I'm excited for his visit to Austin in a few months
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 15 July 2023 22:08 (nine months ago) link
New album coming in September
Again pic.twitter.com/idNqb8VYqA— oneohtrix point never (@0PN) August 23, 2023
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 15:35 (eight months ago) link
stoked
― nxd, Thursday, 24 August 2023 14:38 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aArXuUaIWWo
more liek oneohstrings point heaven
― oatly carmichael (m bison), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 02:02 (eight months ago) link
interesting
― flopson, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 06:31 (eight months ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/02/the-emotionally-haunted-electronic-music-of-oneohtrix-point-never
― fpsa, Thursday, 28 September 2023 18:23 (seven months ago) link
The album features contributions from Jim O’Rourke and Lee Ranaldo
!!
― J. Sam, Thursday, 28 September 2023 21:34 (seven months ago) link
fuuuuuck yes
― oatly carmichael (m bison), Thursday, 28 September 2023 23:36 (seven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcCWAqoiSXI
― what you say is true but by no means (lukas), Friday, 29 September 2023 01:22 (seven months ago) link
somehow did not know about this until just this moment
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 29 September 2023 01:32 (seven months ago) link
This and Laurel Halo's new one are excellent.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 29 September 2023 20:27 (seven months ago) link
I've had this on in the background all day. It's quite good. I like the jazz fusion touches.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 29 September 2023 20:29 (seven months ago) link
i'm liking this more than anything he's done in a very long time
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 29 September 2023 21:18 (seven months ago) link
Yeah. Had it playing in the background while doing stuff cuz I Am Behind On Things, eventually realized I had to sit down and listen properly.
― what you say is true but by no means (lukas), Friday, 29 September 2023 22:50 (seven months ago) link
an unexpected lovesliescrushing collab
― adam, Sunday, 1 October 2023 11:53 (seven months ago) link
some of this sounds like he's been listening to John Frusciante's To Record Only Water for Ten Days
― gman59, Monday, 2 October 2023 16:19 (seven months ago) link
finding this kind of maddening tbh
― imago, Monday, 2 October 2023 17:40 (seven months ago) link
he's kind of a total wanker these days?
― imago, Monday, 2 October 2023 17:41 (seven months ago) link
did you press the button with the triangle on it, or the button with the square on it?
― what you say is true but by no means (lukas), Monday, 2 October 2023 17:44 (seven months ago) link
Stylistically? I mean this album is right in his wheelhouse, so I guess he's been a bit of a wanker since day 1.
Loving this btw - finally got to play this through and it's easily his best since Garden of Delete for me. This is really good stuff and has sonic elements of a lot of his recent work, but structured in a way that reminds me a lot of R+7 and GoD, which is probably my favorite era of his. Love the percussive elements on this too - lots of acoustic drums and sounds, which feels like a new element along with the strings.
― octobeard, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 19:21 (seven months ago) link
Memories of Music is like him doing a Campfire Headphase turn or something. I love it!
― octobeard, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 19:23 (seven months ago) link
Do not care for this new one tbh. Kinda boring.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 20:50 (seven months ago) link
i fucking love this record, especially right around “nightmare paint” and “memories of music”
― ivy., Sunday, 8 October 2023 14:24 (six months ago) link
I love Again. Obviously there's a lot going on to fully process after a few listens, but every few minutes it throws out something that hits me right in the feels.
I also basically love everything he's done. It feels like there's a critical consensus building that he's gone off the boil? I think Age Of was an off-ramp for a lot of people, whereas for me it was the moment he went from being an artist I really like to an artist I adore.
― bamboohouses, Monday, 9 October 2023 10:38 (six months ago) link
hadnt kept up with his stuff for a while but liking this one
― ciderpress, Monday, 9 October 2023 15:25 (six months ago) link
Age Of was a huge disappointment after Garden of Delete, and to this day is the only OPN album I haven't bought. Babylon is just truly, truly awful; the only song I really liked was Black Snow.
It's a head scratcher to me, because Love in the Age of Lexapro from later that year is sublime; the title track is among his greatest works imo.
