With Oneohtrix Point Never, you never know exactly what you're going to get. The music of Daniel Lopatin often consists of many samples and lush compositions in which bits of electronics are pasted together. This sometimes results in wonderful songs and other times, on the contrary, abstract music that may make you wonder what you are actually listening to. Where
Magic Oneohtrix Point Never (2020)
… may have been his most accessible work, he makes it more difficult for the listener on Again. With bleeps, beeps, strings, synths tumbling over each other, tempo changes, distorted voices and choppy beats, you imagine yourself in an overpriced fever dream. Again is also thematically conceptual; Lopatin considers this album autobiographical, partnering with his younger self in the creation process. Again is full of creative inventions and at times races past you in inimitable ways, so it is best to just surrender to it. (JvQ)more
