Aphex Twin gets away with a lot. All his non-remixes and throwaways and pisstakes get filed under puckishly brilliant - so too goes his EP named after the notoriously fussy Cheetah ms800? It's unclear the role the synth played in this - it's mostly a series of agreeable, warm, buzzy thumpers that probably wouldn't get a second sniff if not for the ass that farted them.
Don't get me wrong, peak Aphex Twin's the shit. But there's nothing special here. The best bit is center two tracks of aimless, strange noise that sounds like it maybe was actually made on the ms800, so ploddingly abstract and demo-ey as it is -- adding up to 64 seconds of music. the Cirklon tracks are funky and agreeable in a jazz-adjacent old-Aphex kinda way, but this feels like an artist coasting on his second-wave of absence-fueled fame, and its hard not to be a little cynical about it 3/5
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment