[Aphex Twin] Fwd: DRUKQS REVIEW - APHEX TWIN

--- In zen_communication@y..., SONIC EDGE <james_heather@y...> wrote:
Aphex Twin is Richard D. James.It's tempting to
imagine Richard James holed up in his basement for
years on end, concocting foaming aural experiments to
try out on unsuspecting listeners, and he certainly
does little to dispel that image here. His past
musical output has varied from the gentle but weird,
to the baffling, to the ghastly, and with DRUKQS he
manages to combine all the aforementioned in a
compelling yet unsettling mix that is never less than
fascinating. The tracks are listed on the booklet, but
not necessarily in the same order they appear on the
album, and moreover James seems to have developed his
own language somewhere along the way, so we're left to
our own devices to figure things out.Like some
demented baseball pitcher, James constantly varies his
stylings, now pastoral acoustic piano, now impossibly
fast breakbeat techno garage, now weird hollers from
behind the basement door. He keeps the listener
constantly off balance (at one point including a
Stephen Hawking-like voice reading snippets of
Goldilocks and the Three Bears); it's a wild, strange
ride, but it's consistently fascinating to hear what
comes next.

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