Age Of
The tenth album from Daniel Lopatin is his most collaborative and accessible solo project to date, yet still full of unexpected chaos and songs that can suddenly dissolve and disarm.
There are harpsichords all over Age Of, electronic composer Daniel Lopatin’s eighth studio album as Oneohtrix Point Never. It’s an instrument that Lopatin derides in press materials as a “perfectly dumb machine”—one that always reverberates the same, no matter how you strike the keys. That sound, reminiscent of…
For all its wildness, Daniel Lopatin's tenth record as Oneohtrix Point Never is deceptively accessible, and all the better for it
From the way Oneohtrix Point Never's early albums felt like vintage synth oddities to the '90s TV commercial-sampling Replica and the alt-rock-inspired Garden of Delete, Daniel Lopatin's music has always recontextualized sounds that seem to define an era.
A Daniel Lopatin album is always an occasion. For one, the fanfare generated by Lopatin, better known as Oneohtrix Point Never, is effective...
For an artist with a moniker as initially indecipherable as Oneohtrix Point Never, accessibility of both himself (real name Daniel Lopatin) and his music have never really been high priorities for the 35-year-old Massachusetts native.
OneOhTrix Point Never's latest album 'Age Of' is near-impossible to follow upon first listen - in fact, it's a choose-your-own adventure book of a release.
Globe-straddling experimentalist in bamboozlingly confident form. CD New Music review by Joe Muggs