...I Care Because You Do

…I Care Because You Do
Studio album by Aphex Twin
Released 24 April 1995 (1995-04-24)
Recorded 1990-1994
Length 63:49
Label Warp
Aphex Twin chronology
Ventolin
(1995)		 …I Care Because You Do
(1995)		 Donkey Rhubarb
(1995)

...I Care Because You Do is the third studio album by English electronic musician Richard D. James under the alias Aphex Twin, released on 24 April 1995. The album contains various tracks recorded by James between 1990 and 1994. Rolling Stone described the album sound as not having much to do with modern techno music of the era, stating it closer to avant-garde and classical composers like John Cage or Philip Glass as well as being influenced by drum and bass music that was gaining popularity in the United Kingdom at the time.

On its release, ...I Care Because You Do peaked at 24th position on the UK Albums Chart. The album received positive reviews on its release, with Entertainment Weekly, Spin, and Rolling Stone finding it a greater album than James' previous work, Selected Ambient Works Volume II.

Production

Each track on ...I Care Because You Do is annotated with a date, revealing that the tracks were created between 1990 and 1994.[1]

Style

Rolling Stone stated ...I Care Because You Do music had "little to do with techno in any of its more popular guises" and that James' music was more appropriately comparable to John Cage or Philip Glass than Moby or The Orb and that the album is where James music became "denser and stranger".[2][1] The magazine also noted that the music on the album drew "most strongly from hip-hop. James' trademark is to put rhythm and percussion above all else"[2] Rolling Stone later stated in 2004 the increasingly active drum backing was inspired by the presence of drum and bass music in the United Kingdom.[1]

Release

...I Care Because You Do was released on 24 April 1995.[3] It was released on vinyl, compact disc and cassette.[3] It charted for two weeks in the United Kingdom peaking at number 24 on the UK Albums Chart.[4] ...I Care Because You Do was re-issued on vinyl by the record label 1972 on 18 September 2012.[5] Warp also re-issued the album in vinyl with a download card on 8 October 2012.[5]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[6]
Entertainment WeeklyA–[7]
Rolling Stone[2]
Select4/5[8]
Spin8/10[9]
The Sydney Morning Herald[10]

Select referred to it as James best album since Surfing on Sine Waves and his "most coherent one to date".[8] The review stated that James had the ability to "make the avant-garde sound pop" and that he "delivers complex contemporary systems music in the most deliciously simple forms".[8] The Sydney Morning Herald gave a positive review, "As ever, his palette of sound is astonishing, his arrangements effective and deliberate"[10]

Entertainment Weekly praised the album and called it superior to Selected Ambient Works Volume II which was described as "a snooze".[7] The review went on to note that this album "creates sounds that are simultaneously comforting and scary — a fitting metaphor for the contemporary clash of technology and the humans befuddled by it."[7] Spin noted that album was superior to Selected Ambient Works Volume II as it "cut the middle of [techno]'s kitchen-sink aesthetic without sacrificing melody coherence or rhythm"[9] Spin also noted that to hear "truly great" works by James, you would still need to purchase Selected Ambient Works 85–92.[9] Rolling Stone gave the album a rating of four out of five stars, stating that James was "making some of the most engaging and important music of our time."[2] Select later placed the album at 42nd place on their list of the best albums of 1995, referring to the album as "leftfield , sound pop brilliance."[11]

In a retrospective of James work in the Rolling Stone album guide, ...I Care Because You Do was rated three and a half stars out of five.[12][1] This retrospective review found tracks that were newer were the best ones.[1]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Acrid Avid Jam Shred"   7:38
2. "The Waxen Pith"   4:50
3. "Wax The Nip"   4:19
4. "Icct Hedral" (edit) 6:07
5. "Ventolin" (Video Version) 4:29
6. "Come On You Slags!"   5:45
7. "Start As You Mean To Go On"   6:05
8. "Wet Tip Hen Ax"   5:17
9. "Mookid"   3:51
10. "Alberto Balsalm"   5:11
11. "Cow Cud Is A Twin"   5:34
12. "Next Heap With"   4:43

[13]

Credits

The album credits only state that "Everything by Richard D. James. Self portrait painted by me."[13]

Charts

Chart (1995) Peak
position
UK Albums Chart 24[4]

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Brackett, Hoard 2004, p. 22.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Prince, David J. (2 February 1998). "I Care Because You Do : Aphex Twin". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 11 October 2008. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Aphex Twin:...I Care Because You Do". Warp. Archived from the original on 19 October 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  4. 1 2 "...I Care Because You Do". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  5. 1 2 Hudson, Alex (25 July 2012). "Aphex Twin's '...I Care Because You Do' and 'Richard D. James Album' Get Vinyl Reissues". Exclaim!. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  6. ↑ Bush, John. "I Care Because You Do – Aphex Twin". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  7. 1 2 3 Browne, David (2 June 1995). "...I Care Because You Do". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 21 October 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  8. 1 2 3 Grundy, Gareth (May 1995). "Aphex Twin: I Care Because You Do". Select (59): 93.
  9. 1 2 3 Weisbard, Eric (July 1995). "Aphex Twin: I Care Because You Do". Spin 11 (4): 74–75. ISSN 0886-3032. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  10. 1 2 Danielsen, Shane (4 September 1995). "From Chaos To Convention". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 12.
  11. ↑ Grundy, Gareth (January 1996). "Top 50 Albums of the Year". Select: 78–79.
  12. ↑ Brackett, Hoard 2004, p. 21.
  13. 1 2 ...I Care Because You Do (Media notes). Aphex Twin. Warp. 1995. WARP LP 30.

References

  • Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0743201698. 

External links

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