Oneohtrix Point Never: Returnal

"Oneohtrix Point Never … generally forgoes percussion altogether, instead creating beautiful, glistening caverns of space. … For his set, which was essentially one long, mostly improvised composition, Mr. Lopatin primarily played a synthesizer routed through a sea of effects pedals, holding fatty notes until they bent or became distended. Fading in and out of focus were guttural burps and sharp sirens, high sounds that suggested birdcalls and something that sounded like a steel drum played underwater, among other noises. Sometimes he tilted tentatively toward the microphone and opened his mouth, adding a dollop of vocals to the mix, though rarely enough to steer the tide. The engrossing, occasionally hallucinatory recent Oneohtrix Point Never album, 'Returnal' … is less obscure than this show was, taking cues from frothy 1980s electro and the meatier, less embarrassing end of early New Age music" (Jon Caramanica, "Floating and Bobbing in an Oceanic Swell of Sound," New York Times, 8/30/10).

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