30 years on, Darran Anderson revisits Aphex Twin’s first volume of ambient works, and finds an album of musical genius, but also a disarming innocence
One of the most interesting aspects of the vampire myth is the idea of invitation. It’s there in Let the Right One In. It’s there, further back, in Count Dracula’s entreaty to Jonathan Harker, “My Friend ¬– Welcome to the Carpathians. I am anxiously expecting you…” And further again, in 16th century theologian Library Leo Allatius’ De Graecorum hodie quorundam opinationibus where those who respond to the undead’s call at the door face damnation. Part of the ongoing attraction of the vampire myth is that Faustian element of desire and complicity. Who would turn down immortality...
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