Aphex Twin’s Drukqs Gets First-Ever Vinyl Reissue

Aphex Twin’s long-out-of-print, 2001 double album Druqks is coming back to vinyl, as well as CD and cassette. The 30-track LP is set for release on all formats on October 30, meaning Aphex Twin’s full catalog is now in print, Warp announced this morning. No bonus material has been added, though a direct-to-consumer 4xLP edition comes with a six-panel poster and AFX logo stencil.

Drukqs heralded the end of a half-decade pause in full-length output from Aphex Twin after the 1996 landmark Richard D. James Album. Initially met with a mixed reception, the record was framed in several reviews as a hard-drive clearout but has somewhat grown in stature in the intervening years, thanks in part to the winding-down of the alias—James’ only subsequent studio album as Aphex Twin, so far, is 2014’s Syro—and also to sleeper hits like “QKThr,” which has entered the Aphex canon via TikTok.