{"id":9780,"date":"2015-12-17T14:48:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T17:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/?p=9780"},"modified":"2015-12-17T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T17:48:13","slug":"culturedarms-songs-of-the-month-november-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/culturedarms-songs-of-the-month-november-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Culturedarm&#8217;s Songs of the Month (November 2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10009\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oneohtrix-Point-Never-Garden-of-Delete-1.jpg?resize=696%2C464&ssl=1\" alt=\"Oneohtrix Point Never Garden of Delete 1\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oneohtrix-Point-Never-Garden-of-Delete-1.jpg?w=1200&ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oneohtrix-Point-Never-Garden-of-Delete-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oneohtrix-Point-Never-Garden-of-Delete-1.jpg?resize=768%2C512&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oneohtrix-Point-Never-Garden-of-Delete-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oneohtrix-Point-Never-Garden-of-Delete-1.jpg?resize=370%2C247&ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oneohtrix-Point-Never-Garden-of-Delete-1.jpg?resize=570%2C380&ssl=1 570w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oneohtrix-Point-Never-Garden-of-Delete-1.jpg?resize=770%2C513&ssl=1 770w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oneohtrix-Point-Never-Garden-of-Delete-1.jpg?resize=1170%2C780&ssl=1 1170w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oneohtrix-Point-Never-Garden-of-Delete-1.jpg?resize=870%2C580&ssl=1 870w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oneohtrix-Point-Never-Garden-of-Delete-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&ssl=1 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Oneohtrix Point Never \u2013 \u2018Sticky Drama\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On 13 November Oneohtrix Point Never released <em>Garden of Delete<\/em>, his\u00a0seventh studio album and the second to come out on Warp,\u00a0having set the scene over preceding months <a href=\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/cultureteca-23-08-15\/\">courtesy of an interview with a humanoid alien named Ezra, backdated blog posts\u00a0narrating a musical coming-of-age through the apocryphal \u2018hypergrunge\u2019 band Kaos Edge, and teasers posted \u2013 and sometimes removed \u2013 on Twitter, SoundCloud, and YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oneohtrix Point Never\u2019s Daniel Lopatin used \u2018Sticky Drama\u2019 at the start of November to herald the coming of <em>Garden of Delete<\/em>. With a prologue\u00a0that introduces\u00a0a grungy science fiction story, in which adolescents are compelled\u00a0by virtual pets enthroned in layers of fat and slime, the track\u2019s music video elaborates on the warfare\u00a0that ensues. Both the prologue and the music video were filmed by Lopatin and Jon Rafman.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Sticky Drama\u2019 is musically dense, with distended, pitch-shifted vocals over scuzzy electronics and the relentless surge of\u00a0the drums, but it still manages to express a duality:\u00a0abandoning itself to the aggression of the moment without ever losing\u00a0a sense of its\u00a0transience.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"49EXKsu-jTs\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sticky Drama - Prologue\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/49EXKsu-jTs?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"td-e4i2BL_Q\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sticky Drama - Music Video\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/td-e4i2BL_Q?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Grimes \u2013 \u2018Flesh without Blood\u2019\/\u2019Life in the Vivid Dream\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Putting \u2018Flesh without Blood\u2019 together with\u00a0\u2018Life in the Vivid Dream\u2019 for the first video from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/grimes-art-angels\/\">Art Angels<\/a><\/em>, released on 6 November, may seem like a curious choice by Grimes: with its\u00a0motorised guitar line and pulsating percussion emphasised by claps, \u2018Flesh without Blood\u2019 can certainly carry itself as the album\u2019s first single, while the unfettered sadness of \u2018Life in the Vivid Dream\u2019 is unique on <em>Art Angels<\/em>, offset when the song\u00a0segues into the more conciliatory closing track \u2018Butterfly\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But aside from showing something of Grimes\u2019s range as a vocalist and producer, these are two pensive songs at heart, and surprisingly direct in their criticisms. \u2018Flesh without Blood\u2019 has also been interpreted as a sort of dialogue between Grimes and her fans, but it is most clearly a condemnation of a faded friendship, while \u2018Life in the Vivid Dream\u2019 is a lament\u00a0for the wider world, admitting\u00a0\u2018I could tell you that people are good in the end \/ But why, why would I?\u2019. In the video,\u00a0as Grimes appears\u00a0with her face\u00a0and white gown covered in blood, alternately clutching a knife and with one thrust into\u00a0her gut, it is impossible to say whether she is the attacker or the withdrawing attacked.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Tv9YoYCKNoE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Grimes - Flesh without Blood\/Life in the Vivid Dream\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tv9YoYCKNoE?