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Pacific time zone solidarity club We're stuck with this damn year the longest. Lol

Yet they chose a track from 1994? lol Still pretty cool

Beans vs potatoes

Interesting list, tons to check out here. It seems he might have made the list a little early tho - he says in the SIGN review: "However, according to some things they have said on online, this looks like it’s the first of two new albums they have completed in recent months. Keep yer eyes peeled!"

What happened to the days when individual trax from the newest album got whole threads dedicated to them? Discussion of SIGN and PLUS seems to have already dried up around here, yet the discovery is ongoing, at least for me. th red a became an unlikely favourite. It's pretty minimalistic, with only two "instruments" really active. But the amount of fine detail and variation is amazing. Sometimes like blasts of electricity, sometimes like cellos, these chords whoosh in like a gust of wind and then sizzle away, and then it's anchored by that gurgling bass/hissing thing. The sound design on this is just so satisfying.

Right? Truly programmed with the mind of an actual drummer. Some of those riffs are just so tasty. This is the kind of thing that really set him apart from the rest. ========== Unrelated: Say what you will about Thom Yorke's electronic productions, but this came on the other day and reminded me how I always loved that aggressive hi hat in this tune, it really characterizes the whole rhythm. And it's a killer tune in general.

In Sides is their masterpiece. Those pitch bends/vibratos on The Girl with the Sun in Her Head are In my early teens I had Orbital 1 first, and then Middle of Nowhere which was the newest at the time, then Snivilisation, and then finally picked up In Sides after that. I'd been familiar with The Box (and The Saint) already, so I knew that In Sides was kinda "the" Orbital album I needed to get, but I lived in a remote community and was limited by whatever I could find at the record store when we'd go into town. When I picked it up it's like everything I already knew I loved about Orbital came together in one singular piece (although interestingly there are no 4-on-the-floor tracks on the whole album). They managed to capture something on this album that is as diverse and colourful as the artwork. Everything is so lush and alive.

Danke

I thought this looked familiar... it's the same font Stereolab used on Cobra and Phases/First of the Microbe Hunters albums:

Niceee. Dekc is a classic

From the other one

Hahahaha yessss

Lush

Also

I was a small child so I don't remember much, but my parents played this album all the time and it still kicks ass: Also this was my fav song. I stand by it