![]() Artists tend to think of a self-titled record as their best record. So I was building up to this over the course of a decade more or less. ![]() Oneohtrix Point Never: For a long time I toyed with the idea of doing an eponymous record, a self-titled record, and I always thought it was inappropriate, because for me to do one, I want to do something that encapsulates the various musical strains I’ve been interested in, and there’s been a lot. ![]() This new record, however, is for casting spells on yourself on your own, walking through the dirty streets, looking at pixelated shadows cast by LED streetlamps.ĭean Kissick: What were you thinking about when you made this record? Lopatin staged his previous album, Age Of (2018), as an experimental vapor-baroque opera at the Park Avenue Armory. They performed together on Saturday Night Live the same week as Elizabeth Warren. He recently scored the soundtrack for Josh and Benny Safdie’s anxious-euphoric New York symphony Uncut Gems (2019) and wrote some songs for The Weeknd’s album too. Listen to this record for too long and you’ll fall into a trance nonetheless, Lopatin wants you to listen to it all the way through. Its first video, for his vocoder duet with Caroline Polachek, “Long Road Home,” was directed by writer Charlie Fox with puppeteer Emily Schubert and features a devil having sex with a bat in a dark, gloomy interior: a perfect summation of 2020. An ode to riding the radio waves and making tapes growing up, Magic Oneohtrix Point Never was made this summer in Queens, in the post-Ballardian skyscraper he calls home, during New York’s vague stages of lockdown. It’s his ninth, or twelfth, or fourteenth album, depending on how you count them, and ties up some of the strings of his career so far. Hypnagogic pop star Daniel Lopatin, thirty-eight, who performs as Oneohtrix Point Never, has just released his self-titled record Magic Oneohtrix Point Never. Visuals: Robert Beatty’s official artworks for Magic Oneohtrix Point Never, Courtesy and © Robert Beatty.
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