Listening to the Orb's Cydonia - here the obvious hit would have to
be "Once More" with soothing female vocals. The rest is much as
one might expect - spliffed out dubs (never a totally bad thing) and
some chill moments that are so laid back as to be almost horizontal.
Some of this verges close to instant noodle status.
Mile Long Lump Of Lard should get a prize of sorts for its title,
although I can't say whether that's necessarily a good thing!
It looks like the Orb has dwindled down to being essentially Alex
Patterson's one man band.
I'm not a huge fan of seemingly random spoken word snippets, odd
squawks and squibbles shoved into music tracks, which have been
employed here in various places. Not one I'll be playing over and
over, save for one or two tracks - but I can foresee a happy future
at trance-hippies' side rooms. (Meeeeooouw!)
As for Radiohead's Amnesiac:
No huge surprises here : if you can stomach Thom Yorke's
idiosyncratic voice for more than two tracks in a row, you're in for
some quality musical offerings. I'm very happy to see that they put
my favourite track off Kid A (Morning Bell) in a reworked version on
this album - high point for sure. No doubt the global music press
will heap the expected praise on this release.
Very short first-listen-off-the-cuff comments, these.
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