AFX: Chosen Lords

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AFX: Chosen Lords
(AMG Review) -- In 2001, when Aphex Twin fans got what they'd been hoping for — a new album — they soon learned that not every Aphex Twin work was pure genius. (Granted, they'd heard very little evidence of mediocrity before that point.) Drukqs was a rambling wreck of an album, a hodgepodge of material that appeared to have been plundered from at least three distinct periods, stretching over a full decade of Richard D. James' career. The Analord series of 12" singles, inaugurated with January 2005's Analord 10 and eventually including ten additional volumes, was much different. It proved that James was still capable of brilliance — not just scattered brilliance, but consistently excellent and occasionally stupendous work. Read more.

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