Best of the year: Kirill Ivanov advises electronic album
2015 IS FITTING THE END. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the year turned out to be saturated, including culturally. To dot the “and” and make sure that nothing important had passed by, we asked experts in various fields to tell about the brightest books, films, albums and other cultural events. In the sixth issue, the frontman and ideologist of the group "The Biggest Simple Number" Kirill Ivanov advises to listen to one of the most interesting albums of the year.
Kirill Ivanov
leader of the group "NBHR"
In 2014, Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never went to warm up on the Soundgarden and Nine Inch Nails tour. For these speeches, he composed a special, more “tough” program, as he himself said. On tour, he talked a lot with the musicians of two super popular rock bands. All this clearly influenced Lopatin's new album. "Garden of Delete" is a bold and witty record, which combines completely different - as if from different universes - tools, techniques, elements. And most notably the influence of rock. Zapily, pathos - all this signs of stadium monsters. Lopatin makes them "his", uses for his "mosaic", collected as if from pieces, of music.
Switching between sounds, styles, while turning them into a distinctive, very recognizable mess of everything from trap to jazz - Oneohtrix Point Never knocks pathos, removes all superficial and funny, takes this music sincerely, seriously. Earlier this year, Lopatin wrote an essay about the album Kenny G. It contains, among other things, the idea that almost all stamps and the most stupid things can be made great by putting them in a different context. But some things do not give in, there is nothing good in them, that's just the Kenny G record, such, writes Lopatin.
That's about this album "Garden of Delete" - about the fact that there is a place for almost all sounds. What of all you can do something healthy. You just need to think. Very witty - in every sense - plate. The record of an intelligent man, ironic over everything at once. And very scary. Tense, you never know what will happen next. This is a brave and successful attempt to connect acoustic (or copying them) instruments with a very computerized, synthetic sound. This is a real musical adventure. Cool stuff! To hell "albums of the year", listen to this!