Hard Normal Daddy is the second studio album by English electronic musician Tom Jenkinson under the alias Squarepusher, released on 28 April 1997.

Given a camera, Jenkinson took photos of various locations in the town, including sheds where illegal raves were held and the local park, which are depicted in the CD packaging, as well as a run-down gas container that features on the album cover.

In a contemporary review, Muzik critic Rupert Howe praised Hard Normal Daddy as an album of "style, wit and crafty ingenuity", albeit one that "isn't always quite as clever as it would like to think it is".

[11] Writing for NME, Andy Crysell noted Jenkinson's "passion for jazz that separates him from that other most weirdy and beardy of dance warriors" but called the album "schizophrenic", expressing frustration at its "high-velocity experimentation" and perceived emphasis on virtuosity.

"[10] 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.

[13] Writing in 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 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.

[3] In 1999, Jenkinson referred to the music on Feed Me Weird Things and Hard Normal Daddy as "already beginning to sound a bit...