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Oneohtrix Point Never - Good Time Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Review by Ellen Peirson-Hagger

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Oneohtrix Point Never returns with his new album ​Good Time Original Motion Picture Soundtrack​ on Warp Records. Rapturously received by Cannes’ film critics, ​Good Time​ is directed by Josh and Benny Safdie and stars Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The hypnotic crime thriller follows Pattinson’s Connie in a twisted odyssey through the New York underworld in a desperate attempt to get his brother out of jail. Oneohtrix Point Never received the prestigious Cannes Soundtrack Award at this year’s 70th anniversary edition of the festival for his visceral original score for ​Good Time​. The artist was in competition with the likes of Jonny Greenwood, Jed Kurzel and Ibrahim Maalouf and took home the celebrated prize.

An original song by Oneohtrix Point Never composed for the closing theme of the film, The Pure and the Damned features a guest vocal and lyrics written by Iggy Pop. ​Iggy’s voice is rich with uncomparable weight and wisdom on this stunning closer. Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never and the Safdie brothers became close collaborators through a shared love of cult genre movies and music, and their level of collaboration here has a rare depth of symbiosis of picture and score.With the soundtrack to ​Good Time, ​Oneohtrix Point Never has created a genuine listening experience rivalling the very best of his landmark studio albums. ​It also holds some of his most striking and complete individual moments; in addition to The Pure and the Damned Leaving The Park takes the classic arpeggio-laced crime scores of the 1970s and lends it the unique ​Oneohtrix Point Never stranger-beauty.description from www.roughrade,com