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- Summary: This 30-track, 2-disc set from Richard D. James is his first Aphex Twin album in five years.
- Record Label: Warp / Sire
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 21
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Mixed: 9 out of 21
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Negative: 1 out of 21
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In-between the chaos and peace, 'Drukqs' induces a whole host of emotions using acid squiggles, plucked piano strings and 80s electro-breaks.
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The best work of his inventively mad career.
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What 'Drukqs' never is, of course, is boring. It's also beautifully paced. No track sounds like the one before, even though Aphex rarely strays far from the musical palate that's served him so well in the past.
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While there are a couple of tracks that are completely amazing, the album as a whole could have used a little better sequencing to make it more tight.
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Much of "Drukqs" sounds like two different albums competing and thus canceling each other out.... An ambitious but ultimately failed experiment.
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Unfortunately, most of the album's beautiful moments are cordoned off from the unbeautiful ones in ways that leave both wanting.
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His most irrelevant album to date: a double CD, thirty-track compendium of indecipherable song titles, gratuitously weird sounds and occasional wisps of ersatz classical piano that are aimlessly pretty.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 27 out of 30
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Mixed: 2 out of 30
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Negative: 1 out of 30
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Jul 14, 2012
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Nov 15, 2010
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Sep 25, 2020
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charliehNov 9, 2005If you are interested in hearing an album that trancends classification, destroys expectations and simply delights, you must listen to Druqks.
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MarkWApr 30, 2003
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StephenK.Nov 5, 2001
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Mar 16, 2013
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