Tranquilizer

EDITORIAL REVIEWS Tranquilizer isn’t the sound of sedation but resurfacing. Daniel Lopatin isn’t condemning our need for escape, but exploring what happens after. The record maps a movement from weightless calm into something more grounded, 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 OPN, 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. Tranquilizer feels like falling out of a dream you can still touch. A1. For Residue A2. Bumpy A3. Lifeworld A4. 04. Measuring Ruins B1. Modern Lust B2. Fear of Symmetry B3. Vestigel C1. Cherry Blue C2. Bell Scanner C3. D.I.S. C4. Tranquilizer D1. Storm Show D2. Petro D3. Rodl Glide D4. Waterfalls