PRE ORDER 28\/04\/23 On \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPrism\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, released 28th April via Cooking Vinyl, The Orb\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pulsating discography grows ever more huge, with their 18th album, and 3rd helmed by core duo Alex Paterson and Michael Rendall. Despite the connotations of its title, here they continue to rollick freely without inhibition across ambient, house and dub, but also tangent into poetry, pop, full-blown drum \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 bass and actual reggae. To celebrate the official album announcement, The Orb are pleased to share the video for their killer new single \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcLiving In Recycled Times\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, released 25th January, \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a blistering, ten minutes plus, drum & bass floorfiller. The LP features electronic musicians David Harrow (whose CV includes Anne Clarke, Psychic TV, Razormaid, Adrian Sherwood and Andy Weatherall) and Gaudi (whose credits include Max Romeo, Capleton, Johnny Clarke and Desmond Dekker). Other guests include Orb regular Youth, violinist Violeta Vicci, Kompakt records alumnus Leonardo Fresco, Metamono man Jono Podmore, Guitarist and Alex\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s old schoolchum David Lofts, plus vocalists Eric Von Skywalker, Andy Cain and Rachel D\u00e2\u20ac\u2122arcy. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPrism\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 begins with the epic winding journey of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcH.O.M.E\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, which features a poem by Paterson, and traverses through dark ambient into star-surfing Fingers-style house, before \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWhy Can You Be In Two Places At Once\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 kicks into a funked-up, afrobeaty chug. With Paterson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decades-long love for Jamaican music and output oft drenched in the dubwise, it should come as little surprise that The Orb have now gone full reggae, on the ebullient nostalgia tale of Von Skywalker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s youthful romance, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcA Ghetto Love Story\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. The album then disappears down a wormhole of rubadub head-music called \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPicking Tea & Chasing Butterfiles\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, which sounds like Colourbox meets Popul Vuh in Shanghai, and also echoes back to Weatherall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ultrabass II remix of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPerpetual Dawn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. Flipping the script entirely, by sprinkling a large bag of disco dust, is the slinky boogie wonderland of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTiger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (the name and nickname of Paterson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s son and late brother respectively), which juxtaposes but somehow coheres with the melodica-tinged thunderous bass music of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDragon Of Oceans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Sirius B gazing wordplay. The expertly-executed, floaty 90s trance dance of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe Beginning Of The End\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 works very nicely within its own familiar parameters; which contrasts sharply with \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcLiving In Recycled Times\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, which ignites over ten plus minutes into fully-fledged, rave-ready D&B fire, which although out of their comfort zone still sounds very Orb. Music for the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPrism\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of your mind, the album ends with its title track \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a big ambient epic in done in fine style \u00e2\u20ac\u201c as awe inspiring as the cold, infinite expanse from whence it came.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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