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The Orb - Baghdad Batteries [Orbsessions Volume III] (2009)

Posted By: varrock
The Orb - Baghdad Batteries [Orbsessions Volume III] (2009)

The Orb - Baghdad Batteries [Orbsessions Volume III] (2009)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Tracks: 12 | 62:26 min | 144 Mb
Style: Electronic | Label: Malicious Damage

Reunited for the first time since 2005's Okie Dokie It's The Orb On Kompakt, Alex Patterson and Thomas Fehlmann have set about recording brand new material for this third Orbsessions installment (the last two of which have been composites of older fragments of material hauled out of the vaults). As you'd want from a new Orb release, the album is a dense flow of ambient sounds, vividly rendered by these two most seasoned of producers in the field, but there's an unexpected disco-styled twist to the record that takes hold of tracks such as 'Super Soakers' and 'Suburban Smog' that really nails the zeitgeist for ethereal dancefloor sounds and heavily layered psychedelic loops.
It wouldn't be entirely untoward to to suggest that Panda Bear has had some impact on the sound of this album. You might even suggest that beyond The Orb's usual audience (who are unlikely to be disappointed with the likes of 'Dolly Unit' and 'Orban Tumbleweed'), anyone who's found themselves intoxicated by the hazy 4/4 sounds of bands like Air France - and of course, The Field - will appreciate much of Baghdad Batteries. It's as sumptuously well-assembled as ever, but this new set from Patterson and Feldman finds The Orb sounding more tuned into the current musical climate than you might have expected.

Tracklist:

01. Styrofoam Meltdown 3:45
02. Chocolate Fingers 5:13
03. Baghdad Batteries 5:09
04. Raven's Reprise 4:12
05. Dolly Unit 5:01
06. Super Soakers 8:41
07. Suburban Smog 6:51
08. Orban Tumbleweed 3:22
09. Pebbles 1:08
10. Woodlarking 3:47
11. OOPA 6:12
12. Dolly Unit (Majestic Flowing Remix) 8:48