oneohtrix point never

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

https://warp.net/news/oneohtrix-point-never-reveals-full-artwork-for-age-of/

full album art is great. partic the cd.

yeah, it looks fantastic. that's a lot of lyrics! not sure how i feel about that but we'll see

that is pretty sweet.

love the sound waves on the tracklists, border community used to do that

enhance those sound waves! we need to fully recreate the album from these images alone.

that CD looks amazing, holy cow

Lopatin's preferred format. Unsurprisingly. Also comes with a booklet, the LP doesn't.

Might buy my first CD in a decade.

I have a bad feeling about this one, and his trajectory as an artist... Nevertheless looking forward to hearing it soon.

dude's been shedding/gaining fans with each album from Returnal onward. that's been one constant.

I dig the “Ecco” graphic and its presumed reference to eccojams

Ecco harvest excess bondage

I have a bad feeling about this one, and his trajectory as an artist... Nevertheless looking forward to hearing it soon.

― 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.

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...

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

more like it sounds like NIN. or NIN-adjacent. which is pop adjacent. or pop on the spectrum. sort of

HOMIE WHAT THE FUCK

sorry that was too loud

homie, what the fuck

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 ;)

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.

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

i'll listen again

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.

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".

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

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.

I’m an opn neophyte, but Garden captures me in a way his earlier stuff doesn’t, with the exception of Ourobourous of course

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.

Rifts and GOD are the only two that grabbed me

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.

https://soundcloud.com/jasondonervan/sets/oneohtrix-point-never-age-of-preview-samples

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.

Thanks F
Love the 2001 connection

anyone see the show last night?

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.'

I'm hearing him live in a couple of weeks :)

any new yorkers want a couple free tix to the Thursday show?

aaaaaah i just bought one off stubhub like 10 minutes ago. psyched tho!