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Dec 16, 2015Daniel Lopatin's newest Oneohtrix Point Never album is one of the more unique, powerful recordings to come out this year. It's uncomfortable but distinctly compelling.
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The WireDec 16, 2015Garden Of Delete feels more like an audio showreel than a traditional album. [Nov 2015, p.51]
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Dec 14, 2015At its best, you can get lost inside Garden of Delete’s rabbit hole of different directions and unexpected asides, but at other times it’s easy to feel shut-out, as if you’re looking in at someone’s intellectual ADHD, but he’s steadfastly refusing to meet your gaze.
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Dec 11, 2015For all its challenges and provocations, Garden Of Delete may actually be more inclusive and open than it first appears. It might be that its moments of hope and beauty (Lift) linger longer in the mind than its very varied assaults.
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Dec 3, 2015Lopatin has also called "Lift" a love song of sorts, and it's where his Garden most clearly bursts into bloom.
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Dec 2, 2015Lopatin is never quite able to stand still and enjoy some of the sounds he creates. This remains a project for only a very particular kind of pop picker.
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Nov 23, 2015Hyper, aggressive, silly and just-bloody-gorgeous, it's a perfect microcosm of the album as a whole.
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Nov 16, 2015As dense as R Plus Seven was cleanly sculpted, there's a lot to unpack within Garden of Delete, including its title: a phrase that suggests the meticulous task of editing music as well as the union of creation and destruction (and shortens to G.O.D.), it's the perfect mission statement for an album that combines past and present in surprising, and surprisingly organic ways.
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Nov 16, 2015GOD's interest in questionable styles and its elaborate backstory seem designed to keep things interesting after the giant step forward that was R Plus Seven.
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Nov 13, 2015In making a record about growing up, Lopatin’s come out on the other side in one mutated piece.
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Nov 13, 2015He may not be in our world completely yet but you should keep making the trip to his: it really is a trip.
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Nov 13, 2015Garden of Delete does manage to disturb despite its more frivolous moments.
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Nov 12, 2015It’s OPN’s most emotional work to date and also his most ridiculous. Its tragedy is bound up with its humor; its sublimity comes from the places where it feels the most broken.
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Nov 11, 2015A sound collage like no other, Garden of Delete finds Lopatin engaging listeners with an album that almost defies description.
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Nov 11, 2015It is a complex beast of shade and mood, and it's Lopatin's best work yet.
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Nov 10, 2015It is a wholly singular and groundbreaking release that, while adhering to many past and present genre trends, seems prepared to go further in collating and collaging influences than most other electronic releases dare to go.
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Nov 10, 2015Garden of Delete is the exceptional post-performance of the readability conjured in the wake of OPN’s work, and as a result, it critiques experimental culture’s desire to fetishize.
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MojoNov 9, 2015This is Lopatin's most cogent record yet. [Dec 2015, p.91]
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UncutNov 9, 2015Ultimately dissolves into a beautifully arranged and slightly sickly morass of curdled pop tropes, out of which spurt a bodacious riff or glossy rave arpeggio. Oddly no-one does this better. [Dec 2015, p.76]
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Nov 9, 2015It is more songful than anything Lopatin has done.
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Nov 9, 2015Lopatin still manages to stand out from the pack. Garden of Delete is another adventure watching your own sense of subjectivity drown in a pool of confusion.
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Nov 9, 2015GOD isn’t about sensory pleasure. It’s about sensory gluttony, auditory overload, and revelling in the difficulty of its pacing.
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Positive: 52 out of 59
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Mixed: 5 out of 59
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Negative: 2 out of 59
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