Girl/Boy

Funny stuff - you get some half finished scraps that never made it to the Richard D. James album and you even get to hear (I presume it's him) him sing - you've gotta love milkman!

Since its recent inception as popular music, Electronica has been accused of lacking "soul" and feeling. While this can be said of many works within the genre, many stand out as fully developed pieces of music (containing the aformentioned soul and feeling, as well as depth, complexity and overall musicality.)Richard D. James as Aphex Twin has accomplished this to stirring a affect. "Girl Boy" may be the most beautiful electronia song ever constructed. It is a fully developed symphony; a euphonimous epic (while never being pretentious) tune, open to differing interpretation. The song in itself is reason enough to like this E.P. Beyond "Boy Girl," "Beetles" is quick striking; though in a rather simplistic manner; as well. "In Keys" is a typically hyper Aphex Twin--something more reminiscient of his most mainstream hit "Come To Daddy."Still, all this means nothing when "Girl Boy" is the opening track. The piece is simply magnificent--one of electronica musics' entrys into the realm of all-time masterpieces of music.

I ordered this CD last week mainly because of Girl/Boy Song, since I think that is one of the best electronica songs ever created in terms of depth and feeling, however, the rest of the CD leaves alot of room for improvement. The average length of the rest of the songs are about 1:30, so its not exactly extended listening. Also, Im a big fan of Twin, but it doesnt sound like he is even tryin with these songs. I honestly believe he threw in the other 5 songs from scraps he found lying around....In the end, half decent because of Girl/Boy the rest is crap.

I bought this CD for the Girl-Boy song I heard on the radio. I found that song to be very novel and quite marvelous at the time for its marriage of breakbeat electronica with classical string instrumentation. The production on it is not the best, though. You can't up the bass to listen to the break-beats with any force without having the orchestral bass strings overpoweringly-thumbing out too buzzy-like. Well, this song lost its gloss pretty quickly for me. I think it's an interesting electronic novelty song now. I have since sold this EP to the resale shop. The rest of this CD sounded like an attempt to be a sort of electro version of They Might Be Giants. Mildly amusing at times, for the most part Mr. James didn't seem to hit the mark. I agree, these short tunes with his whimsically innocent vocals DO sound like scraps of sillyness he dug out from bits of crumpled paper perhaps lying around his floor. Probably an EP for fans only, but not essential for me.

1996年8月19日リリース。エイフェックス・ツイン(Aphex Twin)こと、リチャード・D・ジェームス（Richard David James、1971年8月18日 - ）の『第ニ人格』=Aphex Twinの名によるEPである。このEPで注目すべきは、リチャード・D・ジェームスが初めて『作詞』を手がけた『Milkman』だろう。曲としてもこの曲が一番光っている。注目の歌詞はこう歌っているようだ。I wish the milk man would deliver my milk, in the morningI wish the milk man would deliver my milk, when I'm yawningI wish the milk man would deliver my milk, in the morningI wish the milk man would deliver my milk, when I'm yawningI wish the milk man would deliver my milk, in the morningI wish the milk man would deliver my milk, when I'm yawningI wish the milk man would deliver my milk, in the morningI wish the milk man would deliver my milk, when I'm yawningI would like some milk from the milk man's wife's titsI would like some milk from the milk man's wife's titsI would like some milk from the milk man's wife's titsI would like some milk from the milk man's wife's titsI would like some milk from the milk man's wife's titsI would like some milk from the milk man's wife's tits・・・歌詞も壊れているなぁ。ジャケットは、死産で生まれた彼の兄、『Richard James』の墓の写真である。色々なものがAphex Twinを形作っているのを感じる。