- Artist:
- Oneohtrix Point Never
Tranquilizer: Black Vinyl 2LP
Release date: 21 November, 2025
Tranquilizer isn’t the sound of sedation but resurfacing. Lopatin isn’t condemning our need for escape but, rather, exploring what happens after. The record maps a movement from weightless calm into something more grounded — not a hero’s journey, but the necessary cycle of withdrawal and return that keeps us sane in a world both overwhelming and mundane. We plummet from the watery bliss of “Lifeworld” into the mournful melancholy of “Cherry Blue” and twisted grooves of “Rodl Glide.” As always with OPN, the real collides with the unreal. Listen closely and you will hear the scrape of fingers on a fretboard, a stone sliding across a dungeon floor, the squeak of a door opening. His music has never been an abstract colour field; it has weight, edges, shadows. If R Plus Seven was all crystalline arpeggiators and Garden of Delete was a feverish upchuck of gurgling synths, Tranquilizer feels like falling out of a dream you can still touch.
Vinyl Tracklist
A1. For Residue
A2. Bumpy
A3. Lifeworld
A4. Measuring Ruins
B1. Modern Lust
B2. Fear of Symmetry
B3. Vestigel
C1. Cherry Blue
C2. Bell Scanner
C3. D.I.S.
C4. Tranquilizer
D1. Storm Show
D2. Petro
D3. Rodl Glide
D4. Waterfalls
- Formats:
- Vinyl 2LP
- Label:
- Warp
- Cat#:
- WARPLP411
