Oops, I Did It Again! (Cex album)
Oops, I Did it Again! | ||||
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Released | October 12, 2001 | |||
Genre | IDM[1] | |||
Length | 55:29 | |||
Label | Tigerbeat6 | |||
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Oops, I Did it Again! is the third full-length release by Rjyan Kidwell under his alias of Cex. The album was released in 2001 by Tigerbeat6 Records.
Style
Pitchfork Media described the music on Oops, I Did It Again! as Kidwell "trying to incorporate a pretty wide spectrum of influences with the fun IDM that's been the bread and butter of his career this far".[2] Despite the humorous album and song titles, the music was a "series of unaffected breakbeats" and "lazy-night melodies" that were similar to intelligent dance music (IDM) albums of the early 1990s.[3] Exclaim! also noted the humorous tone of the album from the inner sleeve art showing Cex murdering a young girl with a steak knife and the comedy sketches that interrupt a few of the tracks.[1]
Release
Oops, I Did it Again! was released by the Tigerbeat6 label on October 12, 2001.[3] It was later released in 2002 by the label Rock Action Records.[3]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
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Pitchfork Media | (6.6/10)[2] |
The A.V. Club opined, "In spite of its loaded name, Oops goes a long way in presenting Cex as a serious artist—or at least a semi-serious one whose comical digressions add up to more than just nihilistic fancy. Beneath song titles like "Florida (Is Shaped Like A Big Droopy Dick For A Reason)" lay uncommonly emotive glitchscapes that mix up the brooding iciness of Autechre with the giddy brashness of Aphex Twin."[4]
Pitchfork referred to the album as "relatively standard IDM fare" and not "particularly riveting".[2] The review noted that the beats on the album were "top notch" but that "Far too much of this record is simply boring. It's a testament to Cex's inherent talent that the most uninteresting and typical aspects of Oops, I Did It Again are also the ones that seem the most forced."[2]
Track listing
Track listing adapted from Oops, I Did It Again! back cover.[5]
- "(You're) Off the Food Chain" – 2:04
- "Eleven Million Dollars Worth of Bearer Bonds" – 4:44
- "Destination: Sexy" – 7:03
- "First for Wounds" – 4:51
- "I Said It Knowing Full Well I Had No Intention of Doing It" – 3:46
- "Texas Menstruates" – 3:38
- "It's All About Guilt" – 3:30
- "Flex on Cex, Eh" – 3:11
- "I Don't Think You Do Sin, Julia" – 4:09
- "Florida (Is Shaped Like a Big Droopy Dick for a Reason)" – 5:41
- "OD'd on First Base" – 3:06
- "Keep Pretending" – 5:43
- "Not Trying" – 3:13
- "After #4 Matrix Sndtrk. Rob D 'Clubbed to Death'" – 0:50
Personnel
Credits adapted from Oops, I Did It Again! booklet.[5]
- Rjyan – songs, pictures
- Richie – pictures
- Lucianne – pictures
- Common Space – art
References
- ^ a b Lindsay, Cam (December 1, 2001). "Oops, I Did It Again!". Exclaim!. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
- ^ a b c d LeMay, Matt (April 29, 2002). "Oops, I Did It Again". Pitchfork. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
- ^ a b c d Bush, John. "Oops, I Did It Again". AllMusic. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
- ^ Battaglia, Andy (March 29, 2002). "Cex: Oops, I Did It Again!". The A.V. Club. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
- ^ a b Oops, I Did It Again! (liner notes). Cex. Tigerbeat6. 2001.
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