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It's impressively ambitious stuff. But there's also plenty of humor, stretching from the CD case, through to "The Land of Green Ginger," with its clattering percussion and cheerful whistling, where Jason somehow keeps a straight face in recounting a tale of wizards and enchantments. This is the way throughout, with Paterson veering between playfulness and serious intent. In this he has much in common with the psychedelic revolutionaries of the mid-60s. --Dominic Wills
| ARTIST: | Orb |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Cooking Vinyl |
| FEATURES: | Import |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Orb Is, Aftermath (Ft Me Soom T ), Land Of Green Ginger, Hell's Kitchen, Gee Strings, Prime Evil, Abstractions Trance (Pennine Express Mix), Luca, From A Distance (Blastmaster Vs The Corpral Mix), Tower Twenty Three (Spud Vs Kreature Mix), Kompania (Grooved Wave Mix), Dilmun |
| UPC: | 711297469820 |
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Customer Reviews of Bicycles & Tricycles
not perfect , but pretty great I've only listened to this CD once so far, but it's definitely becoming one of my favorite Orb albums already.
The first half is a bit of a mixed bag - it starts out with Orb Is, which sounds like a tribute to the "ultraworld" style, and is pretty cool. Then there's Aftermath, with a rapper who sounds surprisingly young and not all that interesting. Things get better with The Land of Green Ginger, although it's not all that much better than the mix on the Back to Mine compilation. Hell's Kitchen, however, is pretty pleasant and groovy. Prime Evil is also cool, especially if you liked S.A.L.T. on Orblivion.
Things just get better in the second half though. Abstractions and LUCA are two of the coolest ambient with beats kind of tracks that the Orb has done. From a Distance amd Tower 23 aren't quite as good (or as long) as A Huge Ever Growing etc. and Towers of Dub, which they remix and imitate, but they're a lot of fun anyway. The album wraps up with a couple fresh, new, distorted ambient tracks.
Overall, this is good stuff, and while the Orb's last album might have ended with "Terminus," the Orb clearly didn't stop there. My only real gripe is that it's kinda short at only 63 minutes total. Would've been nice to have some tracks break the 10 minute mark, but hey, what's here is good.
The rapper ruins it
I've been into the Orb for quite sometime and have hunted down some of their more rare selections. I purchased the Japanese edition last fall and enjoyed it fairly well though the first track, 'From a Distance', is a bit too fluffy. I was passing through the UK and saw the recently released UK version with a different track sequence and mixes (one of those being a great rework of the previously mentioned 'fluffy' track). Track two, 'Aftermath', is horrid. Me Soon T sounds like an infant with a mouthful of something foul. Alex Patterson's production on that track is quite lackluster as well, so there's no hope but skipping to the next track. Fear not, The rest of the disc is fantastic. It is a shame that track two is such a digression from what is otherwise a five star album.