Oneohtrix Point Never AGE OF (2018)

I'm increasingly mostly playing music when I can have it on in the house, usually on the Sonos system which has one speaker in every room.  I really like moving through the music.  (Headphones it's mostly audiobooks or podcasts.) I think it might have something to do with modern digital compression standards, but it just feels a little cramped and claustrophobic even on a set of decent Bose.  AGE OF is an example of an album that I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to on headphones, but it is cool; has some of the propulsion of GOOD TIME with some nocturnal groove to it, but I'm not sure how deep it is as an album.  I think we (as shitty music nerds) have a vacuum where we would like to have some heteropatriarch genius dudes we can look up to, as we have for decades, and there's just a dearth--OR there's dearth within those who have been appointed.  Father John Misty, et al.  OPN is an old head, he's better than that for sure, innovating vaporware and moving on, but at the end of the day he's a soundsmith, a collagist, and I think if he wanted to make music that truly stands the test of time, he'd produce for Grimes or something.  Otherwise its like a MR. ROBOT Bon Iver album, which yeah, but diminished delights have diminished ends.

I'd suggest Still Stuff That Doesn't Happen as the best track on its own and as a summation of the album as a whole.