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We need to get back to the Organ Thing of The Day thing now the Summer distractions are out of the way, this has just landed here. …
Oneohtrix Point Never, AKA Daniel Lopatin, has just shared A Barely Lit Path the first single/video from his just-announced new album Again (coming September 29 via Warp). The song serves as the album’s climactic closer, bolstered by orchestra conducted and arranged by Robert Ames & performed by the NOMAD Ensemble. The video, directed by Freeka Tet from a treatment by Lopatin and Tet, presents the harrowing tale of a pair of anthropomorphized crash test dummies.
Again is in part “a speculative autobiography,” that germinated as a collaboration between Lopatin’s current and younger selves— a meditation on his musical identity during young adulthood from the perspective of middle age. Since his last album, 2020’s Magic Oneohtrix Point Never, Lopatin has served as musical director for The Weeknd’s 2021 Super Bowl Half-Time performance, composed and performed the music for Chanel’s 2021 Métiers d’art show, and served as executive producer on The Weeknd’s worldwide #1 charted album, Dawn FM (he also performed on a majority of the songs on the album). Again’s artwork features an original sculpture by Matias Falkbakken, conceptualized in concert with Lopatin and photographed by Vegard Kleven. Design and packaging was developed by Memory, a newly formed collaboration between Lopatin and Online Ceramics (Elijah Funk & Alix Ross).
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The album was announced a few days back via this video…
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