Drukqs

Drukqs
Studio album by Aphex Twin
Released 22 October 2001 (2001-10-22)
Length 100:48
Label Warp
Aphex Twin chronology
Come to Daddy
(1997)		 Drukqs
(2001)		 26 Mixes for Cash
(2003)

Drukqs (stylised as drukQs) is the fifth studio album by Aphex Twin, a pseudonym used by English electronic musician Richard D. James. The album is a double album and peaked at number 22 on the UK Albums Chart, selling 11,476 copies in its first week of release.[1]

Notes

James has stated that the title is not related to drugs, and is "just a word [he] made up."[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic66/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Alternative Press8/10[5]
The Guardian[6]
Los Angeles Times[7]
NME9/10[8]
Pitchfork Media5.5/10[9]
Q[10]
Rolling Stone[11]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[12]
Spin5/10[13]

Initial critical response to drukQs was positive, though not as much as his previous albums under the Aphex Twin name. While at its 2001 release Alex Needham of NME called it "beautiful" and "bulging with goodies",[8] Spin's Simon Reynolds criticized the album as "unimpressive" and "trapped by [its] potential for infinitesimal tweakage"[13] and Pat Blashill of Rolling Stone called it his "most irrelevant album to date".[11] Later, though, the New Rolling Stone Album Guide in 2004 declaimed that "weirdly dismissed by many, Drukqs is often spectacular".[12] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 66, based on 21 reviews.[3]

Track listing

CD

All songs composed by Richard D. James.

Disc one
No. Title Length
1. "Jynweythek"   2:14
2. "Vordhosbn"   4:42
3. "Kladfvgbung Micshk"   2:00
4. "Omgyjya-Switch7"   4:46
5. "Strotha Tynhe"   2:03
6. "Gwely Mernans"   5:00
7. "Bbydhyonchord"   2:21
8. "Cock/Ver10"   5:17
9. "Avril 14th"   2:05
10. "Mt Saint Michel + Saint Michaels Mount"   8:02
11. "Gwarek2"   6:38
12. "Orban Eq Trx4"   1:27
13. "Aussois"   0:07
14. "Hy a Scullyas Lyf a Dhagrow"   2:09
15. "Kesson Daslef"   1:18
Total length:
 49:59
Disc two
No. Title Length
1. "54 Cymru Beats"   5:59
2. "Btoum-Roumada"   1:56
3. "Lornaderek"   0:30
4. "QKThr"   1:27
5. "Meltphace 6"   6:14
6. "Bit 4"   0:18
7. "Prep Gwarlek 3b"   1:13
8. "Father"   0:51
9. "Taking Control"   7:08
10. "Petiatil Cx Htdui"   2:05
11. "Ruglen Holon"   1:45
12. "Afx237 v.7"   4:15
13. "Ziggomatic 17"   8:28
14. "Beskhu3epnm"   1:58
15. "Nanou2"   3:22
Total length:
 47:22

Vinyl

Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Jynweythek Ylow"   2:14
2. "Vordhosbn"   4:42
3. "Kladfvgbung Micshk"   2:00
4. "Strotha Tynhe"   2:03
Total length:
 10:59
Side two
No. Title Length
1. "Omgyjya-Switch7"   4:46
2. "Gwely Mernans"   5:00
Total length:
 09:46
Side three
No. Title Length
1. "Cock/Ver10"   5:17
2. "Bbydhyonchord"   2:21
3. "Orban Eq Trx4"   1:27
Total length:
 09:05
Side four
No. Title Length
1. "Mt Saint Michel + Saint Michaels Mount"   8:02
2. "Beskhu3epnm"   1:58
Total length:
 10:00
Side five
No. Title Length
1. "Aussois"   0:07
2. "Hy A Scullyas Lyf A Dhagrow"   2:09
3. "Kesson Daslef"   1:18
4. "Avril 14th"   1:55
5. "Gwarek2"   6:38
Total length:
 12:07
Side six
No. Title Length
1. "54 Cymru Beats"   5:59
2. "Btoum-Roumada"   1:56
3. "Lornaderek"   0:30
4. "Penty Harmonium"   1:20
5. "Prep Gwarlek 3b"   1:13
6. "Father"   0:51
7. "Petiatil Cx Htdui"   2:05
Total length:
 13:54
Side seven
No. Title Length
1. "Meltphace 6"   6:14
2. "Bit 4"   0:18
3. "Taking Control"   7:08
4. "Ruglen Holon"   1:45
Total length:
 15:25
Side eight
No. Title Length
1. "Afx237 v.7"   4:15
2. "Ziggomatic v17"   8:28
3. "Nanou2"   3:22
Total length:
 16:05

