Single sounds like some mopey drake robot shit
― calstars, Saturday, 28 April 2018 03:02 (six years ago) link
oneohtrix post malone
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 28 April 2018 03:06 (six years ago) link
yeah i'm bummed out by all of this
― flappy bird, Saturday, 28 April 2018 03:49 (six years ago) link
I don't love the track, but I'm willing to check out the album.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 28 April 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link
i'm not a huge fan of his vocoder stylings but i still want to hear it in the context of the rest of the album.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 28 April 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link
For sure
― calstars, Saturday, 28 April 2018 04:01 (six years ago) link
p cool
― flopson, Saturday, 28 April 2018 07:37 (six years ago) link
A bit apprehensive about the CCRU ref, but the track is v. cool. Stoked for the album.
― MikoMcha, Saturday, 28 April 2018 07:58 (six years ago) link
Track is dope. Really come around to it.Defeated minimalist noise dry throat post apocalyptic “robot drake shit” ballad.
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Saturday, 28 April 2018 10:11 (six years ago) link
i like this song
― nxd, Saturday, 28 April 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
https://warp.net/news/oneohtrix-point-never-reveals-full-artwork-for-age-of/
full album art is great. partic the cd.
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
yeah, it looks fantastic. that's a lot of lyrics! not sure how i feel about that but we'll see
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
that is pretty sweet.
love the sound waves on the tracklists, border community used to do that
― brimstead, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
enhance those sound waves! we need to fully recreate the album from these images alone.
― Datapod, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
that CD looks amazing, holy cow
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
Lopatin's preferred format. Unsurprisingly. Also comes with a booklet, the LP doesn't.
Might buy my first CD in a decade.
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 19:16 (six years ago) link
I have a bad feeling about this one, and his trajectory as an artist... Nevertheless looking forward to hearing it soon.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 20:06 (six years ago) link
dude's been shedding/gaining fans with each album from Returnal onward. that's been one constant.
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
I dig the “Ecco” graphic and its presumed reference to eccojams
― calstars, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
Ecco harvest excess bondage
― calstars, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
― flappy bird, Tuesday, May 15, 2018 10:06 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Come on Flappy you can't just drop this and not say *why* you feel bad about his "trajectory" as an artist.. Why the bad hunch?
Artwork is very special.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
I think I said some stuff upthread. Just doesn't seem conceptually interesting or emotionally engaging - the singles, at least. Like I've said before the beautiful thing about Replica and R Plus Seven are that they are brilliant conceptually/intellectually AND the music is utterly original and moving. Garden of Delete was a cool concept but it's not an enjoyable listen for me. This, I just don't know what to make of. Sounds like boring pop music. Definitely not going to ditch him though, and I can't wait to hear the record. I just... it's an awful thing when an artist you love and whose work you find compelling and exciting in ways that are ineffable or very difficult to describe... starts making work that's almost a parody or cliche take on what they've done before...
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 03:13 (five years ago) link
Sounds like boring pop music.
what up it's your boy post malone jammin out to the only station that's bumpin the latest 0pn noise dirge, mix 96.1
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 03:16 (five years ago) link
more like it sounds like NIN. or NIN-adjacent. which is pop adjacent. or pop on the spectrum. sort of
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 03:37 (five years ago) link
HOMIE WHAT THE FUCK
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 04:52 (five years ago) link
sorry that was too loud
homie, what the fuck
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 04:53 (five years ago) link
Like I've said before the beautiful thing about Replica and R Plus Seven are that they are brilliant conceptually/intellectually AND the music is utterly original and moving. Garden of Delete was a cool concept but it's not an enjoyable listen for me. This, I just don't know what to make of. Sounds like boring pop music.
I'd say Replica and R+7 are 'warmer' album, and Garden of Delete suddenly turned out to be a lot cooler. If that is something akin to what you mean by the music being moving next to conceptual, I can see that. I'm going to have to draw a line at 'sounds like boring pop music' though, and (quietly) echo m bison ;)
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 07:15 (five years ago) link
it's pop on the spectrum. like "My Girls," or "Ping Pong."
