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 was a "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 showing Cex murdering a young girl with a steak knife and the comedy sketches that interrupt a few of the tracks.[1]

Release

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

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Pitchfork	6.6/10[2]

The A.V. Club opined, "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."[4]

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.[5]

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

Personnel

Credits adapted from Oops, I Did It Again! booklet.[5]

• Rjyan – songs, pictures
• Richie – pictures
• Lucianne – pictures
• Common Space – art

References

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