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]
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.
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