Media references

"Avril 14th" has been used many times in other contexts. In 2006, it appeared on the soundtrack for Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette. In 2007, it was sampled in the digital short "Iran So Far" on a Saturday Night Live episode that aired on 29 September. There were complications of this—NBC didn't get the rights to use the song. However, rights were eventually garnered by Chrysalis Music, Aphex Twin’s publishing company, for television and DVD usage, but The Lonely Island was not allowed to include the track on its album Incredibad.[14][15] In 2010, "Avril 14th" was used as the credit music for Chris Morris's film Four Lions, and also sampled by Kanye West for his song "Blame Game" on the album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. In 2013, the song was featured in a trailer for Spike Jonze's film Her.

"Nanou 2" features in Shane Meadows' gritty cult thriller Dead Man's Shoes (2004). A drukQs poster can be seen in Edgar Wright's comedy horror film Shaun of the Dead (2004).

Personnel

Aphex Twin – piano, synthesizers, harmonium, keyboards, various percussive objects, treatments, sampler, bass guitar

Charts

Chart (2001) Peak
position
UK Albums Chart 22[16]
U.S. Top Heatseekers 2[17]
U.S. Top Electronic Albums 6[18]
U.S. Billboard 200 154[19]

References

  1. ↑ Pakinkis, Tom (29 September 2014). "Official Charts Analysis: alt-J's This Is All Yours secures No 1 album slot on 30,947 sales". Music Week. Intent Media. Retrieved 29 September 2014. (subscription required)
  2. ↑ Lester, Paul (5 October 2001). "Tank boy". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 1 May 2010.
  3. 1 2 "Reviews for Drukqs by Aphex Twin". Metacritic. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  4. ↑ Bush, John. "Drukqs – Aphex Twin". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
  5. ↑ "Aphex Twin: Drukqs". Alternative Press (161): 78. December 2001.
  6. ↑ "Pop CD releases". The Guardian. 19 October 2001. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  7. ↑ "Sanz Gives the Synth a Rest and Reconnects". Los Angeles Times. 16 December 2001. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  8. 1 2 Needham, Alex (20 October 2001). "Aphex Twin : Drukqs". NME. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  9. ↑ Seymour, Malcolm III (25 October 2001). "Aphex Twin: Drukqs". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
  10. ↑ Lynskey, Dorian (November 2001). "Aphex Twin: Drukqs". Q (183).
  11. 1 2 Blashill, Pat (8 November 2001). "Aphex Twin: Drukgs". Rolling Stone (881). Archived from the original on 11 November 2001. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  12. 1 2 Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 21–23. ISBN 0-743-20169-8.
  13. 1 2 Reynolds, Simon (November 2001). "Aphex Twin: Drukqs". Spin 17 (11): 130–32. ISSN 0886-3032. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  14. ↑ SammyBreeze (27 February 2009). "Lonely Island Interview". UGO. Archived from the original on 27 February 2009. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  15. ↑ "The Daily Swarm - Aphex Twin in SNL 'Iran So Far' rap with Andy Samberg and Adam Levine". www.thedailyswarm.com. Retrieved 2016-04-22.
  16. ↑ "Chart Stats - The Aphex Twin - Drukqs". ChartStats.com. Retrieved 30 August 2009.
  17. ↑ "Drukqs - Aphex Twin | Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-04-22.
  18. ↑ "EDM Music & Dance Albums Chart". Billboard. 2001-11-17. Retrieved 2016-04-22.
  19. ↑ "Top 200 Albums | Billboard". Billboard. 2001-11-10. Retrieved 2016-04-22.

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