Oneohtrix Point Never – “Dim Stars / For Residue (Extended)”

In the hushed afterglow of Tranquilizer‘s digital erosion, Oneohtrix Point Never exhales “Dim Stars / For Residue (Extended),” a double helix of microtonal drift and unstable intimacy that arrived April 15 via Warp Records. Daniel Lopatin, post-Marty Supreme score and relentless touring, distills emotional residue into these tracks: “Dim Stars” flickers with celestial haze over Nathan Salon’s mix, while the extended “For Residue” expands a Tranquilizer Japan bonus into nine minutes of spectral unraveling.

Lopatin’s palette sharpens here, trading Tranquilizer‘s broad surrealism for pinpoint glitches and harmonic wobbles that evoke a dentist’s fluorescent limbo—intimate, unmoored, alive with latent tension. Against spring tour stops from Milano to Krems, this release signals Warp’s continued stake in experimental electronica’s uneasy core, where residue accrues meaning.

ROMBO premieres it as a portal to OPN’s next phase: not nostalgia, but the quiet persistence of stars dimming into code.
Stream/buy: Warp Records | Tour dates via pointnever.com.