More Tales from the Orbservatory

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More Tales from the Orbservatory
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Studio album by
Released3 June 2013
Genre Electronica, dub, IDM, chill-out, trip hop
Length52:30
Label Cooking Vinyl, [1] The End Records [2]
Producer The Orb
The Orb featuring Lee 'Scratch' Perry chronology
The Orbserver in the Star House
(2012)
More Tales from the Orbservatory
(2013)
Moonbuilding 2703 AD
(2015)

More Tales from the Orbservatory is the twelfth studio album from ambient house duo The Orb, released on 3 June 2013.

Contents

Background

Like The Orbserver in the Star House , the album features reggae producer Lee 'Scratch' Perry on vocals. It was also recorded at the same sessions of The Orbserver in the Star House. [1]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 61/100 [3]
Review scores
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Initial critical response to More Tales from the Orbservatory was mixed to positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 61, based on 4 reviews. [3]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Fussball"4:31
2."Africa"5:33
3."Tight Interlude"1:22
4."Making Love in Dub"6:45
5."No Ice Age"4:19
6."Don't Rush I"4:37
7."Fussball" (Instrumental)4:30
8."Africa" (Instrumental)5:31
9."Making Love in Dub" (Instrumental)6:45
10."No Ice Age" (Instrumental)4:16
11."Don't Rush I" (Instrumental)4:29
Total length:52:30

Personnel

The Orb

Other personnel

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References

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  4. Freeforms about football, his old tunes and beyond, to variably potent digi-dub backings. [Aug 2013, p.98]
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