Critic Score
Based on 3 reviews
User Score
1999 Ratings: #73
March 22, 1999 / Release Date
EP / Format
Warp / Label
IDM
Glitch
/ Genre
Aphex TwinProducer
Aphex TwinWriter
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Critic Reviews

100
Rolling Stone
"Windowlicker" is possibly the Aphex apex, a deft, inviting, and weird blend of all his interests.
85
Pitchfork
"You Labour Party blokes don't know bollocks about music. Listen to this "Windowlicker" track! It sounds like the bloody future. Aphex Twin's music is of a fockin' enigmatic origin. You can't tell if machine, man, alien, or bloody ghosts are making this beautiful noise. The beats are unlike anything in music!"
80
AllMusic
An extension of its satiric predecessor, "Windowlicker" focuses on eerie lounge-porn music (with a video to match) instead of the thrashcore of "Come to Daddy."
imgroot
75

ΔMΔΣi[n^−g]+C[0{v}∈R]

Saucelord777
84

Cursed Image

vmbrly
89

Porn actor: If you lick my windows. I'll eat your ass.

The album cover:

I know this is labeled as a single, but I always viewed this as an EP. Oddly enough, though, I actually never heard "Windowlicker" in full because I feared the other two tracks would pale in comparison to the titular track. This is kinda true now that I've actually heard it, but not nearly to the same extent since the other two are still great in their own right. The title track is still one of the most iconic ... read more

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JeenDork
60

what the actual fuck
i mean the production is crazy good, but i cant listen to this type of hard electronic songs

ferdinandoblue
NR

Good album.

yohxz
70

Dj mucus s’il etait moins talentueux et moins culturellement important

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