Tranquilizer isn’t the sound of sedation but resurfacing. Daniel Lopatin isn’t condemning our need for escape, but exploring what happens after. The record maps a movement from weightless calm into something more grounded, the necessary cycle of withdrawal and return that keeps us sane in a world both overwhelming and mundane. We plummet from the watery bliss of “Lifeworld” into the mournful melancholy of “Cherry Blue” and spastic grooves of “Rodl Glide.” As always with OPN, the real collides with the unreal. Listen closely and you will hear the scrape of fingers on a fretboard, a stone sliding across a dungeon floor, the squeak of a door opening. His music has never been an abstract color field; it has weight, edges, shadows. Tranquilizer feels like falling out of a dream you can still touch.
A1. For Residue
A2. Bumpy
A3. Lifeworld
A4. 04. 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
- 1. For Residue
- 2. Bumpy
- 3. Lifeworld
- 4. Measuring Ruins
- 5. Modern Lust
- 6. Fear of Symmetry
- 7. Vestigel
- 8. Cherry Blue
- 9. Bell Scanner
- 10. D.I.S.
- 11. Tranquilizer
- 12. Storm Show
- 13. Petro
- 14. Rodl Glide
- 15. Waterfalls
