APHEX TWIN - SYRO

"Dispatched"

  On 9/19/2014 at 4:52 PM, pera said:

 

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!

This is a really great point that crystallized the second half of Syro for me. I love the album through and through, other than produk (which will probably grow) and 180db_ (which probably won't because I can't find any seeds), but it's interesting how particularly the second half makes me feel like I'm listening to someone else's music, while the first half and much of the rest of his discography makes me feel like I'm listening to the music I would make if I weren't a stupid shadow on the wall of a cave.

The '4 bit 9d...' studio version on the album seems to be a very different mix to what I have heard on live recordings of the track, would love to hear that live mix version released one day as well. 'XMAS..'' is such a compositional masterpiece, I'm just going to listen to that track for a week before listening to the rest again. Also, the Bleep Pdf link that leads to an error page is rather odd, hope they sort that. Thanks for the discussion thread errybaaady! . and in the off chance that RDJ reads this thread ...THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU so much you clever sausage!

Sort of random. but am I the only when when listening to this, find it all of a sudden ok to indulge in any bad habits you have? (preface: I'm sort of a health freak.. yeah one of those, but when I sat down to listen to this with the best sound I could muster and solitude, I ordered the largest pizza I could find, guzzled soda.. and randomly took a nicorette lozenge.)

  On 9/19/2014 at 5:11 PM, Vaaler9 said:

Sort of random. but am I the only when when listening to this, find it all of a sudden ok to indulge in any bad habits you have? (preface: I'm sort of a health freak.. yeah one of those, but when I sat down to listen to this with the best sound I could muster and solitude, I ordered the largest pizza I could find, guzzled soda.. and randomly took a nicorette lozenge.)

Woah! settle down there badboy

  On 9/19/2014 at 4:04 PM, Joyrex said:

From a remote village in Scotland:

 

Played it for my 3-month old whose favorite music is my wife singing about the plants or her socks or whatever. When EVET going, the baby went ABSOLUTELY NUTS, un unprecedented display of sustained and deep joy. She and I are going to hear this album a million more times, but so far it's just wonderful. I reviewed it for some homies, fringe Aphexers, with this: "IT WAS ALL WORTH IT!!!!!!!!!! BEACH BREEZES! BEER! BACK DUNKS! TWIN PEAKS! BABY CHICKENS! GLORY AND LOVE" too much?

  On 9/19/2014 at 5:14 PM, A Reggae Lee Bowyer said:

 

  On 9/19/2014 at 5:11 PM, Vaaler9 said:

Sort of random. but am I the only when when listening to this, find it all of a sudden ok to indulge in any bad habits you have? (preface: I'm sort of a health freak.. yeah one of those, but when I sat down to listen to this with the best sound I could muster and solitude, I ordered the largest pizza I could find, guzzled soda.. and randomly took a nicorette lozenge.)

Woah! settle down there badboy

 

haha. i know. TERRIBLE.. I actually was ridiculous back in the day. I'm 'leave it to beaver' style these days.

I haven't been able to enjoy Syro very much on earphones so far. It sounds beautiful on my studio monitors but through the earphones it sounds pretty muddy and lacks clarity. My earphones are not top of the line but they are decent enough to have expected better.
It's very rare that I listen to music on earphones anyway and it does sound fucking lovely on my monitors so I don't care but I'm curious to know how others feel on this. Maybe my earphones have gone shitty or the rip just isn't all that great.

  On 9/19/2014 at 5:18 PM, A Reggae Lee Bowyer said:

I haven't been able to enjoy Syro very much on earphones so far. It sounds beautiful on my studio monitors but through the earphones it sounds pretty muddy and lacks clarity. My earphones are not top of the line but they are decent enough to have expected better.

It's very rare that I listen to music on earphones anyway and it does sound fucking lovely on my monitors so I don't care but I'm curious to know how others feel on this. Maybe my earphones have gone shitty or the rip just isn't all that great.

Same thing with me.. but I did realize my earphones acutally did sort of go to crap when the album sounded wonderfully clear in just a pair of iphone earbuds.

pdf booklet now available for download from bleep

wow amazing, a folder with a logo jpg in it. anyone got anything a bit more substantial?

The album took about six listens to get into, but I'm there. Was a bit surprised by the jungle, but it's still fun to hear him work with it, and branch out.

XMASEVE_T10 [thanaton3 mix] is indeed fantastic. PAPAT4 [pineal mix] kills. It's like 'inner spirit' music for me as someone mentioned above, which is what most of the RDJA – Windowlicker era falls into for me. The CIRCLONTs are great, and I loved the closer - Disklavier 4 life. I liked minipops 67 right away as well.

I am very surprised by how much recording noise is in the master; he mentions a couple of times about recording gear and synths in interesting ways before it goes back into the computer, and there is a lot of unusual 3D-ish sound space on some of the tracks.

