oneohtrix point never

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?

love these snaps on "black snow"

video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMQJF-7Y2h0

yeah I dunno, not into this at all

Thought the same at first, but warming to it.

Feat. Anohni. Prurient's apparently on the new record too.

"Black Snow lyrics inspired by The Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, published by Time Spiral Press (2015)"

I have never heard of this and it is... something

ccru had a number of notable alumni/associates, not surprised!

there are a few people around here who could probably elaborate on that better than myself

Video > song

cool song

Sounds like the album has several ballads like this

basically the same chord progression as "praying" by kesha lol. i like it though. similar aesthetic to garden of delete, but less agro and more whimsical.

boneohtrix point iver

it reminds me a bit of his music with ford & lopatin. which i enjoy, but listen less frequently than OPN

i keep getting "wolves" vibes, rip kanye

Yeah, "wolves" is also what came to mind.

adore this song

It’s better than anything on GoD

nah, but it is good

Exactly

sticky drama was like my #2 song of that year so it's a high bar

Feel like he’s only a hair or two away from being as bad as Squarepusher at this point. A great shame.

Single sounds like some mopey drake robot shit

oneohtrix post malone

yeah i'm bummed out by all of this

I don't love the track, but I'm willing to check out the album.

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.

For sure

p cool

A bit apprehensive about the CCRU ref, but the track is v. cool. Stoked for the album.

Track is dope. Really come around to it.

Defeated minimalist noise dry throat post apocalyptic “robot drake shit” ballad.

i like this song