Oneohtrix Point Never will release his Garden of Delete LP tomorrow on Warp Records. “Ezra” is the newest audio installment from Daniel Lopatin‘s twisted cyber-saga. If you haven’t been following the lead-up to this album’s release, you might have some catching up to do…suffice it to say, though, the narrative[contextly_sidebar id=”4u7ObwoEfJFbaIYs5IXpsEve3NpK8Xz9″]surrounds Ezra, an extremely talented street kid with a seriously alien skin disorder.
Not sure if any of that is truly needed to appreciate Lopatin’s increasingly left-of-field compositional style, but the intriguing storyline does help frame Garden of Delete‘s dizzying sonic approach. “Ezra”‘s fragmented samples are meticulously re-sutured back together thru the musician’s hyperactive, next-gen sequencing. With audio references that channel surf the bargain bin of the recent past, as well as EDM’s bleeding-edge-nightlies, Lopatin juggles structural decisions with the speed and acumen of a chess master–all the while couching the emotive qualities of his music in a wildly shifting palette of sonic textures that can be heard, as well as felt!
Oneohtrix Point Never is currently touring with his longtime visual collaborator Nate Boyce. You can checkout the upcoming dates below…
11/20 New York, NY – Villain [SOLD OUT]
11/23 Vancouver, BC – Venue *
11/24 Seattle, WA – Neumos *
11/25 Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge *
11/27 San Francisco, CA – The Independent *
11/28 Los Angeles, CA – The Regent Theater *
12/03 Tokyo, JP – Liquidroom
12/04 Osaka, JP – Fanj Twice
12/06 Seoul, KR – Sang Sang Madang
2016–
02/19/2016 Reykjavik, IS – Sonar Reykjavik
02/27/2016 Stockholm, SE – Sonar Stockholm
(* w/ James Ferraro)
