oneohtrix point never

earliest releases were evocative by managing to be sort of blank and ambiguous ("zones without people")

but i feel like he's getting increasingly ham-fisted in his attempts at creating *meaning*

cover is very trenchant

The line between critiquing techno-fetishism and just straight up techno-fetishism does feel increasingly nonexistent in 'art these days'

I don't think he can ever top R Plus Seven in this regard

i kinda think that cover art is passed it's sell-by date, but looking forward to this nonetheless. the art/promo for his MYRIAD show (or w/ever it was called) was pretty dope.

http://www.thefader.com/2018/03/22/oneohtrix-point-never-trailer-new-music-myriad

sticky drama video still one of the best this decade, his aesthetics are excellent

I hope this expands on GoD/is an even bigger clusterfuck since that's the first time his music interested me tbh

Surprised by how many people are fed up with him itt tbh

p much with ultros but I did also like R Plus Seven

also the music in the trailer has me hyped

hypesichord

Didn't love GoD, didn't hate it either, but I'm totally up for something new. He doesn't really repeat himself much.

don't love the album cover but the rest of the visuals for the album are dope. esp the typography

that cover rules!

thread seems to indicate we should start filing OPN in the prog / art-rock section instead of electronic

can't he be both

The trailer sounds like R+7 filtered through baroque progressions or something? seems promising. I never really got into GoD, it was a disappointment after how much I loved R+7. Haven't listened to the Good Time soundtrack yet which I probably should get around to

*gasps*

I mean OK, who cares. Are those things still scary in 2018?

xxp

no judgment, just sayinbg

kind of bummed that OPN has resorted to using hot women to sell records

my album artwork prominently features a computer

— OPN (@0PN) April 4, 2018

Still think this is one of the most genuinely disturbing songs & videos of the decade so far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvDzaQOSZ3E

Also garden of delete rules but it is fatiguing, i blame the mastering job tho

― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Wednesday, April 4, 2018 12:16 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think this was intentional. His life show kind of hammers sound at you, too

Cover rules, can’t wait for the album

live show! my typing has gone downhill

i will anticipate this

cover be like "technology is our new religion" DO U SEEEEEE

those are the cool synthwave sounds of oneohtrix shining out of the labtob and those ladies are about to get funky

It does seem weirdly on the nose/obvious for someone who’s done an admirable job of being surprising and ahead of the curve for most of his career.

kind of reminds me of https://img.discogs.com/HYOg4gqQw-xHitglZ07d78Yq2Ww=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2717577-1378584293-8565.jpeg.jpg

i thought the cover was just like, anachronistically adding a laptop to 70s album art. i’m imagining some mbdtfian prog influence. i guess it looks a bit culty.

beats putting ivanka on the cover next to the word complicit i guess

I lost track of OPN after the follow up to the amazing Returnal was kind of bleh. I guess that record was a long time ago now.

Still waiting for a sequel to Channel Pressure, the best thing he ever made.

surely there are a dozen vaporwave albums out there these days that could scratch that itch for you

Shocked at the backlash itt tbh

death to false vaporwave

I lost track of OPN after the follow up to the amazing Returnal was kind of bleh.

um no the follow up was way better

agreed

also xxp, it's really only The Late Great and Sparkle itt who seem to be "over" him as far as I can tell. i'm not crazy about the album art but OPN's still great in my book.

death to false vaporwave

― the late great, Thursday, April 5, 2018 3:21 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

90% of album art I ignore, 10% is incredibly cool

cover is sick wtf

― flappy bird, Wednesday, April 4, 2018 10:17 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yep

I like the cover. The MacBook is past the sell-by date, but is nonetheless still the glowing thing. I like that the happy women are looking above to heavens for the source of light, but sorry: the only source of light is the MacBook, because MacBook ubiquity has been and will be, and if you're waiting for the next thing, it won't; or rather, it will just be another MacBook. (Given how fast everything seems to change all of the time, OS, apps and so on, the fact that the glowing shell has remained so consistent stands out.)

That said, the music in the trailer doesn't move me much on first listen. I couldn't be bothered much with Good Time, and while initially I liked the in-your-faceness of Garden of Delete, I haven't wanted to return to it, partly because of the maximalized sound mentioned above. Now I wonder if Garden of Delete was his New Jersey, though I realize that OPN is not a New Jersey-level artist/seller. Maybe a better comparison is to prog or IDM acts when they seem to sputter or witness exhaustion (Drukqs, Tormato). I wonder if, to the extent that OPN is an artist who spoke to the zeitgeist, he anticipates part of the narrative of his irrelevance by making a joke about zeitgeist and relevance with the no-longer-relevant cover.

Someone in the thread on Simon Reynolds' Retromania felt that the book's more argumentative sections seemed belabored, while the sections on artists like OPN made his uses of retro materials seem vital, new and interesting. But more lately in the same thread, people seem to feel that the exhaustion with retro has passed. Maybe it's also been so normalized that no one cares or can tell the difference. In any case, if the uncanny moment that produced OPN is no longer with us — maybe because various horrors are so much more out in the open — I imagine it places him as an artist in a difficult position.

Now I wonder if Garden of Delete was his New Jersey, though I realize that OPN is not a New Jersey-level artist/seller. Maybe a better comparison is to prog or IDM acts when they seem to sputter or witness exhaustion (Drukqs, Tormato). I wonder if, to the extent that OPN is an artist who spoke to the zeitgeist, he anticipates part of the narrative of his irrelevance by making a joke about zeitgeist and relevance with the no-longer-relevant cover.

this makes me sad and is very possibly otm

hoping it's half as good as drukqs

stoked for this

cover rules, garden of delete rules, videos for problem areas + sticky drama are so good

artist behind the stuff in problem areas is this dude http://www.ratio3.org/artists/takeshi-murata
floppy trombone / mcdonalds cup is a personal fav

stoked for this

cover rules, garden of delete rules, videos for problem areas + sticky drama are so good

This.

Just got tix for the Barbican thing. Although I think I'm more interested in the new record...

tbh GoD was kind of hard for me to crack and i gave up, but i still see him as firing on all creative cylinders right now.

i feel the same way

"he anticipates part of the narrative of his irrelevance by making a joke about zeitgeist and relevance with the no-longer-relevant cover"

oh yeah that's def what's happening ... that's the move that is riiiight at its sell-by date. but who's going to pull it off better than him?