Contemporary Reviews: Come to Daddy

Hopefully I’ll get in scans from the usually music press such as NME/Melody maker in the future when i get back up to speed with the scanning, cheers! CMJ New Music Monthly (January 1998) APHEX TWINCome To Daddy – Warp/Sire DATALOG: Released Oct 28.FILE UNDER: High concept electronicaR.I.Y.L: Photek, Luke Vibert, Land Of The Loops It’s hard to imagine what Richard D. James, aka Aphex Twin, was thinking when he made his perversely goof new release Come to Daddy, “I want your soul/I will eat your soul/Aargh,” chants the rapacious shock-metal voice on the opening track, “Come to Daddy, Pappy Mix.” The “Little Lord Faulteroy Mix” of the same song features another of James’s voice-manipulations, a sort of satanic elf that whispers, “Naughty little boy.” Even when he’s not auditioning for Wes Craven, James uses this eight-song mini-LP to explore stylistic extremes. He oscillates between his hard percussive mode, with its obsessively splice buzz ‘n’ bass, and the bubbly, unassuming little…