Replica (studio album) by Oneohtrix Point Never

From Brad1770 03/21/2020 10:52

There’s something unearthly about this album that gets under your skin and sticks in your brain with it’s strange loops of 80’s commercials all of which are unrecognisable

Criminally under appreciated album

Simply awesome

I love just listening to this album and looking at the cover art; it fits the soundscapes contained within

Favorites: Up, Child Soldier, Andro

Good album, though the middle can be a chore.

Favorite tracks: Up

B+

Man the soundscapes on this record are so potent. This gives me a Boards of Canada vibe. A melding of the sampling from Geogaddi with the dreamscapes of The Campfire Headphase. Just necessary to be listened.

From patriciatoledo 07/26/2017 20:49

Abstraction that breaks logic and recreates textures and universes in every song. Experimental ambient music as original as it gets.

From Komorebi-D 03/22/2017 11:00

An ambient-drone masterclass.

Badass record. Too bad R Plus Seven didn't hold up to this.

The one comparison that comes to mind when listening to this is F♯ A♯ ∞, Godspeed's debut. That album was the soundtrack of the apocalypse and this is the soundtrack of the void, where everything goes to die. The fact this is made of samples from old tv commercials makes me feel even more certain of that, as if they've come back from the dead, to make this droning reminder of death. His previous records felt more like landscapes, expanding, seeminglying mapping out space. This, however, is a far more intimate album, one whose truths feel far more relatable. It's his best album, even better than the masterful Returnal or Zones Without People. It's one of my favorite records of the decade. It's one of the most haunting, beautiful albums I've ever heard.

From SquishypuffDave 11/17/2012 04:04

The epitome of informed simplicity. Its cold vibrations invade my spine and bend me to its will.