Just months after Syro, Richard D James has released an EP. Just don’t expect to be thrilled by it
In 2014, Aphex Twin returned after 13 years with Syro, a collection of acid tracks whose pH had been increased with the bicarbonate of middle age. Now with this new EP, just four months later, he’s emptying out more of the archive he has amassed over the long gap between releases, and it’s even less vital.
Syro had plenty of fans – Guardian critics collectively voted it the fourth best LP of 2014 – but I wasn’t really one of them. James’s masterpieces are among the greatest electronic music ever made (and in the case of Windowlicker the actual greatest) – works of staggering expressionist beauty full of love, sex and violence. Those were times when he had something to hurl into the world. Syro, on the other hand, is a very cute presentation of highly advanced production, made because he can. Its sheer richness and craft was enough to propel it along though, which is more than can be said for this EP.
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by Ben Beaumont-Thomas via Electronic music | The Guardian
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