It pains me to say it but they haven?t been relevant or interesting for decades. 1999?s Middle of Nowhere was the last great album. I remember the green album coming out and having a real album from an electronic artist. The Brown album, Snivilisation and In Sides were and always will be absolute favourites of the genre. I am as fanatical of those albums now as I was then. But sadly, as other peers like Underworld, Future Sound if London, Chemical Brothers all moved with the times and released (to varying degrees) good, solid or excellent albums - Orbital lost their way and sadly never found their way back again. An album this far in a musician?s career chock full of colabs just smacks of them being tired and empty. I know that?s likely an unfair and overly harsh take. But the music here is not that good, the only good bits are just regurgitating old sounds. There is nothing here to come back for. I don?t mind being so hard on the boys because they have already provided me with 6 classic albums.
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