Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of

[jasondonervan]

Bleep Advent 2018: Day 20
 
Oneohtrix Point Never - Love In The Time Of Lexapro (Warp) 
 
"For the twentieth day of the Bleep Advent 2018, Warp present this highly collectable CD edition of Love In The Time Of Lexapro by Oneohtrix Point Never. By far one of our favourite EPs of 2018, it continues the worldwide take over that began with 'Age Of', 'The Station' and 'We'll Take It'. Limited copies straight in from Japan so move fast..."

Tracklist:

01. Love In The Time Of Lexapro
02. Last Known Image Of A Song (Ryuichi Sakamoto Rework)
03. Thank God I'm A Country Girl
04. Monody
05. Blow By Blow
06. Babylon (Alex G & OPN)

(Looks like a smash and grab of LITTOL and The Station EPs)

[dr lopez]

fuck i want that

[Silent Member]

 

Warp Records in 2018: Everything was popup stores

 

 

I know somebody wants to get me one of those shirts with Quark on the front. size M... ; )

udo is the best

[ganus]

I adore the Love in the Time of Lexapro ep, have been listening to it a lot the last two weeks. It's kind of annoying that the release which includes all of the non-album tracks is some special limited edition thing. I don't understand the point of the "The Station"/"We'll Take It" eps as distinct releases, other than as a cash grab.

This album's unnecessary extra eps and drove of needless obscure merchandise -> Age of Excess

 

 

...are those pink tombstones I see?

Edited December 20, 2018 by ganus

[Guest]

https://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/2018-against-worldbuilding

 

interesting article that sort of takes the piss out of Age Of et al. don't really agree with the overall argument but reading a substantive case against 0pn's recent hubris is kind of entertaining (imo).

 

This album's unnecessary extra eps and drove of needless obscure merchandise -> Age of Excess

 

The combination of corporate iconography via Red Bull, the magnitude of the Armory space, and 0PN’s mission for a “project of unprecedented scope” all established a neo-feudal aesthetic that was further suffused into the symbolic artifices of his 2018 album, Age Of. Despite the artist’s efforts to grandly proclaim how we can “survive the last days of excess” — as articulated in 0PN’s interview with critic Colin Joyce — excess was on display during “Myriad.” Haphazardly branded as “Myriad Industries,” the piece was a terrifying example of how industrialized music propels our symbolic artifice forward into hubristic and, quite frankly, suffocating worldbuilding — excess.

...

The title track’s harpsichord transition into the glazed drawl of “Babylon” is a truly gruesome picture for how overdetermined sound can yield hollow forms — devoid of their intended affect — and transparently “try hard” in their world-like, sonic-rococo embellishment. It expounds its own suffocating commentary through the literal use of gas-mask breaths on “Black Snow” or the “cinematically” ascendent, minimalist hocketing of “Warning.” With virtuosic production “shredding” techniques, materials, and symbols that have been combined and recombined countless times in virtually thousands of recordings in modern music, Age Of is a “flex,” an intended opus that clinically systematizes 0PN’s mythos into a choked amalgamation of his tropic industrialized sounds and motifs.

Edited December 21, 2018 by Guest

[KovalainenFanBoy]

i don't understand that quoted text and i don't think a second read is gonna help

[Hugh Mughnus]

i don't understand that quoted text and i don't think a second read is gonna help

Basically, he's lost his head up his arse.

[Guest]

 

i don't understand that quoted text and i don't think a second read is gonna help

Basically, he's lost his head up his arse.

 

the fact that he accidentally copied a celine dion melody just shows that the possibilities of tonality have been exhausted, guys! it's totally not that he made something unoriginal!!

Edited December 21, 2018 by Guest

[Hugh Mughnus]

 

 

 

i don't understand that quoted text and i don't think a second read is gonna help

Basically, he's lost his head up his arse.

 

the possibilities of tonality have been exhausted, guys! it's totally not that he made something unoriginal!!

 

Lol  

Edited December 21, 2018 by Bulk VanderHooj

[eczem]

Thou shalt not criticize the harpsichord

[ascdi]

fuck i want that

 

 

Re: that single

[manmower]

y tho

[fairuzosman]

Ugh rosalia

[KovalainenFanBoy]

Can we agree "Mood spelled backwards says "doom"" is the worst line of this year and possibly this decade

[WeAreOceans]

This album's unnecessary extra eps and drove of needless obscure merchandise -> Age of Excess

 

[Real Human Bean]

(haven't listened to this album since the utterly disappointing "concertscape" at The Barbican but weather is fun)

[mcbpete]

Now I've had a few months to digest the album ..... s'bollocks innit.

 

We need ol' Juno 60-arpy OPN back (or the OPN behind Commissions II) (or just an OPN that's more concerned with the album itself rather than all the external universe nonsense behind it)

[Hugh Mughnus]

Do you have a pond nearby your house p'haps mr pete?

 

I have an idea. 

Edited February 15, 2019 by Bulk VanderHooj

[markedone]

My fandom never fully materialized for this album. Or garden of delete.  I appreciate some songs off each, but never want to smack on the album like I do with other opn.  The good time soundtrack is amazing tho, so i know he's still got it, it just takes a different type of project/mindset.

Edited February 15, 2019 by Marked x 0ne

[mcbpete]

Do you have a pond nearby your house p'haps mr pete?

 

I have an idea.

Unfortunately I only got the digital vinals of the album - not throwing my lappy in the pond !

[beerwolf]

Age Of is a classic in my humble opinion Sir Pete.

Edited February 15, 2019 by beerwolf

[Hugh Mughnus]

 

Do you have a pond nearby your house p'haps mr pete?

 

I have an idea.

Unfortunately I only got the digital vinals of the album - not throwing my lappy in the pond !

 

 

[hello spiral]

We need ol' Juno 60-arpy OPN back 

 

pls no

[mcbpete]

eMego OPN ?

[hello spiral]

I'll alow it