Antidote

1y

Confirmed working on Weeknd's next album

cosmogramma

1y

this might be one of his best tracks ever

Antidote

1y

Confirmed working on Weeknd's next album

Blue Genes

1y

"More than any other OPN album, it spills with generous, uncynical beauty. Strings performed by the Berlin-based NOMAD ensemble flourish across the opener Elseware; piano from weirdo pop stalwart Jim O’Rourke darts across the title track; and Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo laces hot, bright electric guitar into the impressionistic Memories of Music. In Lopatin’s corner, synth arpeggios bubble and overflow; playful beats pirouette, clatter and stomp. Voices hang close to the ear, occasionally perfectly comprehensible. “But isn’t the view so amazing?” Lopatin sings on the wide-eyed World Outside, as sincere as if he were sweeping his arm across a painterly vista. On Krumville, the closest OPN might ever come to Midwestern emo, Lopatin and the dark art-rock band Xiu Xiu ululate together, mournful and open-throated, about someone who “was a friend and now he’s gone”.

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Now that he’s gone back and reinhabited his formative years, Lopatin’s content to file that version of himself away; to integrate what he can remember of the past with the immediate experience of the present. “I’m killing those people off, letting them go,” he says of the former selves he revisited for his latest work. “I don’t want them to be hungry ghosts. I just wanted to check in and see what made that period of time so potent. It feels like I’ve finally caught up to myself, and that feels really freeing. Even calling the album Again feels freeing – it means I don’t have to feel this bizarre pressure to constantly iterate and reiterate. I can just actually be myself, again.”"

Blue Genes

1y

"More than any other OPN album, it spills with generous, uncynical beauty. Strings performed by the Berlin-based NOMAD ensemble flourish across the opener Elseware; piano from weirdo pop stalwart Jim O’Rourke darts across the title track; and Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo laces hot, bright electric guitar into the impressionistic Memories of Music. In Lopatin’s corner, synth arpeggios bubble and overflow; playful beats pirouette, clatter and stomp. Voices hang close to the ear, occasionally perfectly comprehensible. “But isn’t the view so amazing?” Lopatin sings on the wide-eyed World Outside, as sincere as if he were sweeping his arm across a painterly vista. On Krumville, the closest OPN might ever come to Midwestern emo, Lopatin and the dark art-rock band Xiu Xiu ululate together, mournful and open-throated, about someone who “was a friend and now he’s gone”.

...

Now that he’s gone back and reinhabited his formative years, Lopatin’s content to file that version of himself away; to integrate what he can remember of the past with the immediate experience of the present. “I’m killing those people off, letting them go,” he says of the former selves he revisited for his latest work. “I don’t want them to be hungry ghosts. I just wanted to check in and see what made that period of time so potent. It feels like I’ve finally caught up to myself, and that feels really freeing. Even calling the album Again feels freeing – it means I don’t have to feel this bizarre pressure to constantly iterate and reiterate. I can just actually be myself, again.”"

HURRY UP kiddash3r

1y

I've been obsessed with Nothing's Special recently(both versions)

Blue Genes

1y

Today