O.R.B. Set Oct. 6 Release for Naturality
Aussie heavy psych continues to flourish as the Victoria-based trio O.R.B. prepare for the Oct. 6 release of their new album, Naturality, via Castle Face Records. Drifting, buzzing and rolling out dreamscape weirdness, the long-player seems to find them working in the influence of tourmates King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, but whatever avenue they want to take to get around to the garage-jangle and fuzzed-out lead work on “Rainbows End” is cool by me. What matters is they get there and dig into some killer vibes along the way. Not saying I’ve heard the album or anything, but it’s an effective fusion of psychedelic impulses new and old, and the vibe runs as thick as the leadoff riff in almost-centerpiece “Immortal Tortoise,” which is plenty, plenty thick.
The PR wire brings word of headtrips to come:
Announcing new album from Aussie heavy psych-rock trio ORB, ‘Naturality’, on Castle Face Records
An exciting development from under strange Australian lab-lights: O.R.B. have respawned from last year’s BIRTH with a further mutated slab of paranoid heavy shred, Naturality. They bring the dread with a kinetic muscularity and a pleasantly evolving synthetic strangeness, as if having eaten of the wrong part of the garden, familiar things start to seem less so. The effects of these spores on your modern brain, already clogged with a steady drip of zips and zooms, are freshly heard and confusing.
O.R.B. are young and fleet fingered, and certainly know their way around a riff, but they bring everything into an almost alien clarity both blunted and futuristic. O.R.B., you see, have ripened quite radically, one can only think at an accelerated pace upon their travels with King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, and Naturality finds them sprouting new appendages and clawing at their enclosures. This is potent stuff, be careful – it’s out on Castle Face October 6th.
Artist: ORB
Title: Naturality
Label: Castle Face
Format: LP/CD
Release date: 6th October 2017
Tracklist
1. Hazlewart
2. A Man In The Sand
3. You Are Right
4. O.R.B.
5. Immortal Tortoise
6. Motherbrain
7. Flying Sorcerer
8. Rainbows End
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