Equally challenging and comforting, Magic Oneohtrix Point Never just might be the album that moves listeners who appreciated, but didn't fully embrace, his previous music.
At its core, it’s Lopatin distorting the mechanisms of listening to and researching sound, in order to facilitate retroactive analysis.
It’s a thoroughly kaleidoscopic affair that proves to be one of the most imaginative and genre-defying records this end of 2020.
‘Magic Oneohtrix Point Never’ continues in the same vein, offering a synthesis of the more accessible aspects of his work and a few surprises along the way.
After the huge success of his score for Uncut Gems, Daniel Lopatin returns with an album of collage-like soundscapes, splicing together various forms of electronic, New Age and ambient music ... As ever, it’s as unpredictable as it is beguiling,
His eleventh Oneohtrix Point Never album is a neat distillation of his canon.
Magic Oneohtrix Point Never is untethered in many respects, but makes perfect sense as a self-titled work: surreal, unpredictable, magic.
We’ve become accustomed to hearing his production in Hollywood movies and chart-topping albums, so perhaps it’s now more difficult for him to produce moments that truly astonish. That being said, the album still comprises some truly enchanting touches that could only have come from him, and often they appear when working around a vocalist.
Daniel Lopatin’s latest doesn't swerve in a new direction but instead serves as an overlook for his career, highlighting his skill at splicing the old and the new in continually fascinating ways.
There’s a powerful cohesion to the collection that makes it feel greater than the sum of its parts, with several standout fusions of singing and instrumentation/production as only Lopatin could yield.
As an overview of Daniel Lopatin's musical exploits, Magic OPN isn't quite as spectacular as it could have been.
MOPN would have landed much better if it abandoned the balancing act between the past and the present in exchange for wholehearted embrace of Lopatin's current realities.
Recorded throughout the pandemic and boasting a radio show concept, Daniel Lopatin has crafted what I believe to be one of his most refreshing, indulgent and oddly accessible albums in his catalog. "Magic Oneohtrix Point Never" is an album that I've always wanted "Age Of" to become while simultaneously being as strange, beautiful and engaging as his other works. While I wouldn't say it's essential OPN material just from these first couple of listens, "Replica" and ... read more
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Oneohtrix Point Never is a notorious name in Electronic music at this point ever since his breakthrough in the late 2000s. One of the many aliases of Daniel Lopatin, he is one of the influential names in Vaporwave music.
Magic Oneohtrix Point Never is Daniel's 9th album under the O.P.N alias that was released in October of 2020, having been recorded during the COVID-19 lockdowns in March-July 2020 in Queens, New York.
To be honest... it's hard for me to ... read more
Oneohtrix Point Never have just released what is one of the most magical and oddly nostalgic albums to come out this year. This record is really weird yet really beautiful at the same time. The odd autotune on the vocals are incredibly reminiscent of Bon Iver, yet the beauty and emotion of them pours through despite how despondent they usually appear to be. As a whole, the mood of the record is super gloomy and downhearted, and yet it relishes in these feelings and creates a beautiful ... read more
Magic is the album that introduced me to OPN, an artist who would go on to completely change my understanding of electronic music. I think within his discography, this album is really underrated. While yes, he glosses over a lot of stuff he's already done, I remember hearing him say in a recent interview that lots of times people value the novelty of something being different a lot higher than it necessarily should be. I think that statement is something that has affected a lot of people's ... read more
Weird ass soundscapes and textures and a very spacey atmosphere, it really sounded magical too
1 | Cross Talk I 0:22 | 82 |
2 | Auto & Allo 3:21 | 82 |
3 | Long Road Home 3:32 | 85 |
4 | Cross Talk II 0:49 | 83 |
5 | I Don't Love Me Anymore 2:54 | 92 |
6 | Bow Ecco 2:11 | 84 |
7 | The Whether Channel 6:08 | 78 |
8 | No Nightmares 4:06 | 86 |
9 | Cross Talk III 0:12 | 67 |
10 | Tales From the Trash Stratum 3:28 | 76 |
11 | Answering Machine 0:58 | 77 |
12 | Imago 3:48 | 81 |
13 | Cross Talk IV / Radio Lonelys 1:08 | 81 |
14 | Lost But Never Alone 4:18 | 91 |
15 | Shifting 1:54 | 76 |
16 | Wave Idea 3:21 | 85 |
17 | Nothing’s Special 4:37 | 89 |
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