Aphex Twin – Collapse EP Vinyl Record

Aphex Twin – Collapse EP Vinyl Record

“Very fast, very glitchy, a must-listen for fans of IDM and high-tempo electronic music. Love the album and promo artwork too.” – Popcultcha Dan’s Review

Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), best known by the alias Aphex Twin and less prominently as AFX,  is an Irish-born British musician, composer and DJ. He is best known for his idiosyncratic work in electronic styles such as techno, ambient, and jungle. Music journalists from publications including Mixmag, The New York Times, NME, Fact, Clash and The Guardian have called James one of the most influential or important contemporary electronic musicians.

Collapse EP is an album or EP by British electronic musician Richard D. James under the pseudonym Aphex Twin. It was released on 14 September 2018 on Warp. The record received universal acclaim from music critics, who praised James for returning to his signature “Aphex Twin” sound.

The individual tracks on Collapse were received positively by critics, with Daryl Keating of Exclaim! labelling the songs as “absolute gems” and Carlos Hawthorn from Resident Advisor feeling that each track had “moments abstract enough to grab your attention and human enough to keep it.” Writing for NME, Tom Connick described the record as “music for Mad Max’s post-apocalyptic parties […] a mad-hatter’s box of tricks, blown up and reconstructed” and called it Aphex Twin’s “most essential” release in years. Slant Magazine’s Josh Geller was surprised with how “warm and inviting” Collapse sounds, whose “dense bursts of intricate glitch to expansive, ambient soundscapes” makes it feel like a “more elaborate musical journey than its mere five tracks.”

Pressed on Classic Black Vinyl.

TRACKLISTING

Side A:

1. T69 Collapse
2. 1st 44