Oneohtrix Point Never shares "No Nightmares" video starring Oneohtrix Point Never and The Weeknd
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Magic Oneohtrix Point Never, the new studio album from artist & producer Daniel Lopatin, has been steadily gaining notoriety as one of the most acclaimed releases of the year, including praise from GQ, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the FADER, The Guardian, Clash, Le Monde, amidst best of year nods from TIME, Pitchfork, Vice, Stereogum, and many more. OPN has just deepened the visual world of the album with the release of a video for "No Nightmares", a standout track from the album with a stunning vocal performance from Abel Tesfaye aka The Weeknd, who also shares co-production credit for the album with Lopatin. The video stars both Lopatin and Tesfaye, rendered as abstract avatars traversing an ethereal CGI dream state. "No Nightmares" is directed by long-time collaborator Nate Boyce's studio Reliquary House.
Watch the video for "No Nightmares"
States Boyce, "Dan initially sent me an excerpt of 'Fear of the Inexplicable' by Rilke as a prompt to start working on our idea of a debased animation. Abel and Dan traverse psychoanalytically charged scenarios and spaces that evoke a lurid mix of art and architectural references. Eventually I started to associate the implications of the Rilke poem to the biblical story of the Binding of Isaac, an anxiety inducing story I hated as a kid that became a subtext for the latter half of the piece. Despite the fact that Abraham is thwarted by divine intervention, I was terrified by his incomprehensible zealotry and willingness to sacrifice his own child, who I identified with. This story ensured my eventual atheism, but also my ongoing fascination with how these archaic stories, symbols, and motifs have continued relevance even now, and in many ways still structure our experience. So, as it happens in the animation, this process of individuation through archetypal projection starts with heroic ideations that devolve into anxiety and fear, culminating in a carnivalesque mockery of the faith required to confront these fears."
The clip joins the previously released videos for the album in a trilogy that underscores the threads of influence of postmodern art and cult film that course through OPN's music, from Charlie Fox and Emily Schubert's entrancing stopmotion "Long Road Home" video's overt homage to Georges Schwizgebel's 1982 short film Le ravissement de Frank N. Stein to Josh and Benny Safdie's stunning psyche-bending video for "Lost But Never Alone". Also amid the release of these various visuals was the first Oneohtrix Point Never late night TV performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (watch HERE). Lopatin, on vocals, guitar, and synth, was accompanied by a live band of Eli Kezsler (drums) and Nate Boyce (guitar) to perform the album's "I Don't Love Me Anymore" in a meta visual fantasy karaoke set.
"No Nightmares" credits
"No Nightmares" performed by Oneohtrix Point Never with vocals by The Weeknd. Additional vocals by Caroline Polachek.
Written by Daniel Lopatin & Abel Tesfaye at Electric Lady Studios, New York City
"No Nightmares" music video is a Reliquary House production in collaboration with Rafael Delacruz featuring Last Renaissance.
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PRESS ON MAGIC ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER
"Magic Oneohtrix Point Never is pure and uncut OPN-a return, of sorts, to the new age sounds he explored earlier in his career, dotted with decaying radio transmissions and a soft-yet-threatening technological glow. There's a reason why this album flirts with resembling a self-titled release: it's his most personal-feeling work to date, pushing his sound toward uncharted pop territory while recalling the refracted internet-native transmissions of his earlier work." -GQ
"Magic Oneohtrix Point Never is a standout entry in a catalog with many highlights, and a good starting point for those new to Mr. Lopatin's beguiling universe of sound." - WALL STREET JOURNAL
"Lopatin has a remarkable talent for giving shape and movement to an indistinct mass of sonic matter, setting it in motion like a baton-wielding maestro conducting a murmuration of starlings....What is so moving about these radically abstracted pieces is their instability and their impermanence; they are always in the process of becoming or disintegrating, and the listener accustomed to OPN's way of working soon comes to understand that no moment of beauty will last for long; that even the most gorgeous passage will soon crumble to noise" - PITCHFORK
"Oneohtrix Point Never has always been about the ways in which music and memory coalesce; Magic makes that connection more concrete." - STEREOGUM
"...his (Oneohtrix Point Never) production and arrangements are among the most innovative in the past decade of electronic music." - VARIETY
"Magic Oneohtrix Point Never is another example of why its creator is such an in-demand and celebrated part of the genre. There's a powerful cohesion to the collection that makes it feel greater than the sum of its parts, with several standout fusions of singing and instrumentation/production as only Lopatin could yield."- CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND
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