Point (Cornelius album)

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Point
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Studio album by
Cornelius
ReleasedOctober 24, 2001 (2001-10-24)
Genre Shibuya-kei
Length45:27
Label Trattoria
Producer Keigo Oyamada
Cornelius chronology
Fantasma
(1997)		Point
(2001)		 Sensuous
(2006)
Singles from Point
  1. "Point of View Point"
    Released: September 5, 2001 [1]
  2. "Drop"
    Released: October 3, 2001 [2]

Point is the fourth studio album by Japanese musician Cornelius. [3] It was released in Japan on October 24, 2001, by Trattoria Records, [4] and in the United States on January 22, 2002, by Matador Records. [5] Point peaked at number four on the Oricon Albums Chart. [6] The album was reissued on CD by Warner Music Japan in 2019 with a second disc containing the Five Point One music video collection. [7]

Contents

Composition

Drowned in Sound 's Samuel Rosean described Point as a Shibuya-kei album, albeit "in only the most abstract and contextual manner", noting that its "spacey guitar and synth-heavy production" was more comparable to that of works by artists such as Stereolab and the Notwist. [8]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 82/100 [9]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Alternative Press 8/10 [11]
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [12]
Entertainment Weekly A [13]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [14]
Muzik 4/5 [15]
NME 8/10 [16]
Pitchfork 7.8/10 [17]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [18]
Spin 7/10 [19]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Point received an average score of 82 based on 24 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [9] Ty Burr of Entertainment Weekly described Point as "11 irresistible sound collages that feature driving beats, amiable guitar acoustics, and a quadraphonic sense of aural play that encourages rampant headphone abuse." [13] LA Weekly 's Dan Epstein found it to be a "consistently whimsical and inventive" record, [20] while The A.V. Club 's Noel Murray called it "a magnificent piece of pop architecture." [21]

AllMusic editor Heather Phares found that while Point eschews the "stylistic about-faces" of its predecessor Fantasma , "the restraint and cohesion [Cornelius] brings to the album make its louder and crazier moments ... that much more distinctive." [10] Blender 's Alex Pappademas deemed it an improvement over Fantasma, with less "stylistic range" but a more refined pop sensibility. [12] Fiona Sturges of The Independent found that Cornelius had "honed his cut-and-paste sensibilities into something more coherent and utterly beautiful." [22] Nick Southall of Stylus Magazine said, "More rounded and less determinedly schizo than Fantasma, Point is a great album of delicious odd-pop made by a whimsically modest genius." [23] Guardian critic Garry Mulholland was more critical, panning the music as "noises in search of a song, a groove or, indeed, a point." [14]

Music videos

For the album's tour, Cornelius and his band created music videos for each song, which played behind them. In The Daily Telegraph , Richard Wolfson said of the overall effect: "A Cornelius show is a blur of precision-perfect stops and starts, visual gags, unusual camera angles and sudden visceral leaps into new musical and visual styles." [24] On July 23, 2003, the Felicity and Polystar labels released a DVD titled Five Point One containing all the songs' music videos. [25]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Keigo Oyamada, except where noted.

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Bug (Electric Last Minute)"  0:38
2."Point of View Point"  3:54
3."Smoke"  5:48
4."Drop"  4:53
5."Another View Point"  5:35
6."Tone Twilight Zone"  3:39
7."Bird Watching at Inner Forest"  4:22
8."I Hate Hate"  1:43
9."Brazil"
Barroso3:27
10."Fly"  5:40
11."Nowhere"  5:48
Total length:45:27

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. [26]

Charts

Chart (2001–2002)Peak
position
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [6] 4
UK Albums (OCC) [27] 124
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [28] 18
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [29] 47
US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard) [30] 17

References

  1. ↑ "Point Of View Point | CORNELIUS" (in Japanese). Oricon . Retrieved December 11, 2020.
  2. ↑ "DROP | CORNELIUS" (in Japanese). Oricon . Retrieved December 11, 2020.
  3. ↑ McClure, Steve (February 27, 2002). "Signs of the times". The Japan Times . Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  4. ↑ "point | CORNELIUS" (in Japanese). Oricon . Retrieved February 28, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Cornelius – Point – This Day In Matador History". Matador Records . Retrieved December 11, 2020.
  6. 1 2 "CORNELIUSのアルバム売り上げランキング" (in Japanese). Oricon. Archived from the original on March 4, 2014. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Cornelius / コーネリアス「Point」" (in Japanese). Warner Music Japan . Retrieved February 1, 2020.
  8. ↑ Rosean, Samuel (December 29, 2018). "A Beginner's Guide: Shibuya Kei". Drowned in Sound . Archived from the original on June 18, 2021. Retrieved August 4, 2019.
  9. 1 2 "Point by Cornelius Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic . Retrieved February 27, 2021.
  10. 1 2 Phares, Heather. "Point – Cornelius". AllMusic . Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  11. ↑ "Cornelius: Point". Alternative Press . No. 163. February 2002. p. 68.
  12. 1 2 Pappademas, Alex (February–March 2002). "Cornelius: Point". Blender . Vol. 1, no. 5. p. 111. Archived from the original on August 18, 2004. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  13. 1 2 Burr, Ty (February 15, 2002). "Point". Entertainment Weekly . No. 639. pp. 68–69. Archived from the original on August 8, 2022. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
  14. 1 2 Mulholland, Garry (February 22, 2002). "Cornelius: Point (Matador)". The Guardian . Retrieved June 11, 2019.
  15. ↑ Bell, Duncan (January 2002). "Cornelius: Point". Muzik . No. 80. p. 60.
  16. ↑ Johns, Darren (January 26, 2002). "Cornelius: Point". NME . p. 36. Archived from the original on June 12, 2002. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  17. ↑ Abebe, Nitsuh (January 31, 2002). "Cornelius: Point". Pitchfork . Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  18. ↑ Bulley, Jenny (March 2002). "Cornelius: Point". Q . No. 188. p. 117.
  19. ↑ Winter, Jessica (February 2002). "Cornelius: Point". Spin . Vol. 18, no. 2. p. 110. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  20. ↑ Epstein, Dan (March 13, 2002). "Cool Schmool". LA Weekly . Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  21. ↑ Murray, Noel (March 29, 2002). "Cornelius: Point". The A.V. Club . Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  22. ↑ Sturges, Fiona (February 15, 2002). "Cornelius: Sing something simian". The Independent . Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  23. ↑ Southall, Nick. "Cornelius – Point". Stylus Magazine . Archived from the original on July 10, 2003. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  24. ↑ Wolfson, Richard (February 5, 2004). "Visions of the future". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved February 1, 2020.
  25. ↑ "Five Point One | CORNELIUS" (in Japanese). Oricon . Retrieved December 11, 2020.
  26. ↑ Point (liner notes). Cornelius. Trattoria Records. 2001. Menu.241.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  27. ↑ "Chart Log UK: Chris C. – CZR". Zobbel.de. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
  28. ↑ "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
  29. ↑ "Cornelius Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  30. ↑ "Cornelius Chart History (Top Dance/Electronic Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
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