Oneohtrix Point Never - Tranquilliser

Label: Warp Records – WARPLP411
Format: Vinyl, 2 x 12", LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: Nov 21, 2025
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Experimental

Daniel Lopatin returns to Warp Records with Tranquilizer, a record that reframes the familiar tension at the heart of Oneohtrix Point Never. It’s not the sound of sedation, but of resurfacing; not an escape, but an awakening.

Where R Plus Seven shimmered with crystalline arpeggiators and Garden of Delete convulsed in feverish digital spasms, Tranquilizer occupies a more grounded, tactile space. The album traces a passage from weightless calm to emotional release - a necessary cycle of withdrawal and return in a world that feels at once mundane and overwhelming.

We begin in the liquid serenity of Lifeworld, before descending through the mournful pull of Cherry Blue and the twisted, off-kilter grooves of Rodl Glide. As ever with Lopatin, the line between the real and the imagined dissolves: the scrape of fingers on strings, the hiss of air, a door slowly creaking open - hyperreal fragments that tether abstraction to something physical and intimate.

Tranquilizer is OPN at his most lucid and cinematic, mapping the afterglow of digital dreams with a renewed sense of clarity and restraint. There’s warmth here, and reflection; a sense that after years of restless experimentation, Lopatin has arrived somewhere quiet enough to listen.

Pressed on double vinyl with artwork by Nate Boyce, Tranquilizer is another landmark in OPN’s evolving universe - a record that lingers long after it ends, like a memory you can still reach out and touch.

A1. For Residue
A2. Bumpy
A3. Lifeworld
A4. 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