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The Emotionally Haunted Electronic Music of Oneohtrix Point Never

The New Yorker

The video for "A Barely Lit Path," the first single from "Again," Daniel Lopatin's tenth album as Oneohtrix Point Never, takes place on a dark road in a shadowy forest. Two CPR dummies wearing turquoise jumpsuits are strapped into a self-driving car. On the floor, there's an artificial-intelligence manual, a book about understanding computers, and a copy of "Erewhon," the 1872 satirical novel that imagines a future in which machines achieve consciousness. The dummies play chess; they nap. Their rubbery fingers reach across the seat for each other. At some point, the road gets rough and the dummies start flopping around. A Stop button is affixed to the gearshift, but it's just out of reach. One of the dummies starts to cry.