Oneohtrix Point Never (aka Daniel Lopatin), whose experimental sonic musings have incorporated everything from noisy drone sounds to 1980s commercials, has a new album coming out in October on Warp called R Plus Seven. It follows on from 2011's Replica andlooks set to be just as mindmelting as his previous work.The first taster off the new album has just been released and is an excerpt from the track "Still Life", which is described as "Drawing from layered roots in his Saatchi & Saatchi Cannes Installation 2012, Doug Aitken's Happening, and atmospheric looping reminiscent of Replica, Lopatin pushes the disembodied voices of a choir through a maze, which he likens to a hallucinogenic browse of a video store's horror section."Still from "Still Life (Excerpt)"And if that isn't enough weirdness, then just check out the video that accompanies it by artist Nate Boyce. To give you some idea of what you're looking at, here's how Boyce describes the visuals:Incongruous surfaces come together in a nexus of fetishistic material interactions. Cryptic ads for obscure objects, fragments of sculptural forms, and remnants of material surfaces are thrown into the mix with bulging semi-solids, unctuous quasi-liquids that are agitated into an animated flow. There is no resolution other than the suspension of these discrete elements from diverging orders: liquid, mineral, organic, consumerist, etc. Their interactions simply propose a language that is looked at as it inheres in the plasticity of texture. This is the language of morphogenesis—the process of approaching form—imagined as a pulsatile latency that stops short of emergence.Precisely.@stewart23rd
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