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.
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.
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.
Oct-27-2011 21:39
SYSTEM-J
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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.
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.
Oct-27-2011 23:43
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I think the last time I listened to Orbital was 1995
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Oct-28-2011 00:06
freakster
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omg
Oct-28-2011 00:11
freakster
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I mean Im so seriously excited about this. best edm ever.
Oct-28-2011 00:13
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Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
I think the last time I listened to Orbital was 1995
