Drukqs [PA] by Aphex Twin

Pros: Some cool beats and electronic noise, and a few soothing ambient tracks.
Cons: Most of the tracks seem pointless or repetitive.

Well, here’s another one to put in the file labeled “Why on Earth is David listening to this?” Call me a glutton for punishment if you will, but when a high-profile artist puts out an album that is more talked about due to the...

Pros: The CD case is made of hard-wearing, durable plastic.
Cons: An album with a personality factor of zero.

Remember those school essays you used to dash off ten minutes before they were due to be collected? Well, here's a double album containing thirty of them, in song.

"Drukqs" has 'Will this do?' written all over it, and NO, it bloody won't. It's...

Pros: Completely unique, very varied, faster than anything you've heard... probably
Cons: Too fast for listening to in the car, intentional painful discordance, and associated headaches

Here goes, the most epic review you've ever seen, of the most odd CD in my collection. it's actually ...

Pros: less focused on hooky melodies and more on evolution of rhythmic and melodic ideas
Cons: stupid fans dont like it, some of the prepared piano pieces sound like garbage

A lot of people REALLY like to complain that this album is "a step backwards" or "not as revolutionary as Aphex Twin's past material", or how it "dissappoints". If the quotations in the last paragraph seem condescending let me assure you, they are. ...

Pros: New material, classic aphex sounds/beats
Cons: Too much - Should be one disc instead of two.

Although it's been five years since the release of Aphex Twin's last full-length release, "Drukqs" makes up for lost time. For those of you who don't know, Aphex Twin is the pseudonym for the eccentric electronic genius, Richard D. James:...

Pros: Different. Strange sounds, melodies and piano.
Cons: Some tracks like Gwely Mermans and Gwarek2 are just... filler.

OK, maybe you were expecting "Selected Ambient Works Volume 3". Or maybe "...i still care because you do." But your wrong. Well, this album doesn't follow the past of Aphex Twin and Richard James' ability to make every new album sound different. It's...