Replica - Oneohtrix Point Never
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80 out of 100

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8.3 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 14 Ratings

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  • Summary: The sixth album for Brooklyn-based electronic artist Daniel Lopatin utilizes samples of 1980's commercials.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 32
  3. Negative: 0 out of 32
  1. Tiny Mix Tapes
    Nov 4, 2011
    100
    It's unlike anything else in Lopatin's discography, not just a bold step sideways, but something like an epistemological break from an artist whose work increasingly bears the weight of something like hegemony.
  2. New Musical Express (NME)
    Dec 13, 2011
    80
    Following on from a confusing but rewarding double-disc anthology, 'Rifts', in 2009 and the sublime space scapes of 'Returnal' in 2010, 'Replica' is a rallying call for people who don't see synthesisers purely as objects of retro-fetishism, but rather as agents of future creative potential.
  3. Mojo
    Jan 12, 2012
    80
    Simultaneously beautiful and unsettling, it moves from stuttering rhythms of ghost vocals and music loops to immersive multi-layered waves of digital polyphony. [Dec. 2011 p. 99]
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  4. Uncut
    Nov 23, 2011
    60
    Replica feels less dreamy, more disquieting. [Dec 2011, p.92]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. Lolasaurus
    10
    Most important minimalist (not really) / experimental / noise album since the Disintegration Loops. But if you're reading this you probably already know that.… Expand
  2. Vinicelli
    9
    At first, a harsh, slashing cascade of looping sound seeming to bubble up from a sea of warm synth tones. No album without words will ever give you the same chilling feel that Replica achieves. Piano and glitchy fragments collide like nothing ever before, and probably anything we will ever see. It's like wiring your brain into a broken circuit board, with audible arcs of electricity zapping throughout. If you haven't yet, give Replica a listen. Then listen to it again, and again. If it doesn't grow on you, take a walk through the woods with the title track, listen to Child Soldier with your favorite audio visualizer, and close your eyes and imagine the lush soundscape of Andro. This is a dense, beautiful testament to it's genre, and music itself.… Expand
  3. rollandscream
    8
    album with a great concept ( â
  4. MonsieurMazure
    1
    A la fin d'en faire trop autour de ces groupes, certains croient qu'il font de grands albums. Malheureusement ici on s'ennuie du début à la fin, on le sait déjà ce genre d'album sera oublié quelques mois après. D'ailleurs c'est déjà fait.… Expand

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