Tranquilizer isn’t the sound of sedation but resurfacing. Lopatin isn’t condemning our need for escape but, rather, exploring what happens after. The record maps a movement from weightless calm into something more grounded — not a hero’s journey, but 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 twisted 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 colour field; it has weight, edges, shadows. If R Plus Seven was all crystalline arpeggiators and Garden of Delete was a feverish upchuck of gurgling synths, Tranquilizer feels like falling out of a dream you can still touch.

Vinyl Tracklist

A1. For Residue

A2. Bumpy

A3. Lifeworld

A4. 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