Own-Eee-Oh-Trix POLL Never: the 0PN albums poll

Also Russian Mind is killer

richard d james seems to like him, recommending his video to someone on soundcloud

i have spent no time with returnal. rifts was my intro and i have a very strong connection to tracks like "russian mind" and "hyperdawn". replica is dope as hell and i liked r+7. but i generally vote for shit that makes me cry, and "mutant standard" did, so G.O.D. for me.

Garden has a strong, evocative late night urban vibe imo

I've "felt" more in Garden than his other stuff

Ouroboros is all time tho

Stress Waves is amazing as well. But yeah, Russian Mind - all time greatness.

Rifts is my favorite era, mainly since it was the first stuff I heard, but I like everything he's released. It's all really unique. Tough poll.

Tried to watch that red bull interview but man, he is one boring dude

The interviewer is super painful.

"i was really into PK Dick... Philip K Dick... *hits bowl*..."

http://pitchfork.com/features/podcasts/9767-this-is-how-we-do-it-oneohtrix-point-never/

more...details...please...about his suburban Boston...upbringing...

give this dude another ten years.. GoD seems like pretty rad music for teenagers. i still love returnal

switched my vote to returnal

my man

among other things that album is just a sensuous joy

voted R+7 tho

the swelling transition from "Along" into "Problem Areas" is one of his best moments.

I've listened to GoD a few times, I'm not fully sold on it but there's definitely something there, perhaps it will fully click with me at some point. His older stuff just sounds like well-constructed but empty 80s fetishism to me idk

Although Replica is probably my favorite, Garden of Delete has something his other albums don't — a sense of forward momentum or narrative. The other albums feel somewhat like exhibition spaces you walk through and encounter one piece at a time. (The "Problem Areas" video reinforces this idea.) The CD booklet is excessive in a way that "hypes" the album, too, and then the website gives you even more stuff, like there's a puzzle to be put together. It's kind of fun.

Last track on GoD is so good

Yeah, maybe this isn't the right time for this kind of poll, so soon after the release of GoD. I'm the same as a lot of people here, in that I'd probably vote for something kinda older, Rifts or Returnal probably but that GoD sounds so promising and so forward thinking from him. But it's too soon. Rifts then.

Trust your feelings. The correct answer is GoD.

Too late. Let's all note this and then come back again after another two albums. Hahe. I think like many my favourite of his stuff is Games. He still hasn't topped Strawberry Skyies for me.

But now I'm listening to GoD and.. well. This guy.

I don't really get how people say this new one is difficult. Some of the last records seemed so flat to me, like an electronic no-wave. This new one has some cute melodies and even some soaring housey moments.

new one is so overcooked... the songs carry no weight. it feels like a big, meticulously crafted collage with zero fat. the only tracks that seem to have mass and/or momentum are Mutant Standard, I Bite Through It, Freaky Eyes, and No Good. otherwise it sounds like an assemblage of parts that are fashioned to fit together. the abundance of chipmunk-y (or slowed) vocal samples, chopped and pitched sounds flimsy as fuck, it ruins "Lift", imo. does anybody feel "Animals"? i hope it grows on me?

O yeah like animals by PINK FLOYS? Yeah

Nocturnal urban adventure landscape soundtrack = GoD

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the sound palette on GOD is super harsh and dark to me, he described one of the songs as "the feeling when you drink 20 mountain dews and burn a house down, and the crash that comes after." it's not pleasant or pretty, like someone said here or on another thread, more conceptually interesting than actually fun to listen to. r plus seven is a museum piece but it's beautiful and scary... i can't find a way into enjoying rather than just appreciating GOD

More I listen to GOD the more I dislike the tracks with the autotuned vocals. yet stuff like "I Bite Through It" and "Mutant Standard" are quickly becoming favorites. Feels like his most inconsistent record.

GOD is dead :(

anybody tried to read along with the lyric sheet ?

Have yall listened to the eccojams vol. 1 tape he released in 2010? I wouln't rate it with any of the albums being polled here but it's still pretty incredible, especially if you are at all interested in the vaporwave aesthetic

Might have mentioned this, but his live show for GOD is super different: very harsh and loud, almost like a noise show.

he's playing in really small rock clubs in the spring, can't wait

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Strong showing for all, makes sense. You can make a good argument for all of them. I'm still trying to figure out GoD, though.

replica

Still have trouble not thinking of this guy as a hack

didn't mind that nu metal tribute album though. it was.. okay

eccojams

good time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mDXrrCSoek

it's odd to see Chrome Country as a piece to be performed live

also realised recently that the organ line at the end was also used in Autre Ne Veut's Gonna Die (produced by OPN)

Didn't realize he had a whole live group, imagined he just played solo

he does typically perform solo, but he recruited players for these recent MYRIAD shows

can't find any setlists online, what are the old songs he's encoring with?

have seen mentions of Child of Rage and Chrome Country (as seen in that video), don't know if there's others