I feel Middle of Nowhere was their last truly "great" album, but oddly enough the Don't Stop Me / The Gun Is Good single from 2010 is as good as anything they released in the early/mid 90's imho and it's crazy to me these two tracks dropped out of nowhere just sounding truly classic and nothing else they've dropped this century (weird to type that) comes close for me.
― octobeard, Friday, 5 August 2022 03:18 (one year ago) link
Maybe it's my deep deference to Zardoz, but The Gun Is Good would be in my top 10 of Orbital tracks... seriously.
― octobeard, Friday, 5 August 2022 03:22 (one year ago) link
Okay no - it's definitely the well placed Time Bandits sample too. Good lord that track slaps so much
― octobeard, Friday, 5 August 2022 03:30 (one year ago) link
New yesterday: a John Tejada mix of Orbital rarities on their youtube channel
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Friday, 5 August 2022 21:41 (one year ago) link
This rarities mix of their old stuff is great.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 5 August 2022 22:55 (one year ago) link
xps to nashwan:https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/orbital-tell-sde-of-archival-reissue-plans/
― groovypanda, Saturday, 6 August 2022 14:08 (one year ago) link
ty
― nashwan, Saturday, 6 August 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
new one coming.
is ANYONE excited? Out of my favorite 90s album-oriented electronic acts, Orbital has fallen off hardest.
― death generator (lukas), Thursday, 20 October 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
I don't think they fell off that hard! Ok their last album wasn't too great but my personal theory there is they switched directions midstream and rushed things. Anyway looking at the tracklisting it appears to be kind of a Chemical Bros. type affair with guests on every track. dunno if that'll be a good thing or a bad thing but I've always liked the way they've used vocalists in the past. it doesn't look like anything from the BBC session above made it. I hope that stuff comes out in some form.
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 October 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
i'm into it but they've been releasing a slow trickle of new stuff for awhile now
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 October 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
monsters is the only orbital album i can’t bring myself to listen to, i hope it won’t be the case with the new onebut last time they had a bunch of guests we got Altogether, so..
first single is out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FM7XeaSO0M
― scanner darkly, Thursday, 20 October 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
Sounds like a Sleaford Mods track, with a dance beat.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 20 October 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
I loved, and still love, Tiny Foldable Cities but don't remember the rest of that album that much
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 20 October 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
I'm liking Dirty Rat. Their new stuff from the 30 Something comp was all ardkore and acid nostalgic and this feels like a development from that. It's better than "Ibiza" as well.
Incongruent guest appearances? I wasn't thinking Chemical Brothers, I was thinking the hodgesplodgey Altogether and some of their collabs from that wider era.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 20 October 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
imo the problem with Altogether wasn't the collabs it was mostly the other tracks
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 October 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
cough illuminate coughbut yeah, other tracks also
― scanner darkly, Thursday, 20 October 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
Hodgesplodgey to extend beyond the collab(s) and into their Doctor Who tribute, their Ian Dury tribute and...
...omg it fits the informal album thread a bit!
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 20 October 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
I like Illuminate! you know how Talking Heads wrote The Overload based on how they imagined Joy Division to sound like just based on the reviews? Illuminate sounds like that for Ed Sheeran. I think the dinky melody and the slurred vocals are funny. it has some killer remixes too.
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 October 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
i like the track, i just wish somebody else did the vocalthe vocalizations at the end make me cringe/laugh each time i listen to it
― scanner darkly, Thursday, 20 October 2022 19:49 (one year ago) link
fiiiiree wooughhks in the bluuuugh
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 October 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
“Illuminate” is great and I also like Monsters Exist
― castanuts (DJP), Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
is ANYONE excited?looooved the big chunk of new tracks in the BBC mix
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:15 (one year ago) link
I feel so strongly, I had to post it twice
― castanuts (DJP), Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:15 (one year ago) link
I like the more melodic stuff on Monsters Exist - Tiny Foldable Cities, PHUK, Vision OnE, even Hoo Hoo Ha Ha. plus a bunch of the bonus tracks. the rest sounds like they were trying to make something darker and more soundtracky but didn't really have the time to finish it. I really think they changed directions midstream.
