Japan Edition
2LP, Limited Edition, Reissue
2LP, Limited Edition, Reissue
Warp (2025) JP
Aphex Twin's third studio album, originally released in 1995, is regarded as Richard D. James' greatest work under his Aphex Twin guise; whereas 'Selected Ambient Works Vol. II' consummated Aphex Twin's analogue era, '...I Care Because You Do' was the beginning of more intricate, lengthy, abstract digital compositions. Quite different to the previous, familiar sound of ambient music and techno.
Anagrams for tracks titles ('The Waxen Pith', 'Wet Tip Hen Ax', 'Next Heap With' etc.); in-jokes and innuendos; samples of dialogue from ponographic films and other eccentric production nuances fold into distorted hip-hop style beats and tangled drum loops. '.... I Care Because You Do' captures a new era of bracing sonic experimentation (a self portrait on the cover appears to endorse this change), yet maintaining levels of familiar melancholy and aggression in an equal measure.
Tracklist
A1 Acrid Avid Jam Shred
A2 The Waxen Pith
A3 Wax The Nip
B1 Icct Hedral
B2 Ventolin (Video Edit)
B3 Come On You Slags!
C1 Start As You Mean To Go On
C2 Wet Tip Hen Ax
C3 Mookid
D1 Alberto Balsalm
D2 Cow Cud Is A Twin
D3 Next Heap With