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The Dream Image
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7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 5 Ratings

  • Summary: The latest album from the electronic group features guests Steve Hillage, Eric Walker, Aki Omori, Andy Caine, and Juliet Roberts.

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Beautiful Day
To the North of Kathmandu There's tiny children sniffing glue Like losers in a Michael Winner script It's got a BMX certificate And somewhere in the... See the rest of the song lyrics
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    For now, via tracks like 'High Noon' and 'Mother Nature,' they continue to ride high in the saddle on much the same sine waves they engineered in the previous millennium. [Summer 2008, p.100]
  2. The Dream isn't just produced well but also programmed well, only slowing down after 73 minutes to a gradual halt on the dreamy underwater backbeats of 'Codes' and the beatless closer 'Orbisonia.'
  3. The Dream is clearly a return to form, and a graceful one at that.
  4. Dr Alex Paterson and co are open for business again, plying their dubby squiggles, electronic bubblebaths and trippy soundbites to the next generation of cosmic travellers. It’s well worth a dip.
  5. No new ground broken. No glo-stick/daft haircut stabs at credibility. Some old haunts revisited. Shameless? Perhaps. Anyone else doing a similar musical pot pourri to such goofed-out, quality chill? No. as the good Dr described it, this is simply a follow-on from their biggest album UFOrb, which was a timeless classic.
  6. A little mystery of the sort is desirable, even necessary, but The Dream has a habit of dashing the murky, dreamy Orb world in ways that aren't ideal.
  7. Ultimately, this particular dream is less one of flight or past glories, and more one of going to work and finding you've forgotten your trousers.

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