Oneohtrix Point Never announced his new album Tranquilizer, set for release in November via Warp Records. The announcement arrived alongside three new tracks: “For Residue,” “Bumpy,” and “Lifeworld” — offering a glimpse into a world where media decay, ambient unease and fragile beauty collide.

Rooted in a chance moment,  a routine visit to the dentist, lying beneath a fluorescent panel of blue skies and palm trees, Tranquilizer is a surreal, deeply textural record that asks what it means to escape into the past, and what we return to after. The album was sparked by Lopatin’s discovery that a vast archive of 90s sample CDs had vanished from the Internet Archive,  a moment that left Lopatin creatively charged.

Drawing from those salvaged sounds, Tranquilizer conjures a sonic hallucination: ambient calm twisting into digital chaos; mundane textures giving way to emotional overload. It’s a record shaped by obscurity and obsolescence. Real and unreal blur. Samples melt into static. A door creaks open inside a dream.

This is Oneohtrix Point Never at his most immersive,  not looking back with nostalgia, but reframing lost sound as a vessel for new emotion. Speaking about the record, Lopatin says: “It’s a record shaped by commercial audio construction kits from a bygone era— an index of cliches turned inside out. It is a return to a process-oriented form of music making for me that I felt best evoked a certain kind of madness and ennui in the heart of culture today.”

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