Oneohtrix Point Never

Add Date: November 17 

Artist: Oneohtrix Point Never (pronounced "one-oh-trix")

Album: Garden of Delete 

Label: Warp 

Genre: Electronica, experimental 

Comments: From the promoter: "After spending time on tour with Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden, [Daniel] Lopatin found himself gravitating towards the idea of creating a more rock-inspired record. Building up from simple piano arrangements, the songs play with the idea of a 3-minute, 'one-point-perspective' of a traditional rock song, but through the lens of Oneohtrix Point Never. Songs like 'Ezra', 'Lift', and lead single 'I Bite Through It' all hint at a verse-chorus-verse structure of a rock song, buried beneath layers of abstraction and manipulation one would expect from an OPN track, while the album's magnificent 8-minute long centerpiece 'Mutant Standard' shifts and changes, finding its closest rock relatives amongst prog and jam bands. Like Aphex Twin and the Prodigy before him, Lopatin manages to meld these seemingly distant sounds into a sound that is truly his own." 

Recommended Tracks: 4, 2, 8, 9 

DNP: none