Cat: WARPCD 365. Rel: 2 Oct 23
Experimental/Electronic
Track 1. Elseware |
Track 2. Again |
Track 3. World Outside |
Track 4. Krumville |
Track 5. Locrian Midwest |
Track 6. Plastic Antique |
Track 7. Gray Subviolet |
Track 8. The Body Trail |
Track 9. Nightmare Paint |
Track 10. Memories Of Music |
Track 11. On An Axis |
Track 12. Ubiquity Road |
Track 13. A Barely Lit Path |
Since the release of his last album as Oneohtrix Point Never in 2020, Daniel Lopatin has kept himself busy. Yet for all the high-profile projects - scoring films, producing other artists albums and conjuring up The Weeknd's 2021 half-time show - fans have missed his solo work. Again, his 14th (we think) solo album, is therefore not only big news, but also a pleasingly grandiose conceptual affair - a musical "speculative autobiography" which reportedly imagines "what might have been". Musically, it's typically adventurous, constantly shifting between sounds, styles and instrumental textures; one minute you're hearing star-fall electronics mixed with choirs of children, the next neo-trance style riffs mixed with luscious strings or cinematic style orchestration. Like much of Lopatin's work, it inhibits its' own musical world, and there are very few artists capable of achieving that.