Dodo's Album Reviews

 Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today, we are reviewing Skee Mask's third album and latest one at the time of writing, Pool. This was a surprise release on Bandcamp, and is also available on YouTube. I've heard talks that we doesn't have any plans of releasing it to larger streaming services, and I completely understand, given Bandcamp is a much better service from a monetary perspective. But anyway, let's get into the review. We open on Nvivo, which starts off with some ambient field recordings and highly reverberated SFX. Then a squelchy acid basslines emerges, alongside a quiet beat and occasional synth washes. Later on, louder hi hats come in as well. A very nice opener. Stone Cold 369 is in a similiar vein as the previous track, only this time a bit more bombastic, whilst not crossing the line of loud, glitchy beats. LFO has an array of swirling synths and not that much in terms of a beat. Nice breath of fresh air. Rdvnedub is a bit repetitive, given the ...

  Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today I will be reviewing the various singles and EPs that Mr. Richard D. James has released under the pseudonym, Aphex Twin. I will be doing this for every other band or singer I will be reviewing, if the said artist has enough. For example, The End of Electronics has only one single, and as such, I cannot make an entire review for only one song. With that being said, this might just be the longest post I have ever made, so strap in folks. This is gonna be a long one. ~~~ Analogue Bubblebath (1991) I know that this wasn't originally released under the Aphex Twin nickname, but I will still be reviewing it. Starting off the album we have the track, Analogue Bubblebath. It has a very clear 85-92 vibe to it, and is surprisingly calm and soothing to listen to. Than a sudden change for more intense melodies, Isoprophlex reminded me of the less beat driven songs on ...I Care Because You Do , squelchy sounding synths and glitchy drums...

Welcome back everyone to my blog. Today, I'll be reviewing Aphex Twin's fourth studio album, The Richard D. James Album. After the rather odd experience that was " ...I Care Because You Do ", I wasn't really expecting anything very enjoyable from this album, but low and behold, I was pleasantly surprised! Let's dive in deeper... Kicking off the album with 4. A strong start with a fast, skiddish beat and some violin-like melodies. Some synth pads scattered about, made for one of the best Aphex Twin songs in his whole discography! Cornish Acid had a harder, but slower beat compared to 4, mixing in some acid-like sounds here and there. Another pretty good track overall. Then comes Peek 824545201, and this song is all over the place, mixing in synths and fast, squelchy beats. Not the best, but still pretty good. Fingerbib was the chill song of this album, like the Alberto Balsalm of this release. I had a similiar motif to 4, mixing in violin melodies with a beat, ...

Welcome everyone to my music blog. Here, I shall be talking about different albums I have listened to. This week's post is about Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by Aphex Twin. Now, I had a vague idea of A.T.'s existence for about a year now, but the only songs I knew from him were Windowlicker, Come to Daddy and Alberto Balsalm. However, my interest in him grew once more when I was reading the 8th part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Jojolion, in which there is a pair of enemies called the A.Phex Brothers with their stands, Schottkey Nr.1 and Nr.2, respectively. So I looked up the song Schottkey Nr.1 and found the song, only without Nr.1, but instead with 7th Path, and so I gave it a listen. I really enjoyed and said to myself: "This song really fits the A.Phex Brothers." After that, I started to listen to more of Aphex Twin's music and decided to listen to the album Schottkey was part of, Selected Ambient Works 85-92. When I first read the title, I said to myself: ...