{"product_id":"aphex-twin-drukqs-4lp","title":"Aphex Twin \/ Drukqs \/ 4LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty-five years after its original release, Warp Records reissues \u003cstrong\u003eAphex Twin\u003c\/strong\u003e’s \u003cstrong\u003eDrukqs\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album includes some of \u003cstrong\u003eAphex Twin\u003c\/strong\u003e’s best-known tracks, ‘Avril 14th’ and ‘QKThr’, and this is the first time this 4 LP album has been available as a standard vinyl release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new black vinyl quadruple LP edition comes in a gatefold sleeve with black poly-lined inners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere’s \u003cstrong\u003ePiers Martin\u003c\/strong\u003e writing about \u003cstrong\u003eDrukqs\u003c\/strong\u003e in \u003cstrong\u003eA Disco Pogo Tribute To Aphex Twin\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIs ‘Drukqs’ Aphex Twin’s most divisive album? Reviews at the time point to it being poorly received in some quarters. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Pretty vacant – techno’s king prankster just ran out of ideas” sighed Q magazine. “Let’s just say he’s no Erik Satie” said Spin, adding: “James seems perversely trapped by the potential for infinitesimal tweakage and cartoony effects offered by plug-ins”. “Too much cake and no nuts” The Wire noted. “Not so much career development as career regression”. Pitchfork scored it a mere 5.5.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReleased in October 2001, ‘\u003cstrong\u003eDrukqs\u003c\/strong\u003e’ was a grand, sprawling statement from a 30-year-old \u003cstrong\u003eRichard D James\u003c\/strong\u003e that seemed to frustrate critics almost because of what it wasn’t – or because it couldn’t quite live up to the promise of what had come before. It arrived two and a half years after\u003cstrong\u003e Aphex Twin\u003c\/strong\u003e’s biggest hit ‘\u003cstrong\u003eWindowlicker\u003c\/strong\u003e’, a gooey cyber-funk number that once again wrong-footed his followers, and a track that capped a decade in which James appeared to mint a different genre with each new release. Towards the end of the 1990s, he’d flit from drill’n’bass to music-box confections to computer-controlled musique concrete, and then send up the Prodigy with ‘\u003cstrong\u003eCome to Daddy\u003c\/strong\u003e’, all while populating his live shows with giant teddy bears and bodybuilders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaving achieved so much so quickly – he built a world for \u003cstrong\u003eAphex Twin\u003c\/strong\u003e that left plenty of room for interpretation and speculation – his fans became used to being spoiled rotten. The weight of expectation around ‘\u003cstrong\u003eDrukqs\u003c\/strong\u003e’ meant it would be very difficult for James to deliver something that satisfied everyone – something unheard-of and innovative that teemed with hits, all wrapped up in some mischievous concept – but as this 30-track, 100-minute-long flawed masterpiece attests, he gave it his best shot.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Warp Records","offers":[{"title":"Black Vinyl Gatefold","offer_id":57328232169847,"sku":"WARPLP92R","price":48.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0973\/8076\/1975\/files\/Aphex-Twin--Drukqs--LP--Front--2000x2000.png?v=1785242321","url":"https:\/\/store.discopogo.co\/products\/aphex-twin-drukqs-4lp","provider":"Disco Pogo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}