Aphex Twin SAW2 Countdown: Track 14 (“Parallel Stripes”)

I am going to do this track - by - track countdown to the release , on February 13 , 2014 , the day prior to Valentine ’s Day , of my book in the estimable 33 1/3 series . It is a love alphabetic character to Aphex Twin ’s record album Selected Ambient Works Volume II , which will mark its twentieth anniversary this yr , less than a month after my book ’s publication . More on my Aphex Twin book atamazon.comandBloomsbury.com . The program is to do this countdown in the reverse guild , from last rails to first . For reference , an former conscription of the insertion is on-line , as isthe book ’s seven - chapter tabular array of contents . The book ’s publisher postedan interview with mewhen I was halfway through the writing process .

There is some irony to doing this countdown since the book is already shipping to folk music who pre - ordered it via an on-line retailer such asAmazon , but the prescribed engagement endure , and that ’s the target — the end date — of this countdown , February 13 . And for what it ’s deserving , while the physical copies are mailing now from retailers , the Kindle version wo n’t turn on until February 13 . Still , the digital interlingual rendition costs less .

As I ’ve notice onTwitter , this course - a - day coming is exactly the opposite of the book ’s approach , which is a aggregation of interrelated , reportage - based essay .

And it ’s great to see it showing up in the great unwashed ’s home :

.@disquiet ’s new book on SAWII is awe-inspiring . If you ’re an Aphex Twin fan you owe it to yourself to pick up a copy!pic.twitter.com / oLuPL2gKrO

— Synk Sentury ( @synksentury)January 31 , 2014

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As mentionedyesterday , the most intense , heartbeat - driven caterpillar track on the album is arguably“Shiny Metal Rods,”and one should be sensitive to the predicament of an individual who listens to the preceding track , “ Parallel Stripes , ” cosy up to the warm embrace of the verbaliser ( or , forbid such a matter , turn up the headphones ) during its lulling static - as - meaning ambiance , and then is collide with with the intensiveness of “ Shiny Metal Rods . ” As I write in the Quran , this track is sine wafture as form , and the wave emerge out of roughness , out of a “ bur of static , ” as I put it , that is the equivalent of a deep-fried radio sign . The track just prior to this is , in perfume , the record album ’s single , and also its literal centerpiece ( track 13 of 25 ) , “ Blue Calx . ” Combined , “ Blue Calx ” ( melody ) , “ Parallel Stripes ” ( sodding ambiance ) , and “ Shiny Metal Rods ” ( minimalist beat ) in just three consecutive tracks tell the story of this record album . More on “ Blue Calx ” tomorrow .

And here it is reversed :

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