Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
Critic Score
Based on 29 reviews
2013 Ratings: #113 / 1115
Year End Rank: #21
User Score
Based on 972 ratings
2013 Rank: #59
Liked by 126 people
October 1, 2013 / Release Date
LP / Format
Warp / Label
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
The Skinny
A visionary artist at the height of his powers, this is in many ways his most accessible and uplifting work so far.
100
Tiny Mix Tapes

Despite the coded sound files, interactive website, and spellbinding videos, the album exists independently as a case for disjointed representations, cultural citation, and enchanting music.

95
XLR8R

For all of its turbulence and dislocations, R Plus Seven is an astounding thing to behold, a perfectly imperfect and downright breathtaking masterpiece. It firmly establishes—or, more likely, reinforces—its creator’s status as a peerless artist.

91
Pretty Much Amazing

R Plus Seven delves into sound with a precision and clarity that pays tribute to the technical genius that birthed the synthesizer.

90
Beats Per Minute
After fearless reinventions of sound on three consecutive releases, itโ€™s good to know some things never change.
90
Consequence of Sound

The album focuses on discrete melodic moments composed from scratch, a new process for Lopatin that he melds perfectly with old strategies. Tensions rise from textural contrasts, but there’s also raw beauty in R Plus Seven‘s melodies and progressions.

85
The 405

In that Lopatin avoids half measures, his fourth album is business as usual. In almost every other aspect, he breaks new ground, and does so triumphantly.

85
Prefix

R Plus Seven creates a mysterious and isolated sonic environment: one squarely positioned between the two extremes of artificial and organic sound. The elements do not seem in conflict with one another; they are drawn into one another through Lopatin’s mixer to create a cohesive concept.

84
Pitchfork

R Plus Seven doesn’t have quite the disembodied weirdness of Replica, but it’s no less accomplished, another intriguing chapter from an artist whose work remains alive with possibility. 

80
No Ripcord

Lopatin ultimately leaves us with a marvelous instance of artistic clarity. A moment where concept and execution synchronize perfectly and allow us the unique opportunity to experience sound as a purely emotive device.

80
SPIN

Nothing lingers long on Seven, but you can hear just how quickly OPN gobbles up EDM's bass frequencies, the Max-DSP moves of Fennesz, Ryuichi Sakamoto's synthetic silkiness, even the frenetic arpeggios of Glassworks and sampler chops of footwork.

80
AllMusic

For the most part, the album showcases Oneohtrix Point Never's restlessness and ambition in flattering ways; if it's equal parts mystifying and beautiful, it's also a puzzle well worth trying to figure out.

80
PopMatters

R Plus Seven deemphasizes Replica’s sense of walled-off claustrophobia, letting thick puddles of light filter into Lopatin’s lair of sound.

80
musicOMH

R Plus Seven is as singularly compelling as any of his previous releases, but in his desire to transcend glossy hyper pop and introspective electronica into something new and fascinating, Lopatin has delivered a masterful debut for his new label.

80
The Line of Best Fit

This is music with elastic boundaries, that will accommodate the interpretations that you choose to place on it, and bear them with a surprising lightness of touch.

80
Exclaim!

Amidst strong, seismic chords from his trademark "woozy choir" vocals comes an emphatic, melodious organ solo that might have sounded out of place on his previous records. On R Plus Seven, it just sounds like triumph.

80
Clash
Disquieting divinity, duly delivered.
75
Spectrum Culture
Lopatin really showcases his ability to combine experimentation and the establishment of roots within the same track.
70
Drowned in Sound

R Plus Seven can be confusing, jam packed with samples and contrasting elements, but it's never overbearing. At the same time it is hard to put your finger on exactly what is appealing about it.

70
Loud and Quiet

In hiding peaceful gems amid so much sonic crossfire, Lopatin has made perhaps his most curious move yet.

70
Resident Advisor

Lopatin has clearly served notice that he's no longer the man behind Returnal, and it will be interesting to see where he moves from here. But this constant activity makes R Plus Seven anxious and unsettling, and often difficult to immerse yourself within.

70
FACT Magazine

Strangely for an album so heavily peopled with voices (none of them identifiably Lopatin’s), R Plus Seven feels isolated and eerily post-human. Musically it may be Oneohtrix Point Never’s most accessible work yet, but the emotional pull it exerts is minimal.

60
The Needle Drop

Daniel Lopatin's latest full-length sees him stepping away from the extreme sampling that made 2011's Replica so thrilling. Instead, he rests on his passion for tightly sequenced synths, and there are some somewhat engaging results.

60
NME

Whereas his early kosmische-styled material had a strong emotional undertow, his debut for Warp feels a little more arch.

60
Q Magazine
Not exactly immediate, definitely rewarding.
50
Under the Radar

This is the kind of record that will excite bearded experimental aficionados, who are happy to excavate the never-ending sonic crannies that punctuate this avant-garde affair. For this rest of us, these computerised structures are a difficult trip to enjoy. 

knewnie
70

dude that rectangle be fuckin STANDIN there

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this album is weird. this album is a weirdo. this album doesn't fit in, and it doesnt wanna fit in. i have ๐’”๐’๐’Ž๐’† experience with Daniel's work, i enjoy Garden of Delete quite a bit, and that's a weird as hell album too. but i didnt really anticipate how unstructured and rambly R Plus Seven would be. the tracks on this thing dont really have structures that resemble popular songwriting, it's more of one big cohesive piece ... read more

nino21321312312
90

Oneohtrix Point Never is a pretty known figure in the Electronic scene with his 2011 Replica which cooperates a lot of sampling from old commercials to create a dread atmosphere, He also in 2010 created a new sample-based genre called vaporwave with his album Chuck Person’s Eccojams Vol. 1.

R Plus Seven is a project that takes some elements from Replica and reconstructs them into something more abstract and dynamic.
I like new elements in this album like these huge choral segments on ... read more

PixieVT
98

Album swap with @Eptit ! THANKS for the awesome Rec!!

R Plus Seven… The Electronic Oddity. A lift-off towards strange skies, and an ambient bed of stars.
This album revels in the art of the peculiar, an out of place nostalgic sound… like a distant sea under the moonlight, but the water serenades in whispers through humanoid voices. These vocal melodies are strange, glitchy, odd.. but they sound beautiful as well, ethereally calming, and delightfully enchanting.

Our inside ... read more

Owenx33
88

This is probably what my dreams sound like.

buckleylover
75

penis music

Johnathan
78

I like to just dive into random projects for which i have no idea what they are even gonna sound like from time to time. This is one of those times. I'm actually really interested in this. Like, i'm a pretty big vaporwave fan, and i've recently been getting a lot into ambient music, so i was always kinda itching to check out this guy's stuff. Don't know if i've ever reviewed a project with the "sound collage" genre before, but either way it sounds interesting. Don't really have more ... read more

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Added on: June 19, 2013