Tranquilizer isn’t the sound of sedation but resurfacing. Daniel Lopatin, aka Oneohtrix Point Never, 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 spastic grooves of 'Rodl Glide.' As always with Oneohtrix Point Never, 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 color 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. Available as:Clear 2LP vinyl in printed inner sleeve in gatefold outer sleeve. Black 2LP vinyl in printed inner sleeve in gatefold outer sleeve CD in 6 panel digipak TracklistA1. For ResidueA2. BumpyA3. LifeworldA4. Measuring RuinsB1. Modern LustB2. Fear of SymmetryB3. VestigelC1. Cherry BlueC2. Bell ScanneC3. D.I.S.C4. TranquilizerD1. Storm ShowD2. PetroD3. Rodl GlideD4. Waterfalls
