 | ★★★★★ Review date: 2025-05-10 Artist: Oneohtrix Point Never Genre: Experimental Release date: 2025-11-21 15 songs - 58 min |
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From what I’ve read Oneohtrix Point Never uses a lot of samples from TV commercials, cartoons and old shows. Replica, another album of his, came from DVD samples from content dated around the 2010s. Tranquilizer, followed the same formula, but it uses samples found on the Internet Archive around the early 2020s.
I liked the dense sample layering, it forces you to pay attention to every sound. If you leave the album as background music you will miss a lot of what makes it great. There is so much sound coexisting in such short amount of time its very impressive it doesn’t devolve into random noise scrambled into an album. The album sounds very fresh. Not exactly what Oneohtrix has released before. However, some of the songs still had the recognizable sound of the artist, specially Modern Lust.
I’d say this is a very accesible and digestible experimental album. It doesn’t fit the usual classification of music, but it doesn’t go the opposite way and sound completely foreign. There are some catchy songs, such as Lifeworld and Cherry Blue. Definitely recommended after you first listen to Replica or R Plus Seven.