Daniel Lopatin is getting ready to drop a fresh Oneohtrix Point Never album called Tranquilizer really soon.
This time, there’s already a brand new track out called “Cherry Blue,” and its music video is by Pol Taburet, who’s never made a video before but does wild, dream-like paintings that blur the lines between living and not, between body and soul, and between falling apart and starting again. The clip is pretty weird in a cool way—one minute you think you’re seeing something, and the next, it’s something else entirely.
The full record Tranquilizer pops up online November 17, and gets real-life CDs and vinyls on November 21 through Warp, so fans don’t have to wait too long. “Cherry Blue” joins earlier songs like “Measuring Ruins,” “Bumpy,” “Lifeworld,” and “For Residue,” all bringing their own twists. Daniel mentioned the album came out of old-school commercial music kits—they’re a bunch of typical sounds, but he mixed them up in wild ways, flipping them inside out. “shaped by commercial audio construction kits from a bygone era—an index of cliches turned inside out.”
People think it’s interesting how an album can feel fresh even when it uses old sounds.
Besides his own records, Lopatin made the score for Josh Safdie’s new film Marty Supreme (with Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tyler, the Creator, and Abel Ferrara—what a squad). The movie’s out in U.S. theaters on December 25, so that’s something to look forward to over the holidays. By the way, Lopatin already grabbed the Cannes Soundtrack prize for Good Time, and also made the wild music for Uncut Gems.
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