Spokes (album)

Spokes
Studio album by Plaid
Released	20 October 2003 (2003-10-20)
Genre	IDM, electronic, techno
Length	58:43
Label	Warp Records Beat Records (Japan)
Producer	Plaid
Plaid chronology
Double Figure (2001) Spokes (2003) Greedy Baby (2006)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Pitchfork Media	6.2/10 14/11/03
PlayLouder	22/10/03
Stylus	C 31/10/03

Spokes is an album released by Plaid in 2003. Advanced press hinted that it would be a return to the sounds of The Black Dog.

Track listing

Promotions

Warp Records hosted a Flash-based mini-site for Spokes, with abstract graphics like those on the album art. The page featured a five by seven array of spoked wheel-like icons, and previews for six of the album tracks. When the spoke icons were clicked, seemingly random characters in the Spokes font would appear, one for each of the five columns. The first icon clicked would start a background song that was not included in the album, and repeated clicking of icons would display different letters. If the letters AWOTM were displayed by clicking on the spokes, a download link would appear, linking to a ZIP-compressed MP3 file. The MP3 was "Awotm", the same track that was played when the spoke icons were clicked. This track has not been included on any Plaid album to date.

External links

• Mini-site for Spokes at the Wayback Machine (archived February 20, 2006) - hosted by Warp Records
• Spokes at Warp.net
• Japanese edition of Spokes - as listed on Discogs