I keep coming back to these songs. I just got tickets to see Aphex Twin in NYC in April. So excited, especially considering I've never seen him live. I was surprised by the negative or luke-warm reviews (at best) the Analord series received at the time, and still annoyed by how these songs are his most disregarded to this day. There's something incredibly warm about them - a return to analog textures after years of computer software he had used in the years of his height from RDJ to drukQs (which in my opinion is his best album to date). They have a level of constraint. Each song is uniquely different from the other, but also contain the same woven texture that evoke a level of emotion and more than anything, a sense of suspense.

I really hope he plays some of these songs in April. I've recently revisited them and have been playing them on shuffle for the past year now and the more I listen to them the more I fall in love with these simplistic (for Aphex Twin at least) rich textures. They're uniquely Analord, but very much Aphex Twin. They stand out and fit someone between, yet far away from, the drum n bass and ambient work he's done. You have songs like Phonatacid, Pissed Up In Se1, and Home Made Polysynth that are so intensely calming and funky. Cilonen, Bodmin 2, AFX Acid 04, Love 7, and 3 Notes Con are probably some of his most "danceable" work he's ever done! Even Analord 158b - with that rich, warm, analog texture that he decided to push to the forefront that make this series really special. Reunion 2, Canticle Drawl, Steppingfilter 101c, Fenix Funk 5, Xmd 5a - I can go on and on.

Am I the only one who thinks this is his best body of work?