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Garden of Delete is the seventh studio album by American electronic musician Oneohtrix Point Never, released on November 13, 2015 by Warp Records. The album was preceded by an enigmatic Internet-based promotional campaign and draws on sources such as grunge music, top 40 radio and themes of adolescence and mutation. It received generally positive reviews from critics, and was included on year-end lists by several publications, including Fact, PopMatters, and The Quietus.

Following the release of his 2013 album R Plus Seven and work on several side projects, Lopatin was unexpectedly invited to support the rock bands Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden on their 2014 joint amphitheater tour as a replacement for Death Grips. With the permission of Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, Lopatin performed 30-minute opening sets of self-described "cyberdrone" to often vexed arena rock crowds. The tour reunited him with the misanthropic 1990s grunge music of his teenage years and prompted him to reengage with his memories of adolescence and puberty, which he described as "pretty traumatic."

Upon completing the tour and returning to Brooklyn, Lopatin rented a small, windowless basement studio and began recording new material. Drawing on his experiences touring, he noted that "a lot of my thoughts on the record were about dealing with puberty and how your pubescent body is essentially the staging area for all this mutation." Other inspirations included the video hosting service Vevo, satellite radio stations such as Ozzy's Boneyard and Lithium, and the writing of French philosopher Julia Kristeva (in particular, her influential 1980 essay Powers of Horror). About the latter, Lopatin explained,

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