R Plus Seven

For his debut release on the reputed Warp Records imprint, Daniel Lopatin (a.k.a. Oneohtrix Point Never) draws somewhat on the compositional elements from his previous LP, Replica, but pushes them seamlessly to their breaking points—each track is a short film's worth of ideas and range. Referencing any number of touchstones from '90s Internet culture to the subtle ambient works of Aphex Twin, to Oxygene-like swells of cinematic synths, the listener is left with almost zero ability to predict where a track will lead. Yet there's never the sense of being taken unexpectedly—Oneohtrix turns sound on its head to bring you to the place you're meant to go, which is sometimes many places at once.