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Oneohtrix Point Never releases self-directed video for Black Snow

Oneohtrix Point Never releases self-directed video for "Black Snow"

"Black Snow" is the first song released from the forthcoming album Age Of (June 1)
Brings MYRIAD live show to NYC's Park Avenue Armory & London's Barbican (two NYC shows already sold out and very few remaining for the others)

 

Today, Oneohtrix Point Never (OPN / Daniel Lopatin) releases the visionary "Black Snow" alongside a striking self-directed video. "Black Snow" is the first song to be released from the forthcoming album Age Of (June 1, Warp Records).

 

Watch: https://opn.lnk.to/BlackSnow-video

Listen: https://opn.lnk.to/BlackSnow

 

The lyrics on "Black Snow" take their inspiration from Nick Land and the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit he co-founded; a 1990's collective of artist-philosophers that produced works of performance art, poetry and fiction and is most definitely worth a late-night internet spiral or two. The original text is detourned into a lyric that equates the incomprehensible hugeness of nuclear war to UHF fuzz, whilst addressing the idea that we are a species destined for confusion. The song's breakdown is courtesy of a uniqle instrument invented by Hans Reichel in 1987 called the Daxophone, and the outro is dominated by a house music-inspired organ riff shot through waves of noise. An extremely catchy, mutated pop song whose ancestry might fall somewhere between the mood of The Seventh Continent and Bruce Cockburn's "If I Had A Rocket Launcher."

Terrifying and comforting in turns, OPN juggles beautiful pop riffs with demented minimalism and gut-grasping harmony, plunging into deep seas of color and tearing out threads of melody. The material may feel alien, but the scale of the thing is most decidedly - and affectingly - human. We are in for something truly special.

 

 

'Age Of' Tracklist

01 Age Of

02 Babylon

03 Manifold

04 The Station

05 Toys 2

06 Black Snow

07 myriad.industries

08 Warning

09 We'll Take It

10 Same

11 RayCats

12 Still Stuff That Doesn't Happen

13 Last Known Image of a Song

 

Formats

LP - in printed inner in 3mm outer sleeve, DL card, Packed in custom printed plastic bag

CD - in maxi single jewel case, half width custom inlay, 16pp booklet attached with glue dot to pack of case, packed in custom printed plastic bag

LP/CD+T-Shirt - exclusive bundle available from http://pointnever.com

Digital

 

PREORDER

Images of these unique physical editions are coming soon

 

ALBUM CREDITS -

Written, performed and produced by Oneohtrix Point Never

Additional production by James Blake

 

Mixed by James Blake

Assisted by Gabriel Schuman, Joshua Smith and Evan Sutton

Mix on Raycats and Still Stuff That Doesn't Happen by Gabriel Schuman

Additional production and mix on Toys 2 by Evan Sutton

Engineered by Gabriel Schuman and Evan Sutton

Assisted by Brandon Peralta

Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound

 

Oneohtrix Point Never - Lead voice on Babylon, The Station, Black Snow, Still Stuff That Doesn't Happen

Prurient - Voice on Babylon, Warning and Same

Kelsey Lu - Keyboards on Manifold and Last Known Image Of A Song

Anohni - Voice on Black Snow, We'll Take It, Same and Still Stuff That Doesn't Happen

Eli Keszler - Drums on Black Snow, Warning, Raycats and Still Stuff That Doesn't Happen

James Blake - Keyboards on We'll Take It, Still Stuff That Doesn't Happen and Same

Shaun Trujillo - Words on Black Snow, The Station and Still Stuff That Doesn't Happen

 

Black Snow lyrics inspired by The Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, published by Time Spiral Press (2015)

Age Of contains a sample of Blow The Wind by Jocelyn Pook

myriad.industries contains a sample of Echospace by Gil Trythall

Manifold contains a spoken word sample from Overture (Aararat the Border Crossing) by Tayfun

Erdem and a keyboard sample from Reharmonization by Julian Bradley

 

Album art and design by David Rudnick & Oneohtrix Point Never

 

Cover image

Jim Shaw

The Great Whatsit, 2017

acrylic on muslin

53 x 48 inches (134.6 x 121.9 cm)

Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York

 

MYRIAD Live

22 May - Presented by Red Bull Music Festival New York and Park Avenue Armory at the Armory, New York City, USA [SOLD OUT]

24 May - Presented by Red Bull Music Festival New York and Park Avenue Armory at the Armory, New York City, USA, 7pm Buy Tickets [Selling fast] (on sale 10am EST Thurs April 5)

24 May - Presented by Red Bull Music Festival New York and Park Avenue Armory at the Armory, New York City, USA [SOLD OUT]

07 July - The Barbican, London, UK Buy tickets [Selling fast]

 

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For more information, contact Matt Hanks, James Rainis or Greg Jakubik at Shore Fire Media, (718) 522-7171.