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>dvsn \u2013 \u2018The Line\u2019 and \u2018With Me\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Paul Jefferies, the Toronto music producer who operates under the name Nineteen85, is best known for his collaborations with Drake: co-producing \u2018Hold On, We\u2019re Going Home\u2019 before taking the helm for \u2018Too Much\u2019 and more recently \u2018Hotline Bling\u2019. Within\u00a0the past couple of months, making good use of a\u00a0hosting slot on Beats 1\u2019s OVO Sound Radio, Nineteen85 has unveiled a new project, with the release of\u00a0two gorgeous soul songs fronted by an unidentified vocalist called dvsn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Over piano keys and background chatter, dvsn reaches a gospel falsetto in the first 50 seconds of \u2018The Line\u2019. Then the drums kick in, and carry the dying flame of dvsn\u2019s voice, pitched low, as the distant and lovelorn backing for more soulful flourishes. The effect is sensational, and it is one\u00a0Nineteen85 manages to sustain, drawing out dvsn\u2019s voice and retracing the tail end of his utterances\u00a0to provide the atmosphere, as the song moves through a gospel choir and\u00a0a gleaming synth loop. Despite its numerous parts \u2018The Line\u2019 bears an easy grace across its 7-minute length, and the same is true of \u2018With Me\u2019, with its warped\u00a0stride and sultry singing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Line by dvsn\" width=\"696\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F226794285&show_artwork=true&maxheight=1000&maxwidth=696\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"With Me by dvsn\" width=\"696\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F226794789&show_artwork=true&maxheight=1000&maxwidth=696\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Beach Boys \u2013 \u2018Sherry She Needs Me\u2019 and \u2018You\u2019ve Lost That Lovin\u2019 Feelin\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When <em>The Beach Boys Love You<\/em> was released in 1977, it failed to sell, part of the reason for Reprise Records and Warner Bros. rejecting the band\u2019s next two offerings, the shelved\u00a0projects <em>Adult\/Child<\/em> and <em>Merry Christmas from the Beach Boys<\/em>. But even at the time\u00a0<em>Love You<\/em> received its share of critical acclaim, embraced as the sound of Brian Wilson taking a gulp of air. In a curiously positive review, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smileysmile.net\/uncanny\/index.php\/the-beach-boys-love-you-october-1977-hit-parader-selection-by-patti-smith\">Patti Smith wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em> \u2018life is a dream. some of us will move out rock\u2026 some will disintegrate. those dust to dust take their place as part of the golden swirl of the universe. there is a cloud of some such dust circulating like a posthumous halo above the head of this album. brian wilson has spun out and returned\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And <em>Love You<\/em> is regarded by many Beach Boys aficionados today as one the band\u2019s greatest works.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Wilson wrote and recorded much of <em>Love You<\/em> himself, paying particular attention to the lyrics, and playing the musical parts on state of the art synthesizers, especially the Minimoog. But not everything could make the cut, and \u2018Sherry She Needs Me\u2019 and a cover of \u2018You\u2019ve Lost That Lovin\u2019 Feelin\u201d \u2013 the song which was originally a hit for The Righteous Brothers in 1965, with Phil Spector\u2019s Wall of Sound production \u2013 were laid to one side.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Sherry She Needs Me\u2019 was entitled \u2018Sandy\u2019, or \u2018Sandy She Needs Me\u2019, when Wilson began work on it back in 1965, during the recording sessions for <em>Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)<\/em>. In 1976 he added new vocals to the old instrumental, and though\u00a0the song once again went unfulfilled, it finally saw release in 1998 when, with lyric changes by Carole Bayer Sager, it appeared on Wilson\u2019s solo album <em>Imagination<\/em> as \u2018She Says That She Needs Me\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The cover of \u2018You\u2019ve Lost That Lovin\u2019 Feelin\u201d offers an equally compelling picture of Brian Wilson\u2019s voice in late 1976. According to Alan Boyd, who would engineer some of the Beach Boys\u2019 later albums:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u2018I talked to Earle Mankey about it and he remembers the session vividly. He recalls that Brian came in one day and recorded the whole song. He plays everything on it, did all the vocals. Everything was pretty much done in one take. Apparently when he was singing both vocals parts at the end \u2013 the Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield parts \u2013 he really got into that. Earle described his head bouncing back and forth from one side of the microphone to the other. Like a lot of the material from Love You, Brian was working very quickly on his own. It\u2019s a very simple production. Everything is anchored by that tack piano. Brian did this very interesting thing and it goes back to his early days too, for rhythm he\u2019d often use guitars and piano to fulfill the same rhythm function as a high-hat. He\u2019d always have these eighth notes but there\u2019d be these chord clusters. I think he liked the tack piano because it had that sort of percussive click on it and it sort of fulfills the same function as a high-hat except with all these notes so it makes everything sort of swirl. His version of \u2018You\u2019ve Lost that Lovin\u2019 Feelin\u2019 is very dark and it\u2019s very raw. It almost has kind of a punk edge to it.<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;\">\u2018<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ESrosQNurrs\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Beach Boys - Sherry She Needs Me\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ESrosQNurrs?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oeMhUNd439s<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bach\u2019s Brandenburg Concertos \u2018Switched On\u2019, by Wendy Carlos and Carey\u00a0R. Meltz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the inspirations behind Brian Wilson\u2019s use of synthesizers on Love You was Wendy Carlos, who came to prominence in 1968 for Switched-On Bach. This was a groundbreaking and hugely influential rendition\u00a0of Johann Sebastian Bach\u2019s music, performed on the Moog synthesizer, and recorded on a custom-made eight-track.