Age Of

I'm always a little afraid when a performer not known for their lyrics decides to start writing lyrics. In the case of the recent albums of, say, Arca and jazz guitarist Mary Halvorson, it turned out pretty amazingly. In this case, the vocalists could be reading his shopping list and it wouldn't matter because you can hardly understand a word through the heavily processed vocal tracks. Maybe that's for the better. But it should be noted these tracks come off more as 'songs' than do the usual oneohtrix tracks. I think he's one of the most amazing people working in music now and this album doesn't change my mind.

I've been listening to this guy for years. To be honest I only respected him until I heard Garden of Delete, at which time I fell in love with the crispness mixed with more light-hearted emotions than previous work, while retaining the psychedelia. In some ways this new album, Age Of, is even more accessible than Garden. The overall mood is a warm collage of voices evoking love and loss, hope and awe. The rhythms are slow, the tone poignant, much reminiscent of the mindset of modern man attempting to simultaneously both adapt to the modern world, as well as resist it. And how? by enjoying music in a dark room.

A lot of Oneohtrix Point Never's music sounds like something from another dimension. Approach this with an open mind and constantly find hidden treasures and strange sounds that never repeat. Perfect for being alone and sipping some drinks. Only for the explorers.

Reviewing this as a long time listener of electronic music in general, and of Daniel Lopatin's (aka Oneohtrix Point Never) earlier work. He is probably one of the more under-appreciated geniuses in the modern electronic music world. A true synth virtuouso. Sadly, as this is about as far from the top 20 radio station hits as you can get, he will most likely continue to go ignored by the masses. This is the deep end of the pool as far as music goes. It is high brow avant garde in the extreme and will not appeal to some people's tastes. This is the soundtrack of the isolationist post-modern digital wasteland we live in now. If you like music like the more recent stuff from Aphex Twin, you might also enjoy this. It is one of those rare albums that gets better each listen. It's about the moods and emotions that the sounds invoke. I could maybe do without the vocal tracks, not that they are poor, but his instrumental work is superior. Check out his other earlier bands too "Games", which later became "Ford & Lopatin" I think.

This may be his best album. Lopatin's music still has that erratic quality for which he has become known for the past few albums, but melodic and harmonic ideas now seem able to run to completion. This is particularly satisfying after two albums of taut melodic threads that often go straight into the void, dissipating before the good part arrived. That wasn't to say that the music wasn't good, it was, but it didn't seem to fulfill all its promises.Beautiful performances. The addition of vocals may turn some off, because we come into anything with certain expectations (and vocals front and center on a couple cuts OPN may seem wrong), but they sit well with me, adding depth and emotional heft to the arrangements.

Solid album, but the vocal tracks somewhat bring it down. Not that they're terrible by any means, but it had the potential to be better without them. That said, it does grow on you more the more you listen to it, so if you're not hot right off the bat, give it few more listens.

Always awesome. This is an amazing piece of musical genius. It has to be heard all at once. In order. It’s incredible on vinyl.

I bought a few of Daniel Lopatin's tracks before. This is just bad, all over the place. Listen on Bleep.com and see if it's worth 20 bucks.