Syro | Loppylugs

Submitted by Matthew Baker on 29 November 2015 - 9:28pm

Nominations had to be from the Mercury Music Prize 2015 short list

Cover:

Artist:

Aphex Twin

album-ID:

a_178

Nationality:

Year:

2 015

Release-year:

0000

Num-of-tracks:

Track-listing:

minipops 67*XMAS_EVET10*produk 29*4 bit 9d api+e+6*180db_*CIRCLONT6A (syrobonkus mix)*fz pseudotimestretch+e+3*CIRCLONT14 (shrymoming mix)*syro u473t8+e (piezoluminescence mix)*PAPAT4*s950tx16wasr10 (earth portal mix)*aisatsana

Length-in-mins:

Nominator:

Bean

meeting-ID:

m_68

Now-num:

2 016

Spotify-URL:

6oRuinkJdTge4hpTuClEF8

Short-title:

syro

nominator-ID:

u_2

Meeting-date:

Monday, 7 March 2016

MusicBrainz-URL:

11a7c281-a260-4f77-a1d5-1ff2d4c917eb

Wikipedia-URL:

Syro

Spotify-link-type:

album

Metacritic-URL:

syro/aphex-twin

Discogs-URL:

Aphex-Twin-Syro/master/734427

Allmusic-URL:

syro-mw0002727829

rdio-URL:

Aphex_Twin/album/Syro

Pitchfork-URL:

19755-aphex-twin-syro

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reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

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I have got a lot of Aphex Twin recordings and, although he has this distinctive, unsettling and unusual sound, I do actually feel generally I can take it or leave it. He does have something of cult status, a striking image and has done some fantastic video / visual work, which goes some way towards explaining his reputation, but musically I’m not really sold on his outré excursions. So I did approach this with some trepidation but I actually think this is really good. It takes his mad, frenetic, disruptive, off the wall approach and applies it in a considered way to some nicely crafted ideas. This is actually a proper commercial reinvention of his work, he’s taken off some weird rough edges, added a slight funky vibe, and he moves the album along with a straight-forward and inviting drive. A bit of a change for Mr Twin and all the better for it, if you don’t mind me saying.
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reviewed by

Richard Norbury
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reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

Starts off with some interesting electo style sounds but turned out to be a huge disappointment, particularly as I was quite interested to hear what they would be like now. Incredibly repetitive, constant farty squelchy noises that really don't add anything to the tracks - a real struggle to get to the end.