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{{Short description|1997 EP/mini-album by Aphex Twin}}
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{{Infobox album
| name         = Come to Daddy
| type         = EP
| longtype     = / [[mini-album]]
| artist       = [[Aphex Twin]]
| cover        = Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy.png
| alt          = 
| released     = {{Start date|1997|10|06|df=y}}
| recorded     = 
| venue        = 
| studio       = 
| genre        = *[[Intelligent dance music|IDM]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bemis |first1=Alec |title=The Madman of Electronica |url=https://slate.com/culture/2003/05/aphex-twin-the-madman-of-electronica.amp |website=Slate |accessdate=8 September 2019}}</ref>
*[[drum and bass]]<ref name="Pitchfork"/>
*[[drill 'n' bass]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=MCGillevray |first1=Becky |title=The Soft Side of Aphex Twin |url=https://www.keymag.co.uk/features/the-soft-side-of-aphex-twin |website=KEYMAG |access-date=6 October 2021}}</ref>
| length       = {{Duration|m=33|s=22}}
| label        = [[Warp Records|Warp]]
| producer     = Aphex Twin {{a.k.a.}} Richard D. James
| chronology   = [[Aphex Twin|Richard D. James]]
| prev_title   = [[Analogue Bubblebath 3.1]]
| prev_year    = 1997
| next_title   = [[Compilation (Caustic Window album)|Caustic Window Compilation]]
| next_year    = 1998
| misc         = {{Singles
 | name        = Come to Daddy
 | type        = EP
 | single1     = [[Come to Daddy (song)|Come to Daddy]]
 | single1date = 6 October 1997
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r317420}}</ref>
| rev2      = Almost Cool
| rev2score = 8/10<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.almostcool.org/mr/22/ |title=Almost Cool review |access-date=28 January 2012 |archive-date=10 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310072729/http://www.almostcool.org/mr/22/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| rev3      = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev3score = 7.2/10<ref name="Pitchfork"/>
| rev4 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Cross">{{cite book|last=Cross|first=Charles R.|author-link=Charles R. Cross|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]]|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|chapter=Aphex Twin|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/21 21]}}</ref>
| rev5      = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev5score = 7/10<ref>1/98, p. 116</ref>
}}

'''''Come to Daddy''''' is an [[Extended play|EP]]/[[mini-album]] by the British [[electronic music]] artist [[Aphex Twin]]. The EP's lead single, and the first track on the EP, "[[Come to Daddy (song)|Come to Daddy]] (Pappy Mix)"—often simply called "Come to Daddy"—is one of Aphex Twin's best-known songs; it peaked at number 36 on the [[UK Singles Chart]].<ref name=rs>{{cite encyclopedia |editor=George-Warren, Holly and Patricia Romanowski |encyclopedia=The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll |title=Aphex Twin|year=2005 |publisher=Fireside|location=[[New York, New York]] |isbn= 978-0-7432-9201-6 |page=24}}</ref>

==Composition==
''Come to Daddy'' has been described as featuring [[drum and bass]] beats throughout.<ref name="Pitchfork">{{cite web|url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/a/aphex-twin/come-to-daddy.shtml |title=Aphex Twin: Come to Daddy: Pitchfork Review |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=1999 |author=Schreiber, Ryan |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010124115900/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/a/aphex-twin/come-to-daddy.shtml |archivedate=24 January 2001 |accessdate=12 September 2016}}</ref> Each mix of "Come to Daddy" is seemingly unrelated, with the "Little Lord Faulteroy" and "Mummy" mixes bearing no noticeable resemblance to the original "Pappy" mix. "To Cure a Weakling Child (Contour Regard)" is a remix of the song "To Cure a Weakling Child" from ''[[Richard D. James Album]]''. Six of ''Come to Daddy''{{'s}} eight tracks feature vocals.

