Oops, I Did It Again! (Cex album)

Oops, I Did it Again!
Studio album by Cex
Released October 12, 2001 (2001-10-12)
Genre IDM[1]
Length 55:29
Label Tigerbeat6
Cex chronology
Role Model
(2000)		 Oops, I Did it Again!
(2001)		 Tall, Dark & Handcuffed
(2002)

Oops, I Did it Again! is the third full-length release by Rjyan Kidwell under his alias of Cex. The album was released in 2001 by Tigerbeat6 Records.

Style

Pitchfork Media described the music on Oops, I Did It Again! as Kidwell "trying to incorporate a pretty wide spectrum of influences with the fun IDM that's been the bread and butter of his career this far."[2] Despite the humorous album and song titles, the music on as "series of unaffected breakbeats" and "lazy-night melodies" that were similar to Intelligent Dance Music (IDM) albums of the early 1990s.[3] Exclaim! also noted the humorous tone of the album from the inner sleeve art featuring Cex murdering a young girl with a steak knife and the comedy sketches that interrupt a few tracks.[1]

Release

Oops, I Did it Again! was released by the label Tigerbeat6 on October 12, 2001.[3] It was later released in 2002 by the label Rock Action Records.[4]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Pitchfork Media(6.6/10)[2]

The AV Club opined that "In spite of its loaded name, Oops goes a long way in presenting Cex as a serious artist—or at least a semi-serious one whose comical digressions add up to more than just nihilistic fancy. Beneath song titles like "Florida (Is Shaped Like A Big Droopy Dick For A Reason)" lay uncommonly emotive glitchscapes that mix up the brooding iciness of Autechre with the giddy brashness of Aphex Twin."[5]

Pitchfork referred to the album as "relatively standard IDM fare" and not "particularly riveting".[2] The review noted that the beats on the album were "top notch" but that "Far too much of this record is simply boring. It's a testament to Cex's inherent talent that the most uninteresting and typical aspects of Oops, I Did It Again are also the ones that seem the most forced."[2]

Track listing

Track listing adapted from Oops, I Did It Again! back cover.[6]

  1. "(You're) Off the Food Chain" – 2:04
  2. "Eleven Million Dollars Worth of Bearer Bonds" – 4:44
  3. "Destination: Sexy" – 7:03
  4. "First for Wounds" – 4:51
  5. "I Said It Knowing Full Well I Had No Intention of Doing It" – 3:46
  6. "Texas Menstruates" – 3:38
  7. "It's All About Guilt" – 3:30
  8. "Flex on Cex, Eh" – 3:11
  9. "I Don't Think You Do Sin, Julia" – 4:09
  10. "Florida (Is Shaped Like a Big Droopy Dick for a Reason)" – 5:41
  11. "OD'd on First Base" – 3:06
  12. "Keep Pretending" – 5:43
  13. "Not Trying" – 3:13
  14. "After #4 Matrix Sndtrk. Rob D 'Clubbed to Death'" – 0:50

Credits

Credits adapted from Oops, I Did It Again! booklet.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Lindsay, Cam (December 1, 2001). "Oops, I Did It Again!". Exclaim!. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 LeMay, Matt (April 29, 2002). "Oops, I Did It Again". Pitchfork. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 Bush, John. "Oops, I Did It Again". AllMusic. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
  4. ↑ Bush, John. "Oops, I Did It Again". AllMusic. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
  5. ↑ Battaglia, Andy (March 29, 2002). "Cex: Oops, I Did It Again!". Retrieved September 18, 2015.
  6. 1 2 Oops, I Did It Again! (Liner notes). Cex. Tigerbeat6. 2001.
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