Oneohtrix Point Never - Tranquilizer

Tranquilizer’ isn’t the sound of sedation but resurfacing. Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never isn’t condemning our need for escape but exploring what happens after. The new record maps a movement from weightless calm into something more grounded, the necessary cycle of withdrawal and return that keeps us sane in a world both overwhelming and mundane. We plummet from the watery bliss of ‘Lifeworld’ into the mournful melancholy of ‘Cherry Blue’ and twisted grooves of ‘Rodl Glide’.

As always with Oneohtrix Point Never, the real collides with the unreal. Listen closely and you will hear the scrape of fingers on a fretboard, a stone sliding across a dungeon floor, the squeak of a door opening. His music has never been an abstract colour field; it has weight, edges, shadows. ‘Tranquilizer’ feels like falling out of a dream you can still touch.

2LP Clear Vinyl