I think Magic OPN got pretty good reviews, and Lopatin is still very much in demand as a producer, so I'm not sure if there really is a critical drop-off? One dud album so far is a pretty good run imo.
― The Ghost Club, Monday, 9 October 2023 20:32 (six months ago) link
Magic was awful, I love Age Of and “Babylon” is a banger
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 9 October 2023 20:40 (six months ago) link
yea I like Magic so it's really only Age Of I don't connect with. dunno if I find it bad just really unmemorable
those two albums maybe gave off the impression that he was leaning more into his weird pop instincts which I think throws a lot of what was so interesting about him by the wayside. also I really don't like hearing him sing.
still some interesting stuff there, just glad his sound is ever evolving
― frogbs, Monday, 9 October 2023 20:46 (six months ago) link
...“Babylon” is a banger
I agree w/ this but only the remake with Alex G.
― Chris L, Monday, 9 October 2023 20:52 (six months ago) link
I don't really see OPN as a 'banger' artist, aside from maybe Sticky Drama.
Babylon is so far from a banger. The melody is syrupy, the vocals are awful and the production is a hot mess. I think it's the only OPN song I actively dislike.
― The Ghost Club, Monday, 9 October 2023 21:13 (six months ago) link
Magic was quite literally a snooze
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 9 October 2023 22:45 (six months ago) link
Haven’t been that disappointed in a record in years
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 9 October 2023 22:46 (six months ago) link
I don't hate Magic, but definitely prefer both the new one and Age Of. Never really warmed up to GoD. I agree with the folks who are hearing echoes of R+7 on Again. He seems to be favoring samples over synths more on this new one than anything he's done since R+7.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 9 October 2023 22:54 (six months ago) link
also just ftr, The Ghost Club, i’m using banger in the sense of “great song,” the way my zoomer students do
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 9 October 2023 22:58 (six months ago) link
I was rewatching The Viewing, the Panos Cosmatos-directed episode from Guillermo del Toro’s anthology series, and realized Lopatin did the music for it
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 9 October 2023 23:08 (six months ago) link
Thanks for the clarification table. I do not understand a lot of Zoomer culture, mainly because I can't get past the fashion. And TikToks are way too frenetic for me to keep up with.
Surprised Magic is getting so much, uh, indifference? I thought the songs were much stronger than Age Of and the synths sounded fantastic.
The new one is slightly weaker from a trad songwriting perspective, but definitely a lot more adventurous when it comes to sound design and offbeat structures. Can def see the R+7 connection, particularly in those synth organ arpeggios on A Barely Lit Path. The AI snippets are a blast.
― The Ghost Club, Monday, 9 October 2023 23:50 (six months ago) link
I understand TikToks but I don’t participate at all— mostly absorb them through Instagram accounts tbhZoomer fashion just seems like any generational thing of remixing older styles and trends, but I get how the particular eras that Zoomers are mining can feel a little dopey
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 00:03 (six months ago) link
Fun fact: these are the promo videos he selected for an overnight music program here on the weekend. (I eventually had to go to bed, but presumably the 50-odd selections up to Weyes Bloods were his.) He was legitimately quite entertaining outlining the merits of Edie Brickell or whatever lol.
https://www.abc.net.au/rage/playlist/saturday-night-7-october-2023-on-abc-tv-/102944674
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 02:07 (six months ago) link
otm, this is the stretch where I went from, "I kinda like this one" to, "I really love this album"
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 23 October 2023 20:03 (six months ago) link
I was pretty enthusiastic about it at first too but the more I relisten the more I realize that most of the stuff I like about it is in the first half. after that I think there are a lot of real ugly stretches, feels like inventing music in your head while you're trying to sleep but it's mostly just obnoxious
still like it better than Age Of which I still barely remember a thing about
― frogbs, Monday, 23 October 2023 20:19 (six months ago) link
I mean yeah, that's a fair criticism.
You're lucky you can barely remember Age Of. The worst parts are permanently etched in my brain. I think I had such high hopes after GoD that I kept relistening, trying not to believe OPN could have got this bad.
