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Track List
01) One Big Moment
02) Straight Sun
03) Never
04) New France
05) Distractions
06) Stringy Acid
07) Beelzedub
08) Wonky
09) Where Is It Going?
01) One Big Moment
02) Straight Sun
03) Never
04) New France
05) Distractions
06) Stringy Acid
07) Beelzedub
08) Wonky
09) Where Is It Going?
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First Released
2012
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Wonky is the eighth studio album by Orbital, released on their own ACP label (via Warner Music Group/Alternative Distribution Alliance) in the UK on 2 April 2012, and exclusively through iTunes in the USA and Canada on 17 April 2012. The album is their first since the Blue Album in 2004 and the first since they reformed in 2008. It features vocals from Zola Jesus and Lady Leshurr.
Wonky debuted at number 22 on the UK Albums Chart, selling 8,001 copies in its first week. This was their highest position on the album chart since 2001.
Following their reformation and successful comeback concerts, Orbital decided that they needed to write new material to include in their live shows. The album was recorded mostly using vintage and analogue synthesisers between January and November 2011 in Brighton where the Hartnoll brothers both live, and the producer Flood was brought in to help with the mixing.
The album's title is, according to Paul Hartnoll, a reference to the fact that "we've never really fitted in".
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It would seem that with their Star Trek-sampling track Time Becomes, from their self-titled LP of 1993 ”“ "”¦where time becomes a loop," repeats actor Michael Dorn ”“ Orbital were already seeing into the future of a perpetual forever, locked into a pattern of repetition.
Now, nearly 20 years on from the ‘brown album’, nearly all of what passed for pop culture back then is with us again now. Yet a new album from Orbital wasn’t a guarantee for 2012 ”“ Phil and Paul would only enter the studio again, after a five-year hiatus from 2004, if their efforts were worthwhile. But public reaction to the pair’s 2009 live comeback confirmed they’d been much missed. As one of the first proper dance acts to transcend the rave scene and grow into festival headliners, some time before the likes of Leftfield and The Prodigy followed similar paths, Orbital’s audience has been sizeable for some time. Crucially, it’s also remained committed ”“ and that loyalty has been rewarded with a set possessed by a new vigour, more spectacular than it perhaps has any right to be.
Wonky is loosely based around the concept of a journey. Phil and Paul actually drew a map of how they wanted the album to progress, with opener One Big Moment the sound of re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere, announcing their arrival, leading to Straight Sun’s establishing beat that sets a defining tone. Distractions, with its burbling acid backing and mucked-about-with vocals, calls to mind moments from the ‘brown album’ era, as does the amazing Stringy Acid ”“ although the latter is based on an old tune they found when rifling through early tapes. Elsewhere, Beezledub is the sound of Skrillex being hunted down by dubstep wolves; Zola Jesus screeches a bit of nu-gothery over New France; and the title-track gives Brummie MC Lady Leshurr the opportunity to have at it like a domestic Minaj, with just the right amount of builds to send a crowd into convulsions of pleasure.
Nobody would expect an eighth album by a band 20-plus years into its career to sound this fantastic, but time away has obviously helped re-energise the brothers into crafting this triumphantly grand return. It will leave middle-aged ravers ecstatic, and should allow a new generation to understand what their folks have been banging on about all these years.
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Wonky is the eighth studio album by Orbital, released on their own ACP label (via Warner Music Group/Alternative Distribution Alliance) in the UK on 2 April 2012, and exclusively through iTunes in the USA and Canada on 17 April 2012. The album is their first since the Blue Album in 2004 and the first since they reformed in 2008. It features vocals from Zola Jesus and Lady Leshurr.
Wonky debuted at number 22 on the UK Albums Chart, selling 8,001 copies in its first week. This was their highest position on the album chart since 2001.
Following their reformation and successful comeback concerts, Orbital decided that they needed to write new material to include in their live shows. The album was recorded mostly using vintage and analogue synthesisers between January and November 2011 in Brighton where the Hartnoll brothers both live, and the producer Flood was brought in to help with the mixing.
The album's title is, according to Paul Hartnoll, a reference to the fact that "we've never really fitted in".
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It would seem that with their Star Trek-sampling track Time Becomes, from their self-titled LP of 1993 ”“ "”¦where time becomes a loop," repeats actor Michael Dorn ”“ Orbital were already seeing into the future of a perpetual forever, locked into a pattern of repetition.
Now, nearly 20 years on from the ‘brown album’, nearly all of what passed for pop culture back then is with us again now. Yet a new album from Orbital wasn’t a guarantee for 2012 ”“ Phil and Paul would only enter the studio again, after a five-year hiatus from 2004, if their efforts were worthwhile. But public reaction to the pair’s 2009 live comeback confirmed they’d been much missed. As one of the first proper dance acts to transcend the rave scene and grow into festival headliners, some time before the likes of Leftfield and The Prodigy followed similar paths, Orbital’s audience has been sizeable for some time. Crucially, it’s also remained committed ”“ and that loyalty has been rewarded with a set possessed by a new vigour, more spectacular than it perhaps has any right to be.
Wonky is loosely based around the concept of a journey. Phil and Paul actually drew a map of how they wanted the album to progress, with opener One Big Moment the sound of re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere, announcing their arrival, leading to Straight Sun’s establishing beat that sets a defining tone. Distractions, with its burbling acid backing and mucked-about-with vocals, calls to mind moments from the ‘brown album’ era, as does the amazing Stringy Acid ”“ although the latter is based on an old tune they found when rifling through early tapes. Elsewhere, Beezledub is the sound of Skrillex being hunted down by dubstep wolves; Zola Jesus screeches a bit of nu-gothery over New France; and the title-track gives Brummie MC Lady Leshurr the opportunity to have at it like a domestic Minaj, with just the right amount of builds to send a crowd into convulsions of pleasure.
Nobody would expect an eighth album by a band 20-plus years into its career to sound this fantastic, but time away has obviously helped re-energise the brothers into crafting this triumphantly grand return. It will leave middle-aged ravers ecstatic, and should allow a new generation to understand what their folks have been banging on about all these years.
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