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Rating: Ed and Tom emerge from their basement with this album of "consolidation".
We leave Old school to Fatboy Slim.
We leave Techno to Daft Punk.
Not bad though for Orbital...
Whether they thought that way or not, this is what resonates from the album's sounds. Aside from the poor "It Began In Africa," the album is good.
It contains self-references à la Evan Dando (you can hear the sounds of "Song For Sirens" just about everywhere), old and new things remixed together.
I like "Come With Us," "Star Guitar," and "Galaxy Bounce." In the first one, there's a nice seventies touch inserted towards the end of the track.
Overall, it's pleasant and I haven't felt this sensation since the unbeatable "Exit Planet Dust," which the two astute ones have wisely decided to revisit here and there, mixed with "In-Sides" by Orbital (was that the one with the colorful cover?).
It's not love, but it’s a nice album. Get my drift?
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Come With Us (04:57)
Come with us
And leave your Earth behind
Bright and clear
We see the light
All universes at your side!
Please lead us to other suns' warm light
Behold
They're coming back
Behold
They're coming back
They're coming back
They're coming back
They're coming back
They're coming back
Come with us...
05 Hoops (06:31)
Here I go round again again again...
Think that I'll never come down again again again...
07 The State We're In (06:26)
I've been workin' baby for too long now
Just wanna get next to you boy
I've been searchin' baby, a way to tell you how
Gotta get through to you boy
Never said it was sunshine but you took it all of the time
Never said it was sunshine but you took it all of the time
All of the time, all of the time, all of the time
You took it all of the time
There's no escaping now
Let me show you how
What it feels to be true
I've been workin' baby for too long now
Just wanna get next to you boy
I've been searchin' baby, a way to tell you how
Gotta get through to you boy
Never said it was sunshine but you took it all of the time
Never said it was sunshine but you took it all of the time
All of the time, all of the time, all of the time
You took it all of the time
There's no escaping now
Let me show you how
What it feels to be true
There's no escaping now
Let me show you how
What it feels to be true
I've been workin' baby for too long now
I've been searchin' baby, a way to tell you how
10 The Test (07:46)
O-o-o-o-oh
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
yeeeh
Am I coming through?
Am I coming through?
Is this sweet and pure and true?
Devil came by this morning,
Said he had
Something to show me
I was looking like I've never seen a face before
Here we go now, let's slide into the open door
Pictures and things that I've done before
Circling around me,
Out here on the floor
I'm dreaming this and I'm dreaming that
Regretting nothing
Think about that
I'm seeing waves breaking form to my horizon
Yeah I'm shining
I'm seeing waves breaking form to my horizon
Lord, I'm shining
Are you hearing me?
Like I'm hearing you?
Are you hearing me?
Like I'm hearing you?
You know I almost lost my mind
I can't explain
Where I've been
You know I've almost lost my mind
I can't explain
Where I've been
You know I almost lost my mind
I couldn't explain
What I've seen
Im happy now to have seen it
To find that the images are fading away
I'm seeing waves breaking forms to my horizon
Yeah I'm shining
I'm seeing waves breaking forms to my horizon, lord
I'm shining yeah
Are you hearing me?
Like I'm hearing you?
Are you hearing me?
Like I'm hearing you?
You know I almost lost my mind
I can't explain
Where I've been
You know I almost lost my mind
I couldn't explain
The things I've seen
But now I think I see the light
Now I think I see the light
Lend me your hand
Lend me your hand
Lend me your hand
Lend me your hand
Lend me your hand
I'm seeing waves breaking form to my horizon
Yeah I'm shining
I'm seeing waves breaking form to my horizon, lord
I'm shining
Oh are you hearing me?
Like I'm hearing you
Oh are you hearing me?
Like I'm hearing you?
(Repeat)
You know I almost lost my mind
Now I'm home, and I'm free
Did I pass the acid test?
Did I pass the acid test?
(Repeat)
You'd better go to bed now
(Repeat)
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By karl
The album is formally beautiful, impeccable, with deep bass entering on hi-hats, but there isn’t a single song that makes me want to dig into the pile of CDs and play it right away.
Respect, but nothing more than that.
By PortoFolio
It’s impossible to resist these two geniuses, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons.
What is present in Come with Us is a melting pot of emotions, rhythms, and sounds that get stuck in your head.
By Jack_85
A work crafted down to the finest details.
Join them and let yourself be carried away by the music that only they know how to create.
