

Daniel Lopatin’s work as Oneohtrix Point Never is some of the most approachable experimental music of the 2000s and 2010s: Just listen to albums like Replica or Garden of Delete, which warp the tropes of pop—repetition, concision, emotion—into new, mutant shapes. But in a way, it’s his work outside OPN for artists like The Weeknd, Charli XCX, Caroline Polachek and Moses Sumney that feels most salient, not because it outpaces his own work, but because it realizes an ideal you sense he’s been chasing all along: Music that pushes you but never leaves you behind.