{"id":13148,"date":"2018-06-25T13:42:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T03:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/?p=13148"},"modified":"2021-01-31T05:07:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T05:07:44","slug":"new-music-oneohtrix-point-never-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2018\/06\/25\/new-music-oneohtrix-point-never-age\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW MUSIC. Oneohtrix Point Never &#039;Age Of&#8230;&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-11-at-1.43.54-pm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13149\" src=\"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-11-at-1.43.54-pm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"557\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAs a long-time fan of\u00a0<strong>Oneohtrix Point Never<\/strong>, I was disheartened that his last album\u00a0<em>Garden Of Delete<\/em>\u00a0was so difficult to love. It was a bloody-minded record, daring us to enjoy a dense, arhythmical odyssey, all the while knowing that it was essentially impenetrable. <!--more-->Thankfully, the follow-up is almost a complete U-turn, rippling with beautiful broken vocoder pop, lush electronics and a starring role for the harpsichord. It\u2019s as bold as it is unorthodox, a breath-taking revision of electronic music and modern composition. It proves that true originality and innovation need not repel, but can instead deliver a warm embrace, and reassure us that this\u00a0<em>Age Of\u2026\u00a0<\/em>whatever is going to work out just fine.<br \/>\n<em>Taken from Double J&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/doublej.net.au\/news\/features\/the-20-best-albums-of-2018-so-far\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20 best albums of 2018 so far<\/a>\u2019. You\u2019ll find all the other love letters from the JJ fam at <a href=\"http:\/\/doublej.net.au\/news\/features\/the-20-best-albums-of-2018-so-far\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Double J website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a long-time fan of\u00a0Oneohtrix Point Never, I was disheartened that his last album\u00a0Garden Of Delete\u00a0was so difficult to love. It was a bloody-minded record, daring us to enjoy a dense, arhythmical odyssey, all the while knowing that it was essentially impenetrable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[453],"tags":[284,1610],"class_list":["post-13148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-oneohtrix-point-never","tag-stuartbuchanan-blog","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15272,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13148\/revisions\/15272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}