There’s definitely still some of the random nonsense that made up the first album but simultaneously there’s also some nice little songs on here as well. Skip the first one, but if you’re feeling daring, this is decently worthwhile enough to wade through.

IDK what to even review here it’s literally just random sound effects and improvised guitar noises for an hour and a half. Such an odd way to open an otherwise consistently fantastic discography.

Can’t imagine being the type of guy who chooses to spend 2 and a half hours listening to this mid when he has every opportunity to simply spend 14 minutes listening to SoFaygo - Angelic 7 which is fire all the way through. In fact you could probably listen to it several times in a row. Smh my head.

After a massive extended hiatus from his main moniker, Aphex Twin comes back with an hour and 4 minutes of total departure from his previous album under the name (that said, still fitting in line with his artistic progression under other artist names). This music is undeniably beautiful and pristine in an ambivalent and almost brutalist kind of way. The tight extended rhythmic grooves that are the foundation of each track allow the genius, complex, and ever-changing synth jams to really shine. ... read more

If the last two albums were fairytales, this is a long, violent dark fantasy epic that takes heavy cyberpunk influence. Retaining the medieval charm of Aphex’s music albiet darker in the interludes, the unhinged, breakneck breakcore tracks that make up the majority of this album’s runtime are some of the angriest and most insane music Richard has ever made.

A transitional album between the groovy medieval beats on ICBYD to the experimental and speedy drum breaks of DrukQs to honestly mixed results.

Abrasive yet groovy instrumentals with a heavy medieval atmosphere that’s fun and carefree at times and evil and dark at others. Def takes a few listens to really get but it hits like nothing else after that.

Urban Exploration vibes. The atmosphere on this record is murky, dark, spooky, and gorgeous in all the best ways and it’s made even better by the very lo-fi, grainy production. Pinnacle of ambient.

This album is like the best soundtrack to a CD-ROM game you got from the library when you were little and then forgot about later you’ve ever heard.

I totally get hating this album but the thing is the music sounds like the worst thing you’ve ever heard at first and then you kinda start to sink into the world and imagery of this album and its lyrics and once you understand that it’s like the opposite of an infohazard, the music starts sounding genuinely fun, enjoyable, and unique, and before you know it the second half of Veteran’s Day Poppy is the most beautiful passage of music you’ve ever heard.

It’s a good follow up to LUV vs the world but it’s not quite as good. Still very enjoyable though, a party staple.

It’s just a fun album full of bangers, the track list isn’t bloated to shit so it’s aged quite well.

This is my new favorite Earl project, it takes all the abstraction and cryptic lyrics of his previous albums but adds this new trap-influenced flair that actually somehow fits and makes the album just a little bit more accessible without streamlining it at all. Current AOTY as of writing.

This album’s incredibly minimalist take on their sound took a while to grow on me but once it did it gave this album such a unique sound, it has a couple of rougher tracks that makes it the weakest of the OG Cure trilogy but its still a classic just like all the others.

A chamber of sound and intentionally unfinished ideas that swallows you whole. Also Mitsubishi Sony is his second best song behind Pyramids.
EDIT: Yeah since writing this review this has actually become my favorite album of all time

This is an album full of really clean-sounding and fun RNB but I’m not even gonna lie this the majority of album is kinda hard to listen to because it has Pyramids which is the greatest song of all time and the rest of this album is good but just doesn’t stack up.

Another album that I don’t even feel like I need to review, it’s simply some of the most gorgeously arranged and produced minimalist RNB with incredibly reflective tone and lyrics and many truly magical moments.

Do I even need to review this??? It’s literally Thriller. It has no misses whatsoever. Maybe the most essential “essential listening” album of all time.

Wow this is surprisingly good. Sometimes it gets corny but the best tracks are some real ‘10s pop classics. I’d argue for anyone getting into that era of pop this is essential listening, it’s just so fun and carefree.

This is kind of like the Thursday to After Hours’ House Of Balloons, but I actually don’t like this one quite as much. It def experiments on the After Hours sound in a lot of cool ways but there’s also a good amount of filler, nevertheless some tracks that I didn’t like so much on first listen have grown on me since then and a lot of tracks here are absolute pop classics. Overall, I think it’s just barely a worthy follow-up.