According to Sean Booth of [[Autechre]], James' track "Bucephalus Bouncing Ball" is a reaction to their track "[[Peel Session (Autechre EP)|Drane]]", to which they then replied with the track "[[LP5|Drane2]]".<ref>{{cite web|last=Booth|first=Sean|title=AAA – Ask Autechre Anything – Sean and Rob on WATMM! – Page 109|date=2 November 2013 |url=http://forum.watmm.com/topic/81109-aaa-ask-autechre-anything-sean-and-rob-on-watmm/?p=2087751|publisher=WATMM|accessdate=10 November 2013}}</ref>

==Packaging==
''Come to Daddy''{{'s}} packaging features stark black letters against a white background. All the information, track listings and lyrics are printed the same way, and only two images are present, both photographed by Stefan DeBatselier and digitally altered by [[Chris Cunningham]], using James' face on children. James has used his likeness as the artwork on five of his releases: The ''[[...I Care Because You Do]]'' and ''[[Richard D. James Album]]'' albums, ''[[Donkey Rhubarb (EP)|Donkey Rhubarb]]'', ''Come to Daddy'' and the "[[Windowlicker]]" single.

The cover of the out-of-print second CD, with its white lettering against an orange background, makes reference to the fact that "To Cure a Weakling Child" had been used in a television advertisement for [[Orange SA|Orange]]. However, the advertisement used an edit of the album version, whilst the version that appears on the EP is the radically different "Contour Regard" mix.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Aphex Twin (Music) |url=https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/AphexTwin}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=May 2025}}

==Track listing==
All tracks written, produced and engineered by [[Aphex Twin|Richard D. James]].

{{Track listing
| title1 = [[Come to Daddy (song)|Come to Daddy]]
| note1 = Pappy [[Audio mixing (recorded music)|mix]]
| length1 = 4:22
| title2 = Flim
| length2 = 2:57
| title3 = Come to Daddy
| note3 = Little Lord Faulteroy mix
| length3 = 3:50
| title4 = Bucephalus Bouncing Ball
| length4 = 5:44
| title5 = To Cure a Weakling Child
| note5 = Contour Regard
| length5 = 5:10
| title6 = Funny Little Man
| length6 = 3:58
| title7 = Come to Daddy
| note7 = Mummy mix
| length7 = 4:24
| title8 = IZ-US
| length8 = 2:57
| total_length = 33:22
}}

{{Track listing
| headline = 2017 re-release bonus tracks
| title9 = forgotten life path
| length9 = 2:28
| title10 = bank lullaby
| length10 = 1:49
| title11 = 28 organ 1.1 [ru,ec,+9]
| length11 = 6:40
| total_length = 44:17
}}

All vinyl editions of ''Come to Daddy'' (excluding a promotional double LP limited to 500 copies) exclude tracks 5–8.

The tracks were originally released on two separate CDs, WAP94CD<ref>{{Cite web |title=Come To Daddy |url=https://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/project/come-to-daddy-remix-cd |access-date=2025-05-29 |website=The Designers Republic™ |language=en-GB}}</ref> and WAP94CDR, with the first four tracks on the former and the rest on the latter. These have since been replaced by one EP containing all eight tracks (WAP94CDX).{{fact|date=August 2022}}

==Personnel==
*[[Aphex Twin]] – vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, piano, drum machine, percussion
*[[Chris Cunningham]] – images
*Stefan de Batselier – photography

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Chart (1997)
! Peak<br>Position
|-
{{Album chart|BillboardHeatseekers|37|artist=Aphex Twin|rowheader=true|accessdate=26 September 2018}}
|}

==Certifications==
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{{certification Table Entry|type=album|region=United Kingdom|artist=Aphex Twin|title=Come to Daddy|award=Silver|certyear=2013|relyear=1997|id=9310-2691-2|access-date=13 February 2021}}
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==References==
{{Reflist}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Evans |first=Nathan |date=25 October 2019 |title=The Soft Side of Aphex Twin |url=https://www.keymag.co.uk/features/the-soft-side-of-aphex-twin |access-date=2025-01-07 |website=KEYMAG |language=en-GB}}</ref>

==External links==
* [http://warp.net/records/releases/aphex-twin/come-to-daddy ''Come To Daddy''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090909031748/http://warp.net/records/releases/aphex-twin/come-to-daddy |date=9 September 2009 }} at the Warp Records website
* [http://www.director-file.com/cunningham/promo/aphex-twincome-to-daddy/ "Come To Daddy"] at the unofficial Chris Cunningham website
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090525061107/http://warp.net/records/aphex-twin/player/video/come-to-daddy The "Come To Daddy" video]

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