Album Review: Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden Of Delete

Engaging with Daniel Lopatin's dense sound collages is tough but rewarding.

The perennial genre outsider returns with Garden Of Delete and while it can't really hold a candle to 2009's monumental Rifts, it holds its own as a testament to both Lopatin's talent as a sound hound and music's ability to transcend itself when required.

Garden Of Delete is also a strong attempt to throw off the "drone" label most writers have tried to pin on him, with the album full of writhing digital pieces full of detail and life. Mutant Standard is mad as hell, and Sticky Drama is the shuffling corpse of a hundred R&B tunes stitched together with ruthless glee.