Editing Hard Normal Daddy (section)

== Legacy ==
Years after release, ''Hard Normal Daddy'' has been acclaimed by critics. Retrospectively, Sean Cooper of AllMusic gave ''Hard Normal Daddy'' five out of five stars, comparing it favourably to similar releases from the music labels [[Spymania]] and [[Rephlex]] and describing the album as "substantially cleaner and more thought out than previous releases" from those labels.<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/hard-normal-daddy-mw0000017249|title=Hard Normal Daddy – Squarepusher|publisher=AllMusic|last=Cooper|first=Sean|accessdate=4 July 2013}}</ref> Cooper further praised the album for not "simply relying on the shock value of 'tripping-over-myself' drum programming and light-speed fretless bass noodling."<ref name="allmusic" /> In 2003, Todd Burns of ''[[Stylus Magazine]]'' referred to the album as Squarepusher's "masterpiece" and wrote that Jenkinson "refrains from such mind numbing repetition and put down his most accomplished work to that point."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/on_second_thought/squarepusher-hard-normal-daddy.htm|title=Squarepusher – Hard Normal Daddy – On Second Thought|website=[[Stylus Magazine]]|last=Burns|first=Todd|date=1 September 2003|accessdate=4 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023010613/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/on_second_thought/squarepusher-hard-normal-daddy.htm|archive-date=23 October 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2004's ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]]'', critic [[Douglas Wolk]] wrote that on the album, Jenkinson "either sublimates [his beats] to tunes like 'Cooper's World' that approximate an early-'70s sort of [[jazz-funk|funk-jazz]] hybrid, or makes them carry delirious tracks like 'Chin Hippy' with almost no help".{{sfn|Wolk|2004|p=773}}

Writing in ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'', jazz writer Ken Micallef noted the album for its influence on the drill 'n' bass subgenre and stated that, with ''Feed Me Weird Things'' and ''Hard Normal Daddy'', Jenkinson "did to [[Jungle music|jungle]] what [[Frank Zappa]] did to rock—satirized its excesses with a maze of neurotic, scurrying notes, while adding a nerdy musicality that practically invented a new genre."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YG5YubNw1pgC&pg=PA122|title=Squarepusher: Music Is Rotted One Note|magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|volume=15|issue=1|last=Micallef|first=Ken|date=January 1999|accessdate=12 April 2020|page=122|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> In 2017, ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' placed ''Hard Normal Daddy'' at number 24 on its list of "The 50 Best [[Intelligent dance music|IDM]] Albums of All Time".<ref name="bestidm" />

In 1999, Jenkinson referred to the music on ''Feed Me Weird Things'' and ''Hard Normal Daddy'' as "already beginning to sound a bit... It sort of reminds me of being a bit younger in a way. It's a bit more (of a) naive approach, a bit more fresh. The sound as well. I've gotten better production".<ref name="psf" />