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
flappy wuz right, there are some near straight up pop songs on here.
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Friday, 25 May 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
Went to that show last night. To me its like the idm version of The Wall. The feelings I got from it were Games go to the 90's with some classic OPN elements thrown in. There were moments for me that called back to Enigma, heard some moments of MBV guitars, Chris de Burgh-y beats. Also, a lot of those ballads were very Bon Iver-ish jams. I dug it tough, look forward to hearing the recorded versions. The Prurient inflating garbage bag stuff was a highlight.
― gman59, Friday, 25 May 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
on first listen this is a v. good album and maybe the most emotionally resonant thing he's done since Replica.
jealous of everyone seeing these Myriad shows
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Friday, 25 May 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
Gman sellin it. Sounds boss
― calstars, Friday, 25 May 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
a friend of mine went to the show last night too and he hated it. said Lopatin has diluted basically everything that made his work resonant and interesting, also that he'd never seen a drummer play so much and add so little. FWIW
― flappy bird, Friday, 25 May 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
flappy’s friend otm
and the 7pm armory show didn’t even get the inflatable sandworms
― nikola, Saturday, 26 May 2018 01:57 (five years ago) link
Regardless of how I'll feel about this when I eventually hear it, these descriptions you guys are dropping are some kind of ridiculous. Looking forward to this one.
― octobeard, Saturday, 26 May 2018 06:49 (five years ago) link
Haven’t seen the show but the album is legit great. Don’t get why people want a sequel to their favorite OPN album. His entire thing is Moving On.He’s still on fire.
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Saturday, 26 May 2018 08:00 (five years ago) link
The little accents of Prurient on this are so good.
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Saturday, 26 May 2018 08:14 (five years ago) link
Yeah moments of maybe getting perilously close to pomposity or overblowness but ... idk, it ruled. it was like a replicant Peter Gabriel or something. way too pretty at times (purposefully of course) but backgrounded by a sort of deep space infinite coldness
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Saturday, 26 May 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
did I mention show ended w/ a bill fay cover? that was wonderful
the never ending happening
― nikola, Sunday, 27 May 2018 04:02 (five years ago) link
Haven’t seen the show but the album is legit great. Don’t get why people want a sequel to their favorite OPN album. His entire thing is Moving On.
He’s still on fire.
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Saturday, May 26, 2018 4:00 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I don't and I doubt my friend does either, just not digging it. But I still haven't heard the album and hope to be surprised.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 27 May 2018 04:53 (five years ago) link
Black Snow sounds like garbage
― cr.ht (crüt), Sunday, 27 May 2018 05:04 (five years ago) link
People who have seen the Myriad live show: Is it music from Age Of? Mix of new and old? Something else? I'm reviewing it, so would love to know just a tiny bit of what to expect.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 27 May 2018 09:53 (five years ago) link
from what I've heard it's the whole new album + old music as an encore
― ufo, Sunday, 27 May 2018 11:15 (five years ago) link
myriad is exactly as ufo said — reordered/extended age of, two older tunes as an encore.
the show as a presentation was not really engaging, i bet soundboard recording sounds fantastic.
i tried sequencing age of the way it was played live, and i think it flows better:
prologue:age of
ecco:still stuffraycats
harvest:toys 2babylonmanifold
excess:we'll take itthe stationmyriad.industries (in lieu of live track titled love in the time of lexapro)
bondage:warningsameblack snowlast known image
epilogue:never ending happening (sequencing the bill fay original works perfectly)
― nikola, Sunday, 27 May 2018 13:45 (five years ago) link
Anohni shines
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Sunday, 27 May 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
I don’t know where that Anohni slice came from but tru too
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Sunday, 27 May 2018 14:02 (five years ago) link
I met Prurient/Dominick at Maryland Deathfest and totally dorked out with him.
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Monday, 28 May 2018 06:24 (five years ago) link
Was expecting someone more aloof and dark but he was super stoked that I recognized him and we talked about the OPN record. Said Daniel’s got a legit vision for things and he was impressed by it all. So weird to stumble into that tonight.
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Monday, 28 May 2018 06:43 (five years ago) link
This was cool, but probably not that fit for the festival setting. Grizzly Bear sounded loud and pretty good in the distance throughout the whole set, and a lot of the audience had clearly just wandered in and was VERY confused by it all. But I kinda love the album and the whole concept of it, and Black Snow / Babylon sounds great live.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 31 May 2018 23:28 (five years ago) link
maybe i'm just not in the right mindset but i didn't enjoy Age Of at all. i'll listen again. But i never really figured out GoD either. it's a bummer because i was totally on board with everything through R Plus Seven
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Saturday, 2 June 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
There's some similarities with GoD, but this new album is a lot more chill. I think I like it better because I'm not getting Skrillex vibes off any of the songs. Still prefer R+7 and Good Time soundtrack though.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 3 June 2018 03:14 (five years ago) link
I keep forgetting about the Good Time soundtrack, which I never bought and never listened to outside of what's in the movie, which I loved. Don't know why - maybe I was tired of him after GOD, or at least not as eager to preorder the LP or even ever get around to listening to the full soundtrack. I'm about to listen to Age Of for the first time with a totally open & optimistic mind.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 3 June 2018 03:37 (five years ago) link
I know I sound like a broken record, but that soundtrack is really great, in part because it avoids some of the more annoying aspects of GoD and has a very consistent vibe.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 3 June 2018 03:46 (five years ago) link
Really happy to be proven wrong. Age Of is awesome. Much better than GOD, he's doing something new, not a retread but a finely executed synthesis of many things he's done on previous albums, all while continuing to expand his sonic palette, with more acoustic instruments than ever. Too early to say "not as good as Replica, not as good as R+7." It might be better.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 3 June 2018 04:52 (five years ago) link
I'm not ready to go that far, but it is really good
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 3 June 2018 05:04 (five years ago) link
obviously I disagree and find this a slightly frustrating step back from the roiling brilliance of GoD
― imago, Sunday, 3 June 2018 13:05 (five years ago) link
this is DeepMind Sings the Blues
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Sunday, 3 June 2018 23:42 (five years ago) link
and it rules
otm
― flappy bird, Sunday, 3 June 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
yeah this isn't for me at all, i much prefer the abstract beauty of replica/r+7 to this grotesque collage
― ufo, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 06:03 (five years ago) link
haven't heard the album yet but saw him play what I assume was all stuff from it at primavera. he's definitely been getting funnier and there were absurd moments that made me lol. part of me wonders if he'll ever top the simple perfection of the nobody here rainbow road video. but I like how much drama and intensity there is to this stuff, how ugly some of it is. he is still developing his ear for bathos and he moves through very stark changes in tone surprisingly smoothly and organically, gestures undermining what's gone before (visuals helped with this too: grandiose organ alongside some pictures of sinks &c.). felt like a bracing dip in a plunge pool
― ogmor, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 08:49 (five years ago) link
couldn't resist thinking this is the remedial vibe harsh ppl don't know they need
― ogmor, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 08:51 (five years ago) link
think this album is p cool, really like "same"but can't see myself relistening to it in a few years
― nxd, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 09:31 (five years ago) link