Other Rooms" – 8:19
8. "Aelita 3" – 3:04