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
I'm enjoying this BBC mix. This lowkey trolling worked out well for me.
― death generator (lukas), Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
i wonder if those BBC mix tracks will be on the bonus CD, haven't seen the tracklist for it
― scanner darkly, Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
the three new Hartnoll-written tracks from the mix are on it*, it's just the two you'd expect not to make it that were exclusive (bummer obv tho, they should be a double-A):
Ringa Ringa (The Old Pandemic Folk Song) (feat. The Mediaeval Baebes) Day One (feat. Dina Ipavic Are You Alive? (feat. Penelope Isles)* You Are The Frequency (feat. The Little Pest)* The New Abnormal Home (feat. Anna B Savage)* Dirty Rat – With Sleaford Mods Requiem For The Pre Apocalypse What A Surprise (feat. The Little Pest) Moon Princess (feat. Coppe)
Bonus tracks
The Crane (feat. Dina Ipavic) Year Of The Bat Lost In Time
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Friday, 21 October 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
yeah the Numbers remix and Spicy were both awesome. probably some licenscing issues with the latter though.
― frogbs, Friday, 21 October 2022 19:44 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNxGpMySziQ
definitely sounds like classic Orbital
― frogbs, Thursday, 8 December 2022 23:05 (one year ago) link
Heard a snippet of this today, banged my head like a mofo
― castanuts (DJP), Friday, 9 December 2022 01:39 (one year ago) link
sounds so much like classic orbital i thought it was a remix!
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 9 December 2022 03:19 (one year ago) link
sounds great on first listenand loving dirty rat way more than i thought i would
there is certain quality in last tracks like they finally stopped caring and it translates into great music
― scanner darkly, Friday, 9 December 2022 04:40 (one year ago) link
I’ve probably listened to parts of the BBC mix as much as any other piece of music this yearEven if the rest of the album, after that new material and the two singles, sucks, it’ll still be one of their best four
― more crankable (sic), Friday, 9 December 2022 10:36 (one year ago) link
Ringa Ringa's excellent. Plays like a composite of great Brown and Snivilisation ideas.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 9 December 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link
promo just forwarded, digging in
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 December 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
okay "New Abnormal" is a solid fucking banger
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 December 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
so uh sounds like this'll be better than the last one
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
It's good IMO! "Requiem for the Pre Apocalypse" is also awesome.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 December 2022 19:56 (one year ago) link
great to hear, was so disappointed with monsters
ringa ringa has been stuck in my head for days, i want a 20 min version
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 17 December 2022 02:15 (one year ago) link
the whole album borrows liberally from their earlier sound in a nearly plagiaristic way but there's enough new pattern and approach going on to keep it lively. reminds me quite a bit of wonky after a few listens, maybe stronger.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 17 December 2022 02:54 (one year ago) link
another new tune. most exciting bit is around 4:45 in realizing "ok the tune is winding down but there's still a few minutes left?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WPxOe9mZ6I
but wait!! the track's beat was actually recycled from the Hartnoll and Young album from 2021 that nobody heard! you see!??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaPiqHF9nKI
― frogbs, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 15:11 (one year ago) link
That nursery rhyme is not about the plague. Not one Medieval Baebe knew that?
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
I feel safe in saying this is going to be a top 2023 record for me with the early singles, "New Abnormal," "Day One" and the Anna B Savage feature being particular high points.
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 18:14 (one year ago) link
I guess people already have it?
― StanM, Thursday, 16 February 2023 16:36 (one year ago) link
Officially released tomorrow isn't it?
― groovypanda, Thursday, 16 February 2023 16:44 (one year ago) link
yeah, but maybe preorder got there soon for some
― StanM, Thursday, 16 February 2023 16:54 (one year ago) link
("soon" -> early) my english broke
― StanM, Thursday, 16 February 2023 16:55 (one year ago) link
Yeah gonna wait till my local shop gets it but the people on the Orbital Facebook group seem to really like it and they’ve been kind of a tough crowd to please
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 February 2023 17:03 (one year ago) link
pretty excited to hear what you guys think of it. It's great!
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 February 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link