Syro - Aphex Twin

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Quietus review


http://thequietus.com/articles/16166-ap ... yro-review

"It's the aural equivalent of James putting a reassuring arm around the listener's shoulder and saying – “Hey, it's going to be OK. I'm back and it's not shit.” The one-time agitator has mellowed"

[Governmentyard]

Leaked.

[kel]

track 6, when the acid line drops its

and on that note:

[kel]

CD arrived today, never really listened to the barbican piano tune till now, corker, love the bird song.

[buddh4sack]

Japanese Bonus Track:

[nyarla]

i like that, tempted to buy a second, japanese copy!

good album, i love it already. it's like...not mega iconic like some of his past ones are to me.. it's more like an 'AFX' release.. just, really really good music that isn't flashy. i like it more than analord (i love analord). haven't heard the tuss yet! :O can't wait to see what else he puts out now in this new age of aphex.

track 6 is my current fave.
and the bass that kicks in at 4:48 in track 2 is still one of the best basses ever

[Surfr]

I'm on my second listen now. Just making acquaintances with the album at this point. Overall impression is good, but nothing standout has hit yet. I reckon it's a grower

[bcass]

Although there's the inevitable filler tracks, I think this is his best work yet. Not groundbreaking, but wonderfully intricate and just plain interesting.

[(o)(o)]

i like that, tempted to buy a second, japanese copy!

good album, i love it already. it's like...not mega iconic like some of his past ones are to me.. it's more like an 'AFX' release.. just, really really good music that isn't flashy. i like it more than analord (i love analord). haven't heard the tuss yet! :O can't wait to see what else he puts out now in this new age of aphex.

track 6 is my current fave.
and the bass that kicks in at 4:48 in track 2 is still one of the best basses ever

Have to go back slightly on what I said earlier.. this album is genius.

It does have that micro-editing unlike AW2... so it's harder to repeat listen.. but nontheless this is "super interesting" and bounces along nicely in places. The problem with some of this stuff is it's hard to latch on to as every bar being different. So more of a curiosity value, than a record you can move your butt to. There is a method to the madness however and it's good art.

Despite appearances of a cohesive and organised release, this is basically a hodge podge of pieces recorded over a 7 year period bashed onto a disc and shoved out so he can draw a line under it and move on. Seems there is a purpose behind this so may be some more commercial material in the pipelines. One does get the impression that one may have to punt a few records from time to time to sustain ones hobby.

Some interesting discussion about the recording and mastering. The Tuss stuff is pretty clean - this has some very deliberate clipping for loudness-war purposes. It's not brickwalled but it will hit 0db so not for old CD players. Oops!

The recordings come from 7 different studios and if you look at the gear list in relation to the tracks as depicted on this infographic :



Which is easier to digest here : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... EU/pubhtml you can see the recordings are roughly clumped in sessions which are tracks
1-3
4
5
6-9
10
11
12
..and if you are mindful of this IMO you can hear it in the actual recordings. Track 1 is mastered by a different engineer to the rest (for the single release) so has another slightly different veneer to it. There is some speculation that the infographic is in fact a disinfographic - and Dicky Boy James has said he's a liar and he has been known to lie a lot - deliberately - to fuck with his audience - however the graphic does seem to tally somewhat with what he's said in interviews and the textural quality of the tracks.

The Tuss stuff is IMO even better. Check it out!

[(o)(o)]

Tuss track with Llamasoft friendly grahic..

[nyarla]

yeah cool! i should get tuss.

i've also upgraded my opinion on syro. listening today in a sleep deprived early morning state it suddenly fell into place for me (i thought it had already!) and i heard it as a whole and it's AMAZING. it makes sense to me now that it's aphex and not afx. it's masterful. good for my head, heart and body. except that one song.

[bcass]

Anyone know where I can buy just the Japanese exclusive track in lossless format?

[kel]

you can buy the Japanese track from Japanese web sites, good luck with the translation tools

the tuss if top tho, Fredugolon and GX1 Solo, foley acid.

[Deckard]

He should keep his gob shut and let his music do the talking - 911 an "inside job" I know he can be a wind-up merchant but God has he got any sense of values ?

[(o)(o)]

He should keep his gob shut and let his music do the talking - 911 an "inside job" I know he can be a wind-up merchant but God has he got any sense of values ?

Richard James is a bit of a dick.

But who is he offending here?