Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica

Mexican Summer/Software

November 8th, 2021 marks the 10th anniversary of one of the finest works of the 2010's music scene. Oneohtrix Point Never's (OPN) magnificent mental undoing 'Replica' melts, molds and seeps into its surroundings like the atmosphere of a haunted house. Always present but irrefutably permeates from the distant past.

Replica depicts the barren wastelands that all of us find within our own minds. It wanders within and around your peripheral thoughts surveying the scenery. It tip-toes around your head space traversing the inner workings of your being. It's the perfect soundtrack for deeper self examination and exploration of our psychological state. The material sounds sentient. As if it knows all your wasted potential and wrongdoings. All the slip-ups and time dripped down the drain. It somehow knows. On the flip side it knows your efforts and setbacks. The stress and strain that you've been under. It feels like Replica is in a constant state of re-aligning some maladjusted circuitry. Iterating incrementally to loosen the latches and tighten the bolts and vice versa.

You can't talk about this album without nostalgia being brought into the equation. Replica is efficacious in its attempts to bring the past forward to the present moment. You can run from your past but you will never outrun it. It will find you and make you pay for your dismal deeds.

Replica is credited as being Daniel Lopatin's first project recorded in a studio.

The artwork is the work of Virgil Finlay, illustrated in 1936. Of course the artwork would be pulled from the distant past, it had to be.

November 8th, 2011.