Anyway I've spent a lot of time with the new one now and I think it nears his post-Replica creative peaks. Not as engaging or fully formed as R+7 or GoD but that's kinda the point. It's a real grab bag of '90s alt rock, prog, AI uncanniness, and modern classical all smooshed together in inimitable OPN style. Which is either really great or really grating, depending on your mood.
― The Ghost Club, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 01:21 (six months ago) link
I have a lot of respect for artists like him who try to do something different every time out. but with a guy like him whose work is so conceptual at times I feel like it's inevitable that sometimes he just can't capture what's in his head.
giving the new one a try now. so far I can say the shit he pulls on the title track is pretty cruel for anyone who bought the vinyl :)
― frogbs, Thursday, 26 October 2023 02:22 (six months ago) link
oh yeah this is really good. I was a little worried that the good reviews were maybe a function of people not liking the last two much but this one hits a lot of the right buttons. maybe because it's so proggy. also the sounds are so much crisper than they were on the last two - a lot of it has the same lush detuned touch as R + 7. I read a comment somewhere that if R + 7 is like its own little mysterious structure, this is the world that structure is housed in. I can get that because I think this is the 'biggest' album he's done by some amount.
also agree with bamboohouses in how every few minutes there's something really special. there are a lot of very cool moments and hard left turns that I think go beyond what I'd ever expect to hear on an OPN album - like the ending of "On an Axis". and a lot of it is anchored by that familiar Juno sound too. was kinda worried that the length might be a bit much but I think the album gets stronger as it goes. idk I can get why people might think it's boring but I'm fascinated by it
― frogbs, Thursday, 26 October 2023 03:08 (six months ago) link
It kinda sounds whatever if you just let it play in the background, need to pay attention to appreciate it.
― what you say is true but by no means (lukas), Thursday, 26 October 2023 04:10 (six months ago) link
this is alright but feels like it's stitched together from glimpses of better albums? both his best since r+7 and proof that he's long been out of ideas. someone should hire him to make a game soundtrack, he'd be good at that
― ufo, Thursday, 26 October 2023 10:44 (six months ago) link
proof that he's long been out of ideas
I don't know what other than a lot of ideas would compel a person to create a piece of art like this. Each song sounds like it has hundreds of unique samples and modulated and micro-managed like crazy. I wish I had an eighth of his ideas.
― beard papa, Thursday, 26 October 2023 17:19 (six months ago) link
right I mean you could argue this album is an amalgam of everything he's done in some way but I hear plenty of new things in this as well. as lukas said though I do think it's an album you really have to focus on to get a lot out of, and if you're not, it's just kind of odd background noise. I get that criticism, but I'm telling you there is a lot here, more than in anything else i've heard him do really
― frogbs, Thursday, 26 October 2023 17:40 (six months ago) link
I caught him live last night, quite a show! The set spanned his full catalog and even included a couple epic Rifts jams. All the songs seemed to be very thoroughly worked over vs the original recordings, which added a lot. He really showed off his range, lots of different moods and styles, some synth-heavy pieces, some more sample based, a couple beat-focused songs that almost went into straight up techno. His performance made it very clear that his mastery of composition is in a league apart from a lot of other electronic musicians, just non-stop daring use of alien sounds coming together in a very thoughtful and always surprising manner. The highlight of the night was a version of "Sleep Dealer" that interpolated material from Again, with weird melty Soviet animation flowing behind him. One surprise was that he did zero singing. I don't really mind because his vocal tunes are not really my favorite, but it seems like that's been a big focus for him on recent albums. My only sort of complaint is that it was intensely loud, especially the bass frequencies that rattled my ear drums and made me feel almost sea sick at times. I've been to this venue several times, and the massive sound system is always a bit overpowering, but OPN went well beyond that.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 27 October 2023 16:46 (six months ago) link
Did he play any eccojams?
― calstars, Friday, 27 October 2023 18:03 (six months ago) link
nope, I'm pretty sure it was only stuff released as OPN
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 27 October 2023 18:16 (six months ago) link