I'd say Replica and R+7 are 'warmer' album, and Garden of Delete suddenly turned out to be a lot cooler. If that is something akin to what you mean by the music being moving next to conceptual, I can see that.
I agree that Replica & R+7 are 'warmer' compared to GOD but that's not what I meant. It's so rare to have a musician that is making progressive, intellectually compelling work that can be mulled over and discussed at length that is also just beautiful music, thesis aside. With those two records Lopatin conveyed some really disturbing stuff about consumerism, technology, and nostalgia where the conceptual underpinnings reinforced the music and vice versa.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
i'll just echo "homie, what the fuck" cuz i'm not hearing NIN or pop (outside of the use of autotune) in that Black Snow single at all
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link
i'll listen again
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
i mean there are lyrics and a melody, but there's way more there pushing against a pop-sensibility than embracing it. parts of it make my physically uncomfortable.
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
or maybe it shouldn't be a embrace/repulse binary, i guess it's fucking with it. but the end result isn't exactly "poppy".
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
btw I have nothing against pop or pop on the spectrum or whatever, I just didn't expect to be bored by a new OPN project. because Replica and R+7 are so singular and strange and truly otherworldly. but I will listen again
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
dang i'll have to try with R+7 again. a couple of tracks aside, i found it about as warm and welcoming as Garden of Delete. just couldn't get into it. HUGE fan of Replica, though.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
I’m an opn neophyte, but Garden captures me in a way his earlier stuff doesn’t, with the exception of Ourobourous of course
― calstars, Thursday, 17 May 2018 00:07 (five years ago) link
I listened to R+7 the other day for the first time in a while and it hit me in a really different way. A lot of what felt cold and alien initially did feel warmer and more... organic? I can get that.
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Thursday, 17 May 2018 00:58 (five years ago) link
Rifts and GOD are the only two that grabbed me
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 17 May 2018 11:04 (five years ago) link
So based on "Black Snow", the new album is going to be less fragmented and more coherent and linearly progressive pieces? If he feels like he's exhausted the deconstruction approach, by all means let him try and fit his compositions in a new context. Doesn't have to be pop music, however I do agree that the single wouldn't be totally out of place in certain current continuums.
― Milton, Thursday, 17 May 2018 13:49 (five years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/jasondonervan/sets/oneohtrix-point-never-age-of-preview-samples
― Datapod, Thursday, 17 May 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link
pretty good interview here
http://thequietus.com/articles/24645-oneohtrix-point-never-age-of-interview
Essentially Google describe the DeepDream algorithms as them assigning a machine the task of learning what a workout weight looked like. It studies every picture of weights it could, but it came back with an error - it created the image of a weight, but along with it was a white arm attached to it, because all of the images of weights on the internet have white arms lifting them. It occurred to me that this is fundamentally a great way to teach ourselves that white history is fucked up.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 13:24 (five years ago) link
Thanks FLove the 2001 connection
― calstars, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
anyone see the show last night?
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
Good interview, love the idea of EccoJams being about 'float[ing] listlessly in this digital ether just wanting to express things, but being unable to.'
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link
I'm hearing him live in a couple of weeks :)
any new yorkers want a couple free tix to the Thursday show?
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
aaaaaah i just bought one off stubhub like 10 minutes ago. psyched tho!
― adam, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
tickets allocated
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
Age Of is out in the wild. Haven't investigated yet.
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Friday, 25 May 2018 12:47 (five years ago) link
i don't really know what to make of it yet except that it's beautiful and grotesque in equal measure, pushed to more of an extreme than he usually does
― ufo, Friday, 25 May 2018 13:54 (five years ago) link
show last night was great. eli keszler, kelly moran, gatekeeper dude, prurient, kelsey lu. the dancers from the "black snow" video, mysterious inflating garbage bag things, sculptures suspended from the ceiling as a robot voice said scary stuff, video projections very much in keeping with the whole vibe.
the new stuff sounded great in context, looking forward to listening again. a lot of the vocal stuff was very good, surprisingly.
the album cover's adult swim vibe kinda turned me off but "black snow" really grew on me and after last night i am on board with what this dude is doing.
― adam, Friday, 25 May 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link