Oneohtrix Point Never

Oneohtrix Point Never – Again (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:52 minutes | 659 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warp Records

Daniel Lopatin reclaims the uncanny sorcery of ‘Garden of Delete’ on ‘Again’, evanescing divergent styles into an unashamedly pompous roil of vapor-damaged harpsichord twangs, bombastic synth-prog workouts, damaged emo-pop, computer-controlled avant minimalism and fractal ambience. He’s back.

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Oneohtrix Point Never – Magic Oneohtrix Point Never (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:13 minutes | 930 MB | Genre: Alternative, Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warp Records

The end of 2019 was soundtracked by one of the most unanimously critically acclaimed film scores of recent history, an anxiety-driven joyride paired to the Safdie Brothers’ noir thriller Uncut Gems. Unknowingly, Lopatin captured a universal feeling of dread that cuts even deeper in the current state of world affairs. And now, just as many artists are leaning into a newly discovered darkness as this year closes, Lopatin turns his dial towards a frequency of profound self-awareness on an even deeper journey inwards towards peace. With the backdrop of re-imagined programming for a soft rock-era format that symbolically spans from morning drive into late night hours, Magic Oneohtrix Point Never, the name a reference to a misheard play on words of Boston’s Magic 106.7, is a nostalgic and self-referential career defining body of work, collaging maximalist baroque within atmospheric glitter. Here Lopatin has mastered his own autobiography; an ornate musical double entendre from an artist making the most enlightened music of his career.

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Oneohtrix Point Never – Age Of (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:38 minutes | 457 MB | Genre: Alternative, Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warp

There’s an uncanny quality about Daniel Lopatin’s music as Oneohtrix Point Never, the sense of a half-remembered past arranged in ways that only make it feel further away. Pivoting from the nu-metal memories of Garden of Delete, Age Of—produced in part by electro-soul auteur James Blake—has a compact, almost baroque quality, with touches of medieval music (“The Station,” “Myriad.Industries”), hymns (“Warning”), and pastoral bits of ambience (“Toys 2”), balancing the avant-garde with an instinct for melody and play that have always set Lopatin’s music apart. Most striking—and unexpected—are Lopatin’s forays into conventionally structured, vocal-based songs (“Babylon,” “Black Snow,” featuring ANOHNI), which bring his music to the brink of familiarity without ever settling in.

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Oneohtrix Point Never – Magic Oneohtrix Point Never (Deluxe Edition) (2020/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:58 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warp Records

The end of 2019 was soundtracked by one of the most unanimously critically acclaimed film scores of recent history, an anxiety-driven joyride paired to the Safdie Brothers’ noir thriller Uncut Gems. Unknowingly, Lopatin captured a universal feeling of dread that cuts even deeper in the current state of world affairs. And now, just as many artists are leaning into a newly discovered darkness as this year closes, Lopatin turns his dial towards a frequency of profound self-awareness on an even deeper journey inwards towards peace. With the backdrop of re-imagined programming for a soft rock-era format that symbolically spans from morning drive into late night hours, Magic Oneohtrix Point Never, the name a reference to a misheard play on words of Boston’s Magic 106.7, is a nostalgic and self-referential career defining body of work, collaging maximalist baroque within atmospheric glitter. Here Lopatin has mastered his own autobiography; an ornate musical double entendre from an artist making the most enlightened music of his career.
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