CRUELTY Presents:
Artist...: Oneohtrix Point Never
Album....: Returnal
Label....: Editions Mego
Size.....: 55,2 MB
Source...: CDDA
Playtime.: 42:02 min
Genre....: Electronic
Release..: Jun-02-2010
Encoder..: LAME V3.97 -V2 --Vbr-New
Quality..: avgkbps 44.1Hz Joint-Stereo
TrackList:
01 05:06 Nil Admirari
02 04:19 Describing Bodies
03 05:43 Stress Waves
04 04:42 Returnal
05 07:35 Pelham Island Road
06 06:25 Where Does Time Go
07 02:02 Ouroboros
08 06:10 Preyouandi
Release Notes:
DEF did the -web- release, here is our retail rip!
æReturnalÆ is the fourth album from Daniel LopatinÆs Oneohtrix Point Never project,
after æBetrayed In The OctagonÆ (Deception Island, 2007), æZones Without PeopleÆ
(Arbor, 2009) and æRussian MindÆ (No Fun, 2009). All 3 albums being superbly compiled
on the æRiftsÆ double CD set (No Fun, 2009).
It sees Lopatin fine tune his craft for creation of deep atmospheres and texture even
further. Starting off with the mind blowing triptych of æNil AdmiariÆ/ÆDescribing
BodiesÆ/ÆStress WavesÆ, which fires off into a noise/rhythm excess before entering
a zone of relative calm building to the melancholy of the final part. This set the
tone perfectly for the albums title track, a stunning out of this world ballad
featuring Lopatin's near desperate vocal delivery, ending what could be seen as one
of his most chilling and thought provoking sides to date.
The atmosphere is slightly lifted as the darkened sun comes up over the ruins on æPelham
Island RoadÆ and æWhere Does Time GoÆ, with the album closing with edgy broken beats and
fourth world possible landscapes of æPreyouandiÆ, which fades into the distance with
echoes of the æReturnalÆ chorus, closing the loop.
What's burnt into memory here is LopatinÆs love affair with the long, slow path back home...
the cycle... the hypnotic sector... the ghost in the machine... and whether people are
making dance music or hip hop or space head music or metal, the ouroboros is present in
every sector -- as it was in Bach's study, and in the elephant songs of the Ituri forests.