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Dec 1, 2025He sounds freer than he has in years on Tranquilizer, and within its infinity mirror of transience and permanence, he uncovers the lasting soul within the digital abyss.
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Nov 17, 2025This is provisional, ethereal work, always in flux, and Oneothrix Point Never’s brand of computerized music has rarely sounded this pulsatingly vibrant.
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Nov 17, 2025Lopatin doesn’t just wring moments of grin-inducing audacity from the archive, though, but a startling degree of emotional range too. .... It’s a magic trick he pulls off again on Tranquilizer: sifting through the graveyard of our computers’ dreaming and conjuring something enchanting.
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Nov 17, 2025Tranquilizer is the most immediately pleasurable Oneohtrix Point Never album in some time.
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Dec 11, 2025It’s his best work since Replica, and the most complete realization of his long-running obsession with the imperfect persistence of time. Tranquilizer doesn’t just show you a world—it shows you how that world remembers itself.
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Apr 10, 2026If Lopatin's recent albums wowed with their density, Tranquilizer highlights the preciousness of its constituent parts by making it sound like they might flit away at any second.
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Nov 24, 2025Tranquilizer is Oneohtrix Point Never’s return to a form that feels both especially called for and markedly beautiful.
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Nov 20, 2025Tranquilizer seems unlikely to help you calm down. It’s too kaleidoscopic and restless, too crammed with sounds: an album that demands – and repays – your full attention, rather than simply drifting by.
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Nov 17, 2025A saviour of lost noise, it's plunderphonics at its finest and most process-oriented, data and the digital transmogrified to something warm, nostalgic, tense — and, above all, timely.
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Dec 1, 2025In the streaming age many records are front-loaded to cater to short attention spans, so Tranquilizer deserves kudos for placing two of its most interesting tracks at the end.