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Oneohtrix Point Never recently announced the October 30th arrival of new studio album, Magic Oneohtrix Point Never, with a preview of his first new music since 2018's critically lauded Age Of and 2019's Uncut Gems soundtrack. The opening trilogy of songs, aptly named "Drive Time Suite", spotlight OPN's incredible propensity for maximalist detail but here with a refreshingly earnest and enlightened approach, with tracks "Cross Talk I," "Auto & Allo," and the first single "Long Road Home", which finds Lopatin singing front and center, backed by vocal contributions from Caroline Polachek.
Today, OPN shares the new video for "Long Road Home", co-directed by the cross-Atlantic creative duo of Charlie Fox (UK) and Emily Schubert (US). In homage to Georges Schwizgebel's 1982 short film Le ravissement de Frank N. Stein, which was also featured on the cover of Oneohtrix Point Never's 2013 album R Plus Seven, the perfectly paired visual plays voyeur to seemingly sinister and otherworldly creatures as they become romantically entangled. The courtship dances wildly between basic human emotion and erotic dark humor, making fantasy and reality one and the same.
'It's a romantic fable about love and transformation, which grew out of a lot of wild philosophical conversations with Dan over the summer. We wanted to take these supposedly grotesque or demonic creatures and turn them into the weirdly adorable and heartbreaking protagonists of this courtship ritual. For a song that seems to be sung by something mutant and magical in a time when intimacy is craved and feared, it felt like a hot match; it just felt good inside. And all this stuff started oozing out.' - co-directors Charlie Fox and Emily Schubert
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR "LONG ROAD HOME"
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"LONG ROAD HOME" VIDEO CREDITS
Directors: Charlie Fox and Emily Schubert
Story: Charlie Fox and Daniel Lopatin
Director of Photography: Ben Carey
Animator: Victoria Arslani
Producer: Eliza Ryan
Puppet Design and Fabrication: Emily Schubert
Title Cards: Robert Beatty
Digital Animation: Robert Beatty and Nicole Ginelli
Editors: Will Rahilly
VFX: Arvin Bautista, Nicole Ginelli and Will Rahilly
Story Board Artist: Sami Kerwin
Set Designer: Peter Vicrey
Color: Samuel Gursky
Digital Compositor: Miles Martinez and Kris Sundberg
Scenic: Nathaniel Matthews
Production Assistant: Kenzo Perron
Production: Izzy Cohan, LLC
A Dank Beasts Production
Story: Charlie Fox and Daniel Lopatin
Director of Photography: Ben Carey
Animator: Victoria Arslani
Producer: Eliza Ryan
Puppet Design and Fabrication: Emily Schubert
Title Cards: Robert Beatty
Digital Animation: Robert Beatty and Nicole Ginelli
Editors: Will Rahilly
VFX: Arvin Bautista, Nicole Ginelli and Will Rahilly
Story Board Artist: Sami Kerwin
Set Designer: Peter Vicrey
Color: Samuel Gursky
Digital Compositor: Miles Martinez and Kris Sundberg
Scenic: Nathaniel Matthews
Production Assistant: Kenzo Perron
Production: Izzy Cohan, LLC
A Dank Beasts Production
Credit: David Brandon Geeting
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