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| quote: | 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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