The Orb issued more studio albums during the 2010s than they did the previous decade and get an early start on the 2020s with a characteristically sprawling double-LP. In part, it's a "retroactive protest" against the royal family's calamitous support of the East India Company. It's also a bleak reflection of the present, concluding with a reading of Jello Biafra's sardonic Reagan-era "Message from Our Sponsor" (coincidentally sampled in the introduction of Ice-T's The Iceberg, released the same year as the first Orb EP, ...
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The Orb issued more studio albums during the 2010s than they did the previous decade and get an early start on the 2020s with a characteristically sprawling double-LP. In part, it's a "retroactive protest" against the royal family's calamitous support of the East India Company. It's also a bleak reflection of the present, concluding with a reading of Jello Biafra's sardonic Reagan-era "Message from Our Sponsor" (coincidentally sampled in the introduction of Ice-T's The Iceberg, released the same year as the first Orb EP, and updated by Biafra earlier in the same month this album arrived). Michael Rendall, who had been part of the Orb as a touring musician and studio engineer, slides into place as Alex Paterson's primary collaborator, and the result is a fluid continuation of 2018's appropriately titled No Sounds Are Out of Bounds. Wading through some nondescript ambient wash, dub riddims, and rolling drum'n'bass pays off with the charging "Hawk Kings" (a nod to Orb fan Stephen Hawking, and destined for a symphonic adaptation), the loping funk downer "Daze" (a full-blown tune featuring vocals from longtime associate Andy Caine), and the levitating "Afros, Afghans and Angels." The tracks are titled like remixes with duly descriptive Orb-ian phrases, but they're all making their first appearance here. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi
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