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Orbital - New Album (2012)

I think the news has been around for a while, but I've only just come across it myself.

Orbital are bringing out a new album circa April 2012!

Being a big Orbital fan, I'm naturally quite excited, but to top off the good news, they have one of the new tracks on their Soundcloud, which is also available as a free download.

I can't stop listening to it....

Never by ORBITAL

Turn it up

prefer the sounds at the end of this vid - "wonky"

Please god let them start touring again!

Right now, they only have a UK tour lined up, for next year.

Although given the album launch, they're surely going to include a wider tour

Re: Orbital - New Album (2012)

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Originally posted by Acton I think the news has been around for a while, but I've only just come across it myself. Orbital are bringing out a new album circa April 2012! Being a big Orbital fan, I'm naturally quite excited, but to top off the good news, they have one of the new tracks on their Soundcloud, which is also available as a free download. I can't stop listening to it.... Never by ORBITAL Turn it up

Thanks, love the new track

This Orbital thing was disappointment just waiting to happen. While they didn't leave the game while on top, I always saw it as a respectable move considering the last album did a much better job of wrapping up their career than a couple before. Nevertheless, the possibility of reunion always existed in the back of many people's mind, and the biggest fear of all was a mediocre comeback.

And this track is a mediocre comeback in its full glory. It doesn't really sound as much as a comeback as something from the past they dug up and decided to release. That alone is of course not a bad thing, but combine it with cheesy shiny big room synths that everyone and their mother were doing last 15 years and nothing but bland and uninspired noisy bass noises and you'll get something exciting just the first couple of times you hear it, completely unsubstantial thereafter.

This is how comeback in the similar style of music should sound. If you want to release music in 2011 that'll sound distinctive you have to work on your sound design, and Orbital obviously didn't take that advice.

Yeah, I have to (mostly) echo those sentiments. I haven't liked any of the tracks they've put out since they reformed in 2009, and honestly they'd been in decline for years prior to splitting up. The Blue Album was, as slijva says, a nicely nostalgic and self-referential ending point to their discography, but it was deliberately a series of rehashes and thus offered nothing new creatively. The Altogether was terrible, and while I seem to be in the minority in loving The Middle Of Nowhere, by all accounts they suffered massively with writer's block when making it. In the last five years of their career you can hear them steadily running out of ideas.

I massively enjoyed seeing them live in 2009 and I'll probably see them again next year, but I think their new productions are just diluting the Orbital name.

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Originally posted by mahalliner Please god let them start touring again!

+1 seen them not to long ago, fucking one of the best act's i've seen live.

I think the last time I listened to Orbital was 1995

omg

I mean Im so seriously excited about this. best edm ever.

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Originally posted by ChemEnhanced I think the last time I listened to Orbital was 1995

Good for you.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Good for you.

I know

Do you only listen to avant garde drone minimalism now?

Pfft, drone. I only listen to bursts of noise with frequencies and timing determined by a random number generator.

I think Orbital are often unfairly denigrated as an entry-level '90s "techno" act just because they appeared on a lot of soundtracks and people discovered them quite early. I see a lot of people dismiss Orbital in this way, and yet the music they've moved onto is usually far less interesting or special than the Hartnoll brothers at their peak.

I haven't really listened to them much lately either but the same could be said of Chemical Brothers or Underworld. That being said, they're still some of the artists that got me interested in EDM in the first place and even if I haven't listened to them in a while I'd still jump at the opportunity to see them live.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Yeah, I have to (mostly) echo those sentiments. I haven't liked any of the tracks they've put out since they reformed in 2009, and honestly they'd been in decline for years prior to splitting up. The Blue Album was, as slijva says, a nicely nostalgic and self-referential ending point to their discography, but it was deliberately a series of rehashes and thus offered nothing new creatively. The Altogether was terrible, and while I seem to be in the minority in loving The Middle Of Nowhere, by all accounts they suffered massively with writer's block when making it. In the last five years of their career you can hear them steadily running out of ideas. I massively enjoyed seeing them live in 2009 and I'll probably see them again next year, but I think their new productions are just diluting the Orbital name.

I somewhat agree with you. 'Never' is a boring track. Personally, Orbital is still one of my all-time favourite music productions, despite the monotone garbage they have been putting up beginning with the Blue Album (I personally enjoyed everything up until Altogether - that album was OK).

This new track lacks that sophistication, deepness and groove that old Orbital had in the 1990s. And it was backed by strong CD and record sales.

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Originally posted by Vector A Pfft, drone. I only listen to bursts of noise with frequencies and timing determined by a random number generator.

hey, don't make fun.




the noise selection in the OP's sample is lacking nicety.

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