APHEX TWIN - SYRO

  On 9/19/2014 at 8:29 AM, Gravity said:

4 bit is so fucking lush, i can't stop listening to it. it's perfect, the deep bass mixed with the airy sighs and bells. 1:39 - 1:53 is classic. it never stood out to me this much from the few times i've heard the minehead recording, but wow.

That one is the sleeper of the album I ithink. It really creeps up on you. A lot more emotional than it seems at first.

still at the sent to warehouse stage

come on you warehouse c***** lets have some aphex postage

  On 9/19/2014 at 12:00 PM, progben said:

Did anyone else completely lose their shit when that synth came in at the start of Metz? I sure did.

 

Feel the THANATON

I really did. That intro is one of the best moments of the album.

This might be one of his best albums. There are so many tiny classic moments that only last a few bars and then change. He said there was nothing groundbreaking here, bullshit. This album is leagues beyond what anybody else is doing at the moment.

It's a classic.

hm.. mixed feelings so far, a few listens in, tbqh

Glad I didn't listen to the leak, got this yesterday in the mail, it was dispatched Monday I think, never had any problems with Bleep pre-orders, strange that some people wait for weeks to get stuff, I got it 4 days before the release date

This album is one hell of a way to start a friday morning and start the week-end, just finished the first half and it is .

This will get played increasingly louder throughout the day that's for sure.

  On 9/19/2014 at 2:26 PM, LOL Alzado said:

This album is leagues beyond what anybody else is doing at the moment.

 

 

Granted there are a lot of lazy electronic music about but there always has been, regardless, that's a big claim.

Of course, I have not heard it yet so it's hard to comment. I would listen but I do not have the means.

The middle of "4 bit 9d ..." is pretty much the best groove of 2014 for me so far.

  On 9/19/2014 at 2:26 PM, LOL Alzado said:

This might be one of his best albums. There are so many tiny classic moments that only last a few bars and then change. He said there was nothing groundbreaking here, bullshit. This album is leagues beyond what anybody else is doing at the moment.

 

It's a classic.

totally agree. i was thinking the same thing myself, about the not being new or groundbreaking.

it is. there is honestly nothing else quite like this out there, and certainly not at this level.

definitely a lot of ceephax influence on a few of these tracks. great album, syropiezosomething is my favorite.

Wicked, got a mail from Bleep with a tracking code saying it will be delivered on monday. There's no mail delivery on monday where I'm from, so let's see :)!

and it's a total departure from the trajectory of drukqs > analord > tuss

  On 9/19/2014 at 1:53 PM, progben said:

Anyone else noticed that the swirly synth riff ("twiddlydiddly bleep bleep bloop bloop") repeated a lot in CIRCLONT6A is also used in the title track? I think there's actually a few more repeated motifs like this across the album which I've noticed - some of them must be more subliminal (ie. on a key/scale/pattern level) because I can't direct pick them out like the swirly riff, I can just feel them somehow.

 

"It can be quite impenetrable for most people, because you can't latch on to something. It sounds quite random at first.... But there is a method. People just have to take time to work it out."

 

I reckon there's a lot of things embedded into Syro that make it gel so well as an album. It wouldn't surprise me if every single song is linked together thematically in some bizarre and crazy way. Feel free to speculate! (or flame me if you think I'm talking rubbish).

 

I'm going to do some in-depth listening to the title track because as was said somewhere in this monster thread, it's rare he makes one. Maybe Syro u473t8+e contains an element from every other song? (Justifying its position as the title track). There's also got to be a reason he included Fz pseudotimestretch. Again, it feels strangely necessary to the album on some subconscious level.

 

Anyway, 'nuff rambling. Let me know what you think Watmm!

Elements of gz pseudotimestretch seem to be littered around syro and the Circlont tracks. Utterly sublime. I totally agree, it has a lot of things linking the tracks together

  On 9/19/2014 at 2:43 PM, MisterE said:

 

  On 9/19/2014 at 2:26 PM, LOL Alzado said:

This might be one of his best albums. There are so many tiny classic moments that only last a few bars and then change. He said there was nothing groundbreaking here, bullshit. This album is leagues beyond what anybody else is doing at the moment.

 

It's a classic.

totally agree. i was thinking the same thing myself, about the not being new or groundbreaking.

 

it is. there is honestly nothing else quite like this out there, and certainly not at this level.

 

ceephax's cro magnox is probably closest thing to syro

  On 9/19/2014 at 2:37 PM, Perezvon said:

The middle of "4 bit 9d ..." is pretty much the best groove of 2014 for me so far.

shits tight. rich is right in the pocket on that one.

  On 9/19/2014 at 2:52 PM, LOL Alzado said:

and it's a total departure from the trajectory of drukqs > analord > tuss

I might have to disagree here, cause to me this sounds very much like the Tuss. Not that that's a bad thing, which it isn't at all, but yeah

It's quite noticeable because we know it was mastered by someone else.

notice to myself: stay away from this thread.

like

  On 9/19/2014 at 1:59 PM, BIOXLAT said:

still at the sent to warehouse stage

come on you warehouse c***** lets have some aphex postage

You guys are right, produk especially is giving me Cro Magnox flashbacks. Can't believe I didn't notice before.

And as much as I'm really digging this album so far, I have to say it hasn't quite reached Cro Magnox heights yet. But give it time...

I had to endure a lot of noise throughout, but I still some how was able to listen to the album. ITS AWESOME! I have to admit when it started I wasn't to keen on XMASEVET10 but then I starte to enjoy it again

From a remote village in Scotland:

Track 9 @2:04 seems to sample taking control ? or just really similar twinkly sound.

Initial thoughts

This album shows (again) that RDJ is, without any doubt, the best electronic musician ever, the Mozart of our age. There are very very few other musicians that can be close to his talent. Basically, there is no physical way to make something more advanced than this: you would need to expand one dimension on how our brains interprets sounds to have more space for complexity.
The tracks are extremely futuristic and funky, they are at least one decade ahead, yet there are many reminiscences of his earliest works. Maybe in technique-speaking we can see some relation with The Tuss, but it looks and feels completely different, so I don't agree at all that SYRO is the next step of The Tuss as some other people said here.
I think this album expose an introspective period for RDJ. I think it may be a point of inflection for his personal life and his own career; again, this is pure speculation... And I feel like some parts of some tracks are just for pure appreciation of, for instance, a single note. And here is where the amazing mixing/mastering plays a very important role.

Usually I feel very connected with Aphex Twin works, almost like his sounds comes from inside of my own spirit. This time I don't feel exactly the same, but that's not bad because I still put SYRO in my top 5 (with MFM, RDJ, SAW II, and Rushup Edge)

tl;dr: this is pure braindance, enjoy!