James described the album as being "like standing in a power station on acid" and went on to note that the sounds on record were inspired by lucid dreams, and that upon awaking, he would attempt to re-create the sounds and record them. He claimed to have natural synaesthesia, which contributed to this album.
It reminds me of walking through a small town in the middle of the night, where I am almost to the point of anesthesia from dissociatives. There were several of these nights, and this album most certainly accompanied these walks.
Damn I love this song. I'm revisiting my old favorites this week. Nobody can evoke a specific feeling quite like Aphex Twin. He takes an emotion and distills it to it's elemental components and then splits it's nuclei. This song is warm, haunting, and foreboding all at the same time. Like that feeling you get under a streetlamp at 3am on a warm July night and you're all alone but for the crickets and frogs.....
This is one of those... special tracks. You can't quite put a describing mark on it; lighthearted, melancholic, eerie, firm, floaty. It gives me this lonesome feeling, and my mind wanders to other places - a foggy concrete road, the haze shielding the environments from view, except for the white stripes on the road whose silhouettes are visible through the fog, going off into the distant horizon. There I stand. It's not quite a happy place; but not quite sad either. It's a place for reflection and thinking, for getting that tingly feeling of true isolation - but in a good way. The feeling of chills, of your bowels slowly churning inside you - in a good way. A track that gives so much mental space; both for the track itself and for everything else.
I picture a kind of "pale" corn field in which there's in the middle an albino child with blue eyes on top of a cow, he's looking at me and the cow is looking at the opposite way; there's fog approaching, little by little, the closer it gets, the wider the kid's smile gets, and the cow starts turning her head to my direction. The fog ends up invading the entire field by the end of the song and the duo disappears completely...
GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD
the names derive from the album art of the album. there are a series of photographs taken by richard d. james and plotted in a delphic sort of way across the album art. if you figure out his riddle, the pictures correspond to the tracks of each disk. the names are just rough descriptions of what is shown in the pictures, i.e. stone in focus, domino, grass etc... okay, good.
on the album yes they are all untitled. but people have named the tracks after the images that appear with each song in the lp. so this song has a domino image, hence domino :)
When you and you're mate are walking through the city wild after a night of painting screaming at the 🌙 and you both realize there's no one around and you turn to him walking behind you., but he's frozen motionless not a sound a breath, and you realize you're a man all alone in a deserted city
And I thought of thins song. It was great. But in my hea was problam. It was used the domino FOR THINGS EXCETP MUSIC. I knw tht, bec when I HEARD that sound it WAS the domino...
reminds me of getting my ass kicked by a chick in kindergarten. When I "came to" I heard this song and I didn't by the album for another 15 years. Crazy