Oneohtrix Point Never makes a confident foray into film scores with Good Time Oneohtrix Point Never, Good Time OST Grade: B+ [Warp] Advertisement Daniel Lopatin has done film scores before (The Bling Ring, Partisan), but never under his Oneohtrix Point Never moniker. Of course, you could argue that most of his Oneohtrix albums are basically film scores. His early, melancholy synth-scapes, as collected on 2013’s Rifts, reflected murky sci-fi dreams in both their aesthetic and in titles like “Terminator Lake.” And while he’s expanded on that palette since, the liquid textures, vaporous sighs, and bursts of pixilated noise he’s incorporated continue to occupy a place somewhere between music and sound design. Still, it seems significant that Lopatin has delivered this score for the upcoming Robert Pattinson crime thriller Good Time under the Oneohtrix name—an implicit demand that it be considered in the context of that project, rather than as a side gig. In that sense, Good Time makes an auspicious addition to the Oneohtrix catalogue, having already picked up the Soundtrack Award at this year’s Cannes and landed several complimentary callouts in early reviews, which means it’s been garnering attention from people not normally given to experimental electronic music. Still,… Read full this story
- Charly Bliss, The Black Angels, Incubus, and more in this week’s music reviews
- Music Review: DJ Shadow back with an album to mark the times
- Music Review: The Time Jumpers find joy in their work
- Dirty Projectors, Deafheaven, and more albums to know about this week
- A country-music star is born in the Scottish honky-tonk drama
- The Breeders, Camp Cope, and more albums to know about this week
- Wye Oak, Eels, and more albums to know about this week
- Marillion review – unfashionable prog veterans still questing into unknown
- Migos: Culture review – bling culture’s Beatles don’t disappoint
- Review: Charli XCX Commits to Avant-Pop Partnership on ‘Number 1 Angel’
Oneohtrix Point Never, Frankie Rose, GBV, and more in this week’s music reviews have 309 words, post on music.avclub.com at August 11, 2017. This is cached page on Vietnam Art News. If you want remove this page, please contact us.