Exactly one year ago the Pope joined Twitter; two years before him it was the Dalai Lama. It’s a sign of the times, particularly of how completely un-detachable from technology we are. So people tweet @pontifex, and if you flip on TV you can find scientists discussing bizarre Rapture-esque scenarios like “the singularity” with a preacher’s zeal. It gives the idea of faith in technology a completely different context — a context that has allowed Daniel Lopatin to make one of the most spiritual pieces of art released this year. Oneohtrix Point Never examines this dichotomy by smashing and blending together the mangled remnants of everything from church hymns to infomercial Muzak. Opener “Boring Angel” lays it all out, pairing a church organ with a synth arpeggiator, and finds beauty in each before culminating in an overwhelming organ and choir crescendo. It’s a unique spirituality that Lopatin first tapped into on Eccojams Vol. 1, and drafted on Replica, but on R + 7 he’s made something transcendent. These 10 songs are beautiful, grotesque, wondrous, and never more appropriate-sounding than when he performed them at Our Lady Of Lebanon. As puzzling as the impossible equation in its title, R + 7 is Oneohtrix Point Never’s masterpiece. –Miles [LISTEN]