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- Summary: Yes, for those of you keeping score at home, Alex Paterson is indeed still recording as The Orb, with 'Bicycles' marking the once trailblazing electronica group's sixth studio release.
- Record Label: Sanctuary / Cooking Vinyl
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 13
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Mixed: 8 out of 13
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Negative: 1 out of 13
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Urb11 tracks of classic ambient house and melodic decks and EFX exercises. [Sep 2004, p.116]
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Showcases the Orb back in peak form.
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There's precious little here not to like, and it's as satisfying an experience as any of the ambient survivors have produced in years.
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Bicycles & Tricycles is a bit of a letdown, especially after a three-year absence.
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MojoWhile they're hardly cutting-edge these days, The Orb's gently pleasing grooves... still work as aural enhancers for the cannabinoidally-incliined. [Jun 2004, p.114]
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Though Patterson is still largely peddling outdated sample-heavy narco-trance, the new disc is quite an improvement from 2001’s career-low Cydonia even if it may share that record’s flaws.
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New Musical Express (NME)More of the same from an act who have been ploughing the same furrow for so long they'll be reaching the Earth's core soon. [5 Jun 2004, p.57]
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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edwardtOct 27, 2005a tweak in another dimesion still inspiring, listen out for orbient humour exquisite and uplifting
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PeterTAug 26, 2005Very good ambient album... Super rythms and noises.
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