Not as great as drukqs, Rushup Edge or RDJA but it's up there. Glad he returned.

Ok, I'm only at track 5, I want to take it really slowly and relisten rather than rushing through the album, but… so far it's just ok. 180db_, what the hell? This would have been a disappointment, had it been a free download.

There are good bits here and there, I seem to like 4bit the most so far, but I have to agree with a friend of mine who called the album for the most part 'jamming'.

I'd be happy to be very wrong in a few months (days, hopefully), but so far I almost regret spending the 30 Euro on the vinyl, a CD would have been just fine (so far).

Well, still 7 tracks to go, from what I read here, some are really good.

Oh, to anybody calling this unrelated to The Tuss:

  On 9/19/2014 at 5:18 PM, A Reggae Lee Bowyer said:

I haven't been able to enjoy Syro very much on earphones so far. It sounds beautiful on my studio monitors but through the earphones it sounds pretty muddy and lacks clarity. My earphones are not top of the line but they are decent enough to have expected better.

It's very rare that I listen to music on earphones anyway and it does sound fucking lovely on my monitors so I don't care but I'm curious to know how others feel on this. Maybe my earphones have gone shitty or the rip just isn't all that great.

wow really? this album sounds fantastically produced on my audiotechnica, try with better headphones

Just listened to it. Took a walk through the woods with my headphones for minimal distraction.

Right now i don't know really what to think about it. Expectations are dangerous. There is to much going on. Right now, it feels a little dissapointing but that could be because i've listened to minipops to much (which is right now still my favorite)

180db was the bomb. I saw some horses nodded with their heads in sync with the track. Cool experience.

I wait for a second turn til i get the vinyl for a good listen on my system with some absinthe and a big fat doobie in my hand.

  On 9/19/2014 at 5:23 PM, BIOXLAT said:

pdf booklet now available for download from bleep

Booklet? It's just a .jpg of the album cover for me?

And samples for Syro up on Bleep, if anyone cares about that :)

  On 9/19/2014 at 5:34 PM, Herr Jan said:

 

  On 9/19/2014 at 5:23 PM, BIOXLAT said:

pdf booklet now available for download from bleep

Booklet? It's just a .jpg of the album cover for me?

 

And samples for Syro up on Bleep, if anyone cares about that :)

 

Yes, same here; somebody must be sweating right now in Bleep's admin section.

  On 9/19/2014 at 3:51 PM, coolandfrank said:

 

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

 

LOL

  On 9/19/2014 at 5:28 PM, pera said:

 

  On 9/19/2014 at 5:18 PM, A Reggae Lee Bowyer said:

I haven't been able to enjoy Syro very much on earphones so far. It sounds beautiful on my studio monitors but through the earphones it sounds pretty muddy and lacks clarity. My earphones are not top of the line but they are decent enough to have expected better.

It's very rare that I listen to music on earphones anyway and it does sound fucking lovely on my monitors so I don't care but I'm curious to know how others feel on this. Maybe my earphones have gone shitty or the rip just isn't all that great.

wow really? this album sounds fantastically produced on my audiotechnica, try with better headphones

 

That's reassuring to read. I hope you're right. I should probably get some new headphones anyway.

Contact review: 4.5/5

http://www.contactmusic.com/album-review/aphex-twin-syro

Apparently the standard review is one-increment-below-max/max, with the deduction being because it isn't "innovative" enough, despite the fact that it'd have gotten half that score if it were "innovative" enough.

on reddit

"Yesterday when I went to my record store to reserve my copy of Syro, the owner of the place told me that when he calls me on Saturday to let me know that it is in the store, he's going to tell me about something else that will be available either on the same day or soon after.

He told me that he's not allowed to say anything about what it might be..."

  On 9/19/2014 at 5:52 PM, ieatacid said:

on reddit

 

"Yesterday when I went to my record store to reserve my copy of Syro, the owner of the place told me that when he calls me on Saturday to let me know that it is in the store, he's going to tell me about something else that will be available either on the same day or soon after.

He told me that he's not allowed to say anything about what it might be..."

:DDDD

Badgercore

  On 9/19/2014 at 5:54 PM, progben said:

 

  On 9/19/2014 at 5:52 PM, ieatacid said:

on reddit

 

"Yesterday when I went to my record store to reserve my copy of Syro, the owner of the place told me that when he calls me on Saturday to let me know that it is in the store, he's going to tell me about something else that will be available either on the same day or soon after.

He told me that he's not allowed to say anything about what it might be..."

 

:DDDD

 

Melodies from Mars.. Joyrex's avatar was a clue

The only track that keeps it from a 10 for me is the syro track, I just can't get into it, everything else is perfect