Returnal

Oneohtrix Point Never

Returnal

Fifth album of drone music from Daniel Lopatin played primarily on vintage synthesizers

ADM rating[?]

7.6

Label
Editions Mego
UK Release date
21/06/2010
  1. 8.2 |   Pitchfork

    It's certainly indebted to Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. But it also sounds unusually original, which is a word you don't get to use so often
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  2. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Both beautiful and terrible at once, Returnal is the aural equivalent of a scuba dive in the open ocean
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  3. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Oneohtrix Point Never would deliver an album which ultimately both delights and baffles in equal measure
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  4. 8.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    The album seems less concerned than Rifts with bold sequences and clear mathematical progressions, and more interested in exploring the surfaces and facades of sounds
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  5. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  6. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    'Pelham Island Road' and 'Where Does Time Go' are enveloping washes of Harmonia-ish keyboards and flickering distortion; 'Ouroboros' is positively ecclesiastical
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  7. 8.0 |   The Digital Fix

    Lopatin's prolific nature doesn't seem to have diluted his sound at all, and this album sees him on wonderfully wacked-out form
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  8. 7.5 |   Prefix

    If other purveyors of nostalgia like Washed Out and the Caretaker evoke the lost past of A.M. pop radio or haunted ballroom dance floors, Oneohtrix Point Never deals in cheap sci-fi novels and hack millennial forecasts
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  9. 6.8 |   Beats Per Minute

    A cinematic, flowing story. It will scare you, soothe you, and will cause your mind to create its own visual landscape
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