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1994 studio album by Aphex Twin
Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Studio album by
Aphex Twin
Released
7 March 1994 (1994-03-07)
Genre
Ambient[1][2]
dark ambient[3][4]
electronic[5][6]
drone[7]
minimalism[8]
Length
156:42 (CD) 166:53 (LP/MC)
Label
Warp
Producer
Richard D. James
Richard D. James chronology
On (1993)
Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994)
GAK (1994)
Aphex Twin album chronology
Selected Ambient Works 85–92 (1992)
Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994)
Classics (1995)
Selected Ambient Works Volume II (abbreviated as SAW II)[9] is the second studio album by Aphex Twin, the pseudonym of the British electronic musician Richard D. James. It was released on 7March 1994 through Warp. Billed as a follow-up to James' debut Selected Ambient Works 85–92, the album differs in sound by being largely beatless ambient music. James said that it was inspired by lucid dreaming, and likened the music to "standing in a power station on acid."[10]
The album reached No. 11 on the UK Albums Chart. Selected Ambient Works Volume II had a mostly positive reception from critics on release and later placed on various best of the decade lists by publications such as Rolling Stone, Spin, and Pitchfork.[11]Volume II is considered to be James' shift from ambient techno to darker ambient music.
In 2016 Pitchfork picked Selected Ambient Works Volume II as the second greatest ambient album of all time, after Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports.
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