Richard D. James is an album by Aphex Twin, whose real name is Richard David James. This LP – first released in 1996, see’s James begin his study into left-field electronica using software synths and drum machines to produce his sometime unsettling take on modern music.
The album garnered high praise from music critics and was names 40th in Pitchfork Media’s “Top 100 Albums of the 1990s list. It also placed #55 on NME’s “Top 100 Albums of All Time list” in 2003
Reviews of the album were nothing short of stunning too:
“The Richard D. James Album is 43.5 minutes of pure electronic genius” –
Pitchfork
“James has turned inward for inspiration, painting aural pictures of real and
imagined scenes from his West Country childhood.“ – Chicago Sun-Times
"combining jolting beats, pristine melodic fragments and random noises into
elegant – if at times unnerving – futuristic pop”. –
Rolling Stone
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