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| 2.0 poor | Rustune | November 3rd 21 |
On the website for this there is a quote by the late electronic pop star SOPHIE that references making art to be "loud, colorful, vibrant," all of these adjectives that reflect the colorful website that this quote is paired.rAs far as the album is concerned though, this thing rarely enchants or even remotely seems inspired beyond the radio, nostalgia aesthetic that was also used on the last album. I can see why this might be a more "friendly" version of OPN's music but it makes me doubly mad because we have only really seen one release in the vein of Replica, which in many ways is like the odd child out from the rest of the albums in that it contains some tracks that sound more akin to R Plus Seven sketches mixed with some ambient similar to Returnal (but not like rifts, more concrete, straight environmental drone tracks).rThe music found on Replica to me is something that for years I have been hoping to hear more from OPN but alas, the direction he has been taking is more nostalgia based, more gooey and more forgettable
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| 3.5 great | Naomi Lores | September 28th 21 |
I liked the back half's gitchier, more ambient side a lot. It's pretty good, reminds me a little of Oval or The Future Sound of London taken in a less pretentious direction.
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| 3.0 good | 2ool | November 23rd 20 |
it's better than age of I guess
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| 4.0 excellent | ajcollins15 | November 5th 20 |
Daniel Lopatin, a Brooklyn native, has been making music under the OPN name since 2007 and he has one of the densest and interesting catalog you can get for an experimental electronic artist. Currently, on his 9th studio album, he kind of celebrates his legacy as an artist instead of defining a new genre of electronic music. In past classics (i.e. ?Replica?, ?R Plus Seven?, ?Garden of?, and even ?Betrayed in the Octagon?) Daniel redefined how we looked at Glitch/Plunderphonics, Vaporwave/progressive electronics, Post-Industrial, and Ambient music respectively. Daniel has such a keen eye for displaying coherent structure and sound design for electronic genres that have no need to be blended. With ?Magic? he gives a new audience, a more popular audience with his newest production credits for The Weeknd, and movies like Good Time and Uncut Gems, a showing of what his best styles sound like without going through them all at once. And to be honest it is a stellar showing what Daniel has done without suffering from the same issues all those albums plagued. The only gripe is that it still sounds like a disjointed listen even though he tries his best to fluently incorporate everything. The most interesting thing about this album is how Daniel uses the changing of the radio to explore his sounds and displays that although there are hundreds of different genres of music out there, it all comes together to be music. Great listen and a must for all new listeners to his music.
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| 3.9 excellent | Erwann S. EMERITUS | October 30th 20 |
Even more so than his latest record Age Of, Magic Oneohtrix Point Never feels like Daniel Lopatin's contemplation of his own legacy, a retrospective work self-referencing past projects. It features the manufactured aura of Age Of and Garden of while still emphasizing the experimentalism that made Replica and R Plus Seven the bizarrely obsessing objects they are. This does sound all over the place, doesn't it? It does, but this is precisely the desired effect. As a radio station moves between genres and moods, Magic flows between Lopatin's influences and loves. The most impressive feat is the overall cohesion that emerges out of this project, succeeding at embarking the listener on a cosmic journey waving multiple influences. Everything is there: static breakdowns, sound collages, sudden silences, and synth arpeggios. It's a mess. But what a beautiful, hypnotic mess.
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| 3.5 great | iGuter | November 23rd 25 |
| 4.5 superb | doofy | January 7th 24 |
| 3.5 great | TwigTW | December 14th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | cendor | September 24th 23 |
| 3.5 great | mkodo | January 18th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Pvzuzu | January 13th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tyll | December 14th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Josh | November 5th 21 |
| 3.0 good | espnil | February 20th 21 |
| 2.5 average | Polvo | January 11th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Jrzg85 | January 9th 21 |
| 2.5 average | gschwen | December 28th 20 |
| 3.0 good | peahat | December 4th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Trebor. EMERITUS | November 26th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jekub | November 18th 20 |
| 3.5 great | bharry | November 12th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Lucman | November 12th 20 |
| 3.0 good | Denis | November 11th 20 |
| 2.5 average | Runeii | November 3rd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | anat | November 2nd 20 |
| 4.5 superb | ASF69 | November 2nd 20 |
| 3.5 great | Sowing STAFF | November 1st 20 |
| 4.5 superb | mcjor | October 31st 20 |
| 2.5 average | jtswope | October 31st 20 |
| 3.5 great | jesper EMERITUS | October 30th 20 |
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