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Aphex Twin
- Record Label: Warp
- Release Date: Jul 28, 2023
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- Summary: The first new music in 5 years from Richard D. James' Aphex Twin features three new tracks (plus a different mix of the first track).
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- Record Label: Warp
- Genre(s): Electronic, Techno, Experimental Techno, IDM, Electro-Techno
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Aug 18, 2023Its arrival is a comfort, offering sounds that will ring familiar to longtime fans — and to everyone else serve as an atmospheric Rorschach test, alternately primitive and futuristic, beautiful and menacing, propulsive and ethereal.
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Aug 2, 2023Instead of attempting to reinvent the wheel, he refines and extends his legacy, preserving the familiar while hearkening back to the uncanny moods that shroud his best ambient-leaning works.
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The WireAug 8, 2023A smorgasbord of bittersweetness, with yearning pads providing a translucent bed for snatches of fragmentary counterpoint. [Sep 2023, p.50]
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Aug 2, 2023This is very, very good – better than the rest. Analysis seems to make no sense when the art is so enormously enjoyable.
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Aug 2, 2023It’s tempting to speculate that there are more versions like that out there, just waiting to be discovered. Blackbox Life Recorder, the EP, might seem relatively modest, but the black box that is Aphex Twin’s extended universe remains delightfully unfathomable.
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Aug 2, 2023Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760 ends up a glorified, if very welcome, double-single as such: its satisfaction lies less in an end-to-end listen and much more in the binge mileage of its cornerstone tracks. Aphex Twin's sound is in as vitalised as it's ever been, but this release also suggests that a little contortion is more vital to his matrix than some may have thought.
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Aug 2, 2023The EP isn't a game changer, but it bears enough of Aphex Twin's unmistakable personality to be worthwhile.
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Aug 25, 2023Can’t stop playing this this E.P. It’s not a mold breaker but an immersive experience!
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Aug 3, 2023
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