Garden of Delete (2015)

this is a superb album and i wish it wasn't so easy to just vote for the single. but 'sticky drama' really is that good

No Good is pretty

I think I'm going with Freaky Eyes

I Bite Through It for me.

Child of Rage. Had a moment approaching the sublime with it on the headphones on a rainy wintery walk last year.

i need to spend more time with this album. it's the first thing by this guy outside of the Games project that I've enjoyed. That said, it feels more like an album of moments and neat segues than one where I'd know the individual tracks.

i haven't listened to this much at all since it came out. i revisited it a bit before i saw him live back in march just to reacquaint myself with the material, and it was kind of a drag. the show and the album were...more conceptually interesting than enjoyable. whereas imo every previous OPN album was both. but i'm just not into the mountain dew chugging nu metal tweaker vibe of this project. the record and the show i saw were both just really drab and muddy and dark and formless. voted 'Ezra' cuz that's the only one that i remember.

I'm the opposite, this is the first thing I've heard of this dude's that I haven't found just sort of dull and kitschy. Kind of interesting and indicates that at some point he could come up something I could fully get into.

R Plus Seven is really good too but yeah I think he's been getting more exciting and dynamic

based on his track record, i assume whatever he does next will be pretty different. i really appreciate and commend him for making records that sound completely different from each other but that are also all distinctly OPN. he'll be around for a while making great work.

man I've only heard the stuff on Rifts I take it this is a lot different

it's just a totally different sound palate. but i think his personality as a composer/arranger are obvious in everything he's done.

i don't think i've really pulled apart the tracks in this, just go at it as a piece. Sticky Drama obviously a standout.

when i saw him, i was surprised to see how young the audience was. huge amount of what looked like 18-22 yr olds.

makes sense. p4k approved + same wheelhouse as animal collective, black dice + replica seems to have become an 'instant classic' type record

This is as much the legit 'future of pop' that the discerning young soundster goes for as, like, Young Thug

Hyperrealised computer party

exactly. p sure OPN is huge on /mu

yeah suppose I oughta investigate a bit more then! Rifts has been like Dam-Funk's Toeachizown to me, both awesome comps that don't exactly make me want to check out their other work, just because they're so massive and hard to digest

so void of even recent signification that it fulfils whatever cuckslaying dreamwish you conjure in your fevered smartphones have fragmented reality and made me master delusion

hey now

what are you talking about?

it fulfils nice dreamwishes too. opn is whatever you want it to be

just trying to get my head around why 4chan likes it so much

they're real into Deathgrips too. i see the crossover.

guess i expected the typical avant-dude crew at the show, which skews a little older. the 4chan universe is only in my periphery.

i'm just not into the mountain dew chugging nu metal tweaker vibe of this project.

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this is what's so great about the album! he dignifies this degraded/commodified form of experience in a way that risks making fun of it but never does. some kind of uncanny return vibe but now composed in a way that provides these real moments of epiphany that don't feel manufactured or formulaic. his music always sort of did this, but it was never as effective before because he didn't embrace ugliness quite so brazenly.

i mean, the past albums were very effective, they only suffer in comparison to this one, which feels more challenging and original.

did any of you guys see a version of this show that had a video component containing what looked like documentary footage from a hollywood horror film costume workshop? there were all these carefully rendered, hideous masks, just displayed without context.

think i am going to vote for sticky drama after all btw

like i said, the sound palate just isn't palatable to me. i appreciate the concept more than the record itself. replica and r plus seven were conceptually interesting and musically compelling and emotional. i'm hyped on whatever he does next

i need to go to bed sorry for the garbage first sentence

i always found his concepts a bit muddled until this album.

well this is his first album that's openly a ~concept~ album

i think Replica was pretty well defined: microsamples of commercials and tv shows, simulacra reassembled in a hall of mirrors. R Plus Seven is a bit more vague, but the feeling I get from the "Problem Areas" video is the horror of the singularity. there's a lot of drifting through space in an infinite plastic future feel to that record, techno-horror, very Kurzweil. GOD is def not his first concept album

is it bad that I found Replica really really dull btw

of course not. like i said, i love that there's a clear through line connecting all of his records, despite the fact that they all sound radically different.

Replica is by far my favorite, I'd give it another shot, imago!

I'm with flappy bird as far as appreciating GoD but not enjoying the actual listening experience

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i agree with pretty much everything flappy bird said above

i adore everything he's done up until GoD, and i will intensely devour whatever he does next

a lot of times when the most recent album by a favorite artist is disappointing (to you, at least), you worry that they're headed off in some disagreeable trajectory or that they've lost the spark or whatever. i don't get that from OPN and GoD. i appreciate his experimentation and need to try something new, i just don't particularly like where he went it.

garden of excrete

There are many other great songs on this, but I think I've listened to Sticky Drama at least once a week ever since this was released.

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Anyone still listen to this?

I wrote a lot of bullshit about this album on this thread. It still moves me more than the other stuff he did. And live this material was tremendous, especially with the video and light components