Oneohtrix Point Never – Magic Oneohtrix Point Never (2LP)

Album Info Hide Show Artist: Oneohtrix Point Never Album: Magic Oneohtrix Point Never Released: Worldwide, 2020 Tracklist: A1 Cross Talk I A2 Auto & Allo A3 Long Road Home A4 Cross Talk II B1 I Don’t Love Me Anymore B2 Bow Ecco B3 The Whether Channel B4 No Nightmares C1 Cross Talk III C2 Tales From The Trash Stratum C3 Answering Machine C4 Imago C5 Cross Talk IV / Radio Lonelys D1 Lost But Never Alone D2 Shifting D3 Wave Idea D4 Nothing’s Special Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. 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If the record arrives damaged or doesn’t arrive we will cover the cost of replacing or returning the record. If you change your mind you have 30 days to return your record but you must cover the cost of returning it to the store. You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show Magic Oneohtrix Point Never landed on 30 October 2020 via Warp, and it still feels like tuning a radio at 2 am when the world goes a bit unreal. Daniel Lopatin has always treated the airwaves like a memory palace, but this one circles back to the origin story. His stage name riffs on Boston soft rock station Magic 106.7, and here he builds a whole imaginary broadcast around it. You get station IDs, little blips of chatter, and those gauzy transitions he calls Cross Talk, so the record plays like a mutating dial scan that keeps finding new worlds just off frequency. Its also one of his most collaborative sets. Caroline Polachek floats through Long Road Home, her voice braided with Lopatins into something glassy and yearning. The Weeknd shows up on No Nightmares, and hes credited as an executive producer too, which fits. The two had been working together around that time, and you can hear some shared DNA in the way Lopatin frames pop songwriting with a strange, woozy halo. Nolanberollin bolts into The Whether Channel with a deadpan verse that snaps the dream wide awake, which is exactly the trick this album keeps pulling. It seduces you into a soft-focus memory, then flicks the light on. Auto & Allo is the welcome message, all prismatic keys and pitch-bent voices that feel part hymn, part TV ident. I Dont Love Me Anymore is a curveball that still makes me grin. Lopatin leans into fuzzed guitars and a brittle hook, like a rock song beamed in from a half-remembered music video. Lost But Never Alone has that same daylight shimmer, the kind of track that could fool you into thinking its a classic you once taped off FM and then wore the cassette out. The sequencing keeps you moving between intimacy and theatre. One minute its a private confessional, the next youre in a neon-lit lobby in 1989 with a muzak version of your feelings drifting from a ceiling speaker. What makes it stick is the craft. Lopatin is a magpie, but hes not sentimental about it. The textures feel lived-in yet sharp, like someone buffed an old chrome radio until it reflects a new skyline. He pulls from synth pop, new age, soft rock, rap, left-field ambient, and then sets it all in a radio drama that never turns kitsch. The Cross Talk cuts arent just skits. Theyre editing choices that control your sense of time and place, a reminder that the whole thing is a broadcast with a fallible human at the desk. No Nightmares is the emotional centre. The Weeknds voice is feather-light here, and Lopatin cushions it with sighing harmonies and tiny rhythmic hiccups that make the lyric feel frail and human. Long Road Home is a favourite for the opposite reason. Polachek and Lopatin sound like theyre phasing in and out of the same daydream, not quite touching, and when the beat settles it feels like a promise kept. The Whether Channel earns its turn, pivoting into grit just as the station might switch formats after midnight. Critics heard it too. The album drew broad praise on release, with Pitchfork tagging it Best New Music and The Guardian handing it strong marks. It reads as a key chapter for him, a bridge between the fractured collages of R Plus Seven and Garden of Delete and the more overt pop entanglements that followed. If you came in through the Uncut Gems score or through The Weeknd, this is a generous place to settle in and understand how he works. If youre crate-digging in a Melbourne record store or trawling vinyl records Australia late at night, the Magic Oneohtrix Point Never vinyl pressing is the way to experience it. The side breaks make narrative sense, and those sweeping fades bloom on wax. Its also an easy recommendation if youre trying to buy Oneohtrix Point Never records online and want one that shows his range without losing the plot. There are plenty of Oneohtrix Point Never albums on vinyl worth grabbing, but this one feels like the cleverest doorway into his world. Consider it a phantom station that keeps finding you, even when youre not looking, and a reminder that the static between songs can say as much as the chorus. And if youre simply searching Oneohtrix Point Never vinyl to see where to start, this broadcast is still live. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review