Returnal

Oneohtrix Point Never
Editions Mego
Classical | Jun 2010

Reviews

Brick
Reviewed 2010-06-04
Lazer Pulses Shooting out of Speakers & Hypnotizing. Analog Genius at Work. Top top top top top notch stuff from Daniel Lopatin, the greatest thing to happen -synth act since Jean Michel Jarre. You're in for a real treat. Does it get any better than this? I submit that it does not.

1- 'Nil Adimari' - Clamor! crunchy static triumphant sprawling synthesizer burst. audio fireworks and a explosive patchings that blast out. the computer is in rebellion. somehow arrives at serenity.

2- 'Describing Bodies' - massive sprawling synthesizer dreamscape without rival. a shimmering drone masterwork.

3- 'Stress Wave' - mellow, reflective, oscillating undulating waves of perfection. a sea. music for docking your hovercraft at the spaceport.

4-'Returnal' - the pop song, hyperlayered, beds of marshmallow bliss, pitched up warbly treated & layered vocal weirdness, stairways of warmth. oh wow.

5- 'Pelham Island Road' - shifting eerie tritone pitches that explode when they hit the ear, massssssive PBS synthesizer & vauge tropical birds, othewordly shimmering radiance.

6-'Where does time go' -An odyssey of arpeggiated triplets falling over one another infinitely. Pulses you beyond the halocine clouds of the troposphere.

7-'Ourboros' -Warm, staggeringly gorgeous comedown into just plain heavely bliss

8- 'Preyoundi" - staggering, sputtering, rolling ball of percussive entropy veiled behind a wall of questioning extraterrestrial pulses. then the gorgeous twisted vague vocal remnants tie the album to a gorgeous closer.

Recent airplay

Pelham Island Road
radio sevenOct 21, 2015
Pelham Island Road
Ghost TreesJan 11, 2011
Returnal
Money Isn't RealDec 17, 2010
Preyouandi, Ouroboros
orangeasmDec 02, 2010
Returnal
orangeasmNov 03, 2010
Where Does Time Go, Pelham Island Road
orangeasmAug 19, 2010

Charting

2010-06-06 — 2010-08-08 Classical/Experimental
Week EndingAirplays
Aug 8 1
Aug 1 2
Jul 25 2
Jul 18 1
Jul 4 1
Jun 27 1
Jun 20 2
Jun 13 1

Track listing

1. Nil Admirari
2. Describing Bodies
3. Stress Waves
4. Returnal
5. Pelham Island Road
6. Where Does Time Go
7. Ouroboros
8. Preyouandi