CD tracklist: 01. Cross Talk I 02. Auto & Allo 03. Long Road Home 04. Cross Talk II 05. I Don’t Love Me Anymore 06. Bow Ecco 07. The Whether Channel 08. No Nightmares 09. Cross Talk III 10. Tales From The Trash Stratum 11. Answering Machine 12. Imago 13. Cross Talk IV / Radio Lonelys 14. Lost But Never Alone 15. Shifting 16. Wave Idea 17. Nothing’s Special The end of 2019 was soundtracked by one of the most unanimously critically acclaimed film scores of recent history, an anxiety-driven joyride paired to the Safdie Brothers’ noir thriller Uncut Gems. Unknowingly, Lopatin captured a universal feeling of dread that cuts even deeper in the current state of world affairs. And now, just as many artists are leaning into a newly discovered darkness as this year closes, Lopatin turns his dial towards a frequency of profound self-awareness on an even deeper journey inwards towards peace. With the backdrop of re-imagined programming for a soft rock-era format that symbolically spans from morning drive into late night hours, Magic Oneohtrix Point Never, the name a reference to a misheard play on words of Boston’s Magic 106.7, is a nostalgic and self-referential career defining body of work, collaging maximalist baroque within atmospheric glitter. Here Lopatin has mastered his own autobiography; an ornate musical double entendre from an artist making the most enlightened music of his career.
