There are a lot of things that could go wrong with a project like this. The idea is a live band playing note-for-note transcriptions of the music of Aphex Twin, crazy polyrhythms and all. It could easily be too sterile, too transcribed, too soul-less. Luckily this band plays well enough not only to hit all those weird notes and timings, but plays with soul too. Their selections are a little different from what I would choose. An Aphex overview album without "Bucephalous Bouncing Ball," "Vordhosen", or anything at all from "I Care Because You Do" seems pretty lacking to me. But the songs they chose sound great, and at least they included "4", which may be the most representative Aphex track of the lot. I don't know how often most would listen to this album since it's sort of a novelty and really doesn't depart from the original visions very much, but it's still good. Also, it sheds light on what is probably a rarely noticed phenomenon: Aphex's music is very similar to that of the Mothers of Invention.
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