And the tracks keep coming. So far, we’ve heard “Still Life,” “Problem Areas,” and “Joyvtl Jvbuayf” (figure out the title yet?), and today comes “Zebra,” yet another preview from Oneohtrix Point Never’s forthcoming album, R Plus Seven. The nearly seven-minute track sees Lopatin employing quick, choppy edits and jarring textural juxtapositions to sculpt an ever-changing, morphological shape of a song. The overall effect is awkward yet seductive, with the song’s jagged edits not quite fully smoothed over and its appropriated sounds not quite buried deep enough to approach pure materiality. It feels like the sonic elements are mapping out the boundaries of some sort of amorphous shape, but all we can perceive is the way it articulates time — in the Lopatonian sense of time, of course. Listen to the track here:
And if you want a curiously beautiful context in which to listen, check out Jacob Ciocci’s art on OPN’s website.
R Plus Seven is out October 1 on Warp Records.
• Oneohtrix Point Never: http://www.pointnever.com
• Jacob Ciocci: http://jacobciocci.org
• Warp: http://warp.net
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