<\/p>\n<p>Switched-On Bach was\u00a0pivotal for the popularity of the Moog, and it played its part in the coming together in the late 1960s of classical music and electronic instrumentation. It became one of the first classical albums to sell half a million copies; stayed inside the Billboard Top 40 for seventeen weeks; and at the 1969 Grammy Awards, won for Best Classical Album, Best Classical Performance \u2013 Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra), and Best Engineered Classical Recording.\u00a0Referring to Carlos\u2019 performance of Bach\u2019s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, Glenn Gould said, \u2018Carlos\u2019s realization of the Fourth Brandenburg Concerto [sic] is, to put it bluntly, the finest performance of any of the Brandenburgs \u2013 live, canned, or intuited \u2013 I\u2019ve ever heard\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Wendy Carlos followed Switched-On Bach\u00a0with The Well-Tempered Synthesizer (1969), Sonic Seasonings (1972), and Switched-On Bach II (1974), before in 1979 she recorded the full Switched-On Brandenburgs. All of these performances are unavailable via the typical sources, YouTube, SoundCloud, and so on. But Carey R. Meltz has happily produced his own \u2018switched-on\u2019 versions of some of Bach\u2019s Brandenburg Concertos, in what he describes as a \u2018humble re-imagining\u2019 of Carlos\u2019s voices and timbres.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zi5-WRgA5GI<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"QpznlxMW2_M\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049 - 1. Allegro (Synthesized)\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QpznlxMW2_M?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Bq6NkJ8Lp-w\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049 - 3. Presto (Synthesized)\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bq6NkJ8Lp-w?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Tc51cnV6YJI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050 - 1. Allegro (Synthesized)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tc51cnV6YJI?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jeremih \u2013 \u2018oui\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ahead of\u00a0<em>Late Nights: The Album<\/em>, which arrived on\u00a04 December \u2013\u00a0Jeremih\u2019s third studio release\u00a0but the spiritual successor to his brilliant 2012 mixtape <em>Late Nights with Jeremih<\/em> \u2013 came \u2018oui\u2019, already the new record\u2019s third single. Upon Jeremih\u2019s seductive singing, \u2018oui\u2019 glimmers and slinks into the amusement park of the night.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"VtcP0PFifpE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jeremih - oui (Official Audio)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VtcP0PFifpE?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Young Thug \u2013 \u2018Raw (Might Just)\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Young Thug proves he can croon with the best on this slow and soulful song from <em>Slime Season 2<\/em>, a blanket for the winter.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zQQegB8pio8<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Majical Cloudz \u2013 \u2018Game Show\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On 18 November, Majical Cloudz uploaded another video to accompany <a href=\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/culturedarms-songs-of-the-month-october-2015\/\">the release of <em>Are You Alone?<\/em> last month<\/a>. This one shows Devon Welsh and Matthew Otto performing \u2018Game Show\u2019, the penultimate track from the album, at a recent show at National Sawdust in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"9990o3UGfQ4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Majical Cloudz - Game Show\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9990o3UGfQ4?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Arca \u2013 \u2018Front Load\u2019 and \u2018Soichiro\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Following the release of <em>Xen<\/em> towards the end of 2014, this has been a breakout year for Arca, climaxing on 20 November with <em>Mutant<\/em>, his second studio album. The encompassing, full-frontal embrace of the work is epitomised by \u2018Front Load\u2019, with its sloping, squelching synths, and\u00a0\u2018Soichiro\u2019, the penultimate track on <em>Mutant<\/em>, a blistering\u00a0composition\u00a0which manages to sustain its early twinkle through frantic percussion, bursts of industrial noise, and sliced vocals.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AXyhCpHPLUI<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"mYEyHb8x6AY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Arca - Soichiro (Official Video)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mYEyHb8x6AY?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Modesto Sanchez & Gabriel Gonzalez Adam \u2013 \u2018Foliada\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is one of my favourite of Alan Lomax\u2019s Spanish recordings. Made in 1952 in the town of Ribadavia, in the autonomous Spanish community of Galicia, the dance features the well-known local bagpipe player Modesto Sanchez, and Gabriel Gonzalez Adam on the tabor, a portable snare drum.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"c66jEn4X5Wo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Foliada - Modesto Sanchez-Gabriel Gonzalez Adam\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c66jEn4X5Wo?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oneohtrix Point Never \u2013 \u2018Sticky Drama\u2019 On 13 November Oneohtrix Point Never released Garden of Delete, his\u00a0seventh studio album and the second to come out on Warp,\u00a0having set the scene over preceding months courtesy of an interview 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