Orbital - Monsters Exist - Possibly out September 2018

Well, I guess it's happening after all. Thought Wonky was great, expecting this to be great as well

https://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/monsters-exist-deluxe/1380840392

here's the tracklisting:

1 Monsters Exist 5:52
2 Hoo Hoo Ha Ha 4:04
3 The Raid 5:00
4 P.H.U.K. 7:25
5 Tiny Foldable Cities 5:45
6 Buried Deep Within 4:27
7 Vision OnE 5:44
8 The End Is Nigh 4:36
9 There Will Come a Time (feat. Prof. Brian Cox) 7:13
10 Kaiju (Bonus Track) 5:25
11 A Long Way from Home (Bonus Track) 1:30
12 Analogue Test Oct 16 (Bonus Track) 3:06
13 Fun with the System (Bonus Track) 4:15
14 Dressing up in Other People's Clothes (Bonus Track) 4:37
15 To Dream Again (Bonus Track) 4:38
16 There Will Come a Time (Bonus Track) 7:13
17 Tiny Foldable Cities (Kareful Remix) [Bonus Track] 3:36

!!!

I don't know why but I'm getting an Altogether vibe from that tracklisting.

no long tracks again, which is disappointing but kind of expected

interesting that "Copenhagen" didn't make the cut. great track but very much in the "classic Orbital" vein. maybe they're going in a different direction

I do wonder what all those bonus tracks are. that's like a half-hour worth of B-sides.

that's a lot of bonus tracks.

They're a capella pub singalongs.

Hopefully this is as good as Wonky!

Essentially a bonus album is tacked on. 33-34 minutes of "bonus".

That's the deluxe version though. 2CD?

Tiny Foldable Cities is pretty good.

okay this is definitely a lot more developed than the live version

another new track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGYZp3QqhqE

this one was also on the new live sets. its...definitely Orbital, alright

ha ha yes, it's like if Weird Al did an Orbital pastiche-not-parody.

Fun

There Will Come a Time (feat. Prof. Brian Cox)]

-_-

man PHUK is such a jam

nobody does it like Orbital

Edit of 'The End Is Nigh' from the new album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrzB8A6h6CA&app=desktop

Pretty accurate description from BTL:

Sounds like one of those annoying tracks that are used for YouTube compilation videos.

took me a bit to figure out this was the actual song and not the commercial that plays beforehand

Enjoying this on first listen.

It may be a bit Orbital-by-numbers in places but it's fun and definitely better than the Blue album.

I felt the Blue album was the most "Orbital by the numbers" album they ever released. A very self conscious, nearly self parodying affair (was intended to be their swan song, right?). This one feels like they use their sound palette much more effectively and the songs are a nice balance between fresh sounding and Orbital sounding. I enjoyed Wonky but it didn't really sound like it was Orbital enough to me. Their sound is so iconic.

yeah Blue was intended to be a swan song and I think the Hartnolls straight up said it was a gift for the fans. so the similarity was definitely intentional. haven't heard it in ages but I still figure "You Lot" is a banger

as for Wonky, "Where Is It Going?" and "Stringy Acid" definitely had their classic sound. wasn't the latter actually a Brown-era track, or did someone just make that up?

haven't received the new one yet but early reviews sound encouraging. how do the bonus tracks fit into the whole thing?

on first listen it sounds nice enough, but that's just it, it's nice but not grand in the way that the brown album and in sides were. it's fun, but just feels.. small? compared to them. (as a side note i really like "you lot" but it's like they were trying to go for the emotional impact of adnan / girl with the sun but in a calculated way that shows through)

another thing that stood out immediately - sound design was always one of the things i loved about orbital, that lush otherworldly sound. here it's kinda cold/thin and boringly "modern".

I've listened to this twice and it's super forgettable and sounds completely phoned in. I don't think I can bring myself to listen to it again.

"Hoo Hoo Ha Ha" is fun and just what I needed yesterday as a break from my Low marathon.

I've made it as far as VisionOnE and this is actively bad. I'm not even convinced it's better than The Altogether.

"Hoo Hoo Ha Ha" is really cracking me up right now

First listen to the album and to Hoo Hoo Ha Ha, what is this £10 casio keyboard trumpet preset bobbins?

this brian cox track is making a good case for destroying the planet.

did laugh at "how does that make you feel?"

Brian Cox's speaking voice is so bad.

wow, imagine thinking putting that cunt's voice on an album is a good idea!

ok my final verdict on this is that the main album is a bit hit and miss - a lot of times it sounds like you're listening to parts of epics that don't actually develop - but if they'd found a way to flesh out and incorporate some of the bonus tracks like "Kaiju", "Fun With the System", and "Copenhagen", it would be really damn good. this was also the case with The Altogether though I believe most of the bonus tracks were older B-sides...I'm not sure what the excuse is here. maybe cuz they're more upbeat and melodic, I dunno. think I'll just sequence my own version of this album and make it really good.

Yeah, this is nowhere near as good as Wonky in terms of composition and production.

Saw them the other day. It was fine.