Product Code: WET30288531
Original price was: $32.99.$19.79Current price is: $19.79.Replica, released on November 8, 2011, is the fifth studio album by Oneohtrix Point Never (Daniel Lopatin), and his first album recorded in a proper studio environment. The record marks a pivot in his aestheticshifting from synth-based minimalism toward a densely layered, sample-driven approach. Lopatin builds the album almost entirely from fragments of television advertisements (1980s and 1990s TV commercials), manipulating found audio into circular loops, textures, and abstract soundscapes. Replica feels like a fractured soundtrack to a media-saturated present: echoes, stutters, and spectral voices loom amid drifting harmonies and distortion. Structurally, Replica plays like a suite of micro-episodes. Tracks like Sleep Dealer, Nassau, and the title piece spin from skeletal ideas into richer emotional environments, balancing repetition with rupture. Lopatins restraint invites listeners into active engagementsmall shifts in tone, the bleed of one sample into another, and silence become part of the narrative. Over time, Replica has been acclaimed as a pivotal moment in Lopatins career and in experimental electronic music more broadly, influencing how found sound and ambient abstraction can inhabit the pop periphery.
Reviews
Replica, which also happens to be Lopatins best work to date by far, is coming from somewhere else. Pitchfork
Even at his most horizontal the loops mean hes always trading in rhythm, Sleep Dealer and Nassau snap and skip like warped lock-grooves. Resident Advisor
Replica develops a tone somewhere between the melancholy of impending meltdown and the enchantment of infinite space. Treble
A1 Andro
A2 Power Of Persuasion
A3 Sleep Dealer
A4 Remember
A5 Replica
B1 Nassau
B2 Submersible
B3 Up
B4 Child Soldier
B5 Explain
