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)
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
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
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