Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of

Garden of Delete was a supreme stinker.  This one is a step up from that but still, I just can’t listen to it all the way through.  It has moments where he demonstrates how cool his music could be if he could just stick to a clear artistic vision.  Overall, it sounds to me like the kind of stuff I make when I can’t decide where I want a track to go so I just keep adding completely conflicting elements and end up with an obfuscated mess that nobody can make sense of (which is the same feeling R+7 gives me).  Black Snow is the only track that I really like.

It seems like Daniel has been searching for a way forward from Replica for the past nine years and is still struggling.  I can’t really blame him since Replica was such a conceptual landmark, but he’s setting the bar too high for himself and I wish he would just calm down and just make what feels natural.  BOC have been suffering from a similar problem in the past decade.

Édit: Actually Last Known Image of a Song is probably the coolest track on the album.  I forgot about that one.

  On 1/16/2020 at 12:48 AM, markedone said:

stinker of an album

Hard disagree. Not my favorite from him, but tracks like manifold, raycats, the title track, and Toys 2 are amazing. I think it might be a bit under appreciated tbh.

GoD > Age Of > R+7

fite me irl

tbh yeah, but the story and such to age of contributes alot to why i enjoy it.

  On 1/29/2020 at 12:52 AM, Kennylogg Bubblebath said:

GoD > Age Of > R+7

fite me irl

BRAH I'M OUTSIDE, WHERE ARE YA

Soz pal. I still like R+7, just not as much as the others, esp. GoD. That's prob my favourite OPN ever. 

  On 2/3/2020 at 11:06 PM, Kennylogg Bubblebath said:

Soz pal. I still like R+7, just not as much as the others, esp. GoD. That's prob my favourite OPN ever. 

oh I mean you no harm. I actually brought a sandwich I made for you. Of the knuckle variety.

  On 1/16/2020 at 6:45 PM, drillkicker said:

Garden of Delete was a supreme stinker

  On 1/16/2020 at 6:45 PM, drillkicker said:

Black Snow is the only track that I really like

  On 1/16/2020 at 6:45 PM, drillkicker said:

BOC have been suffering from a similar problem in the past decade

edit: oh also

  On 1/16/2020 at 6:45 PM, drillkicker said:

just keep adding completely conflicting elements and end up with an obfuscated mess that nobody can make sense of (which is the same feeling R+7 gives me)

probably the most smoothbrain takes I have read on watmm since fucking idk.. craig andersson? 

  On 2/3/2020 at 11:06 PM, Kennylogg Bubblebath said:

esp. GoD. That's prob my favourite OPN ever. 

You are officially a COOL DUDE™ in my book.

Something new is coming...

MAGIC

Must replay Garden of Delete, because I thought that was quite terrible and OPN is too good to have 'quite terrible' in his repertoire. Replica has really grown on me the last year or so. 

  On 9/21/2020 at 8:50 PM, beerwolf said:

Must replay Garden of Delete, because I thought that was quite terrible and OPN is too good to have 'quite terrible' in his repertoire. Replica has really grown on me the last year or so. 

 

Ah I love GoD

It definitely doesn't sound like anything else in his discography tho, that's for damn sure

What's his best album so I can check it out? And also one that sounds a lot like his sound? I've heard very little.

  On 9/21/2020 at 5:59 PM, someguy said:

Something new is coming...

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Mentioned this in another thread - this shazams as "tales from the trash stratum" which is the same name as this sunset corp playlist

  On 9/23/2020 at 4:02 AM, yekker said:

What's his best album so I can check it out? And also one that sounds a lot like his sound? I've heard very little.

https://youtu.be/Lc4FwA1O51Y

  On 9/23/2020 at 4:02 AM, yekker said:

What's his best album so I can check it out? And also one that sounds a lot like his sound? I've heard very little.

I like

  On 9/23/2020 at 4:51 AM, MIXL2 said:

I like

 

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This is good 

  On 9/23/2020 at 4:51 AM, MIXL2 said:

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I like it 

Probably due a new thread really, but new track Long Road Home premiered on Six Music tonight, sounds like a dreamier version of Age Of without all the GoD-style sounds in there. New album called Magic Oneohtrix Point Never?

  On 9/23/2020 at 11:53 PM, purlieu said:

Probably due a new thread really, but new track Long Road Home premiered on Six Music tonight, sounds like a dreamier version of Age Of without all the GoD-style sounds in there. New album called Magic Oneohtrix Point Never?

What did you think of it? Do you have a link maybe?

  On 9/24/2020 at 1:58 PM, fumi said:

What did you think of it? Do you have a link maybe?

Fumi - here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vpUsbKzt3C3SDhE9wfRhgbnwBGRYE-Px/view

There's another thread going on for this album, not sure why it was created in Music Discussion instead of New Releases.

  On 9/24/2020 at 3:40 PM, Friendly Stranger said:

Fumi - here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vpUsbKzt3C3SDhE9wfRhgbnwBGRYE-Px/view

There's another thread going on for this album, not sure why it was created in Music Discussion instead of New Releases.

Thank you. Much appreciated.

Bump just to say that this is damn underrated and one of opns best. Als this has the greatest CD packaging i have ever seen.