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词条 Cydonia (album)
释义

  1. Production

  2. Critical reception

  3. Track listing

     UK edition  Remastered and Expanded edition – 2008 

  4. References

  5. External links

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| name = Cydonia
| type = Album
| artist = The Orb
| cover = Orb-Cydonia.jpg
| alt =
| released = 27 February 2001
| recorded = 1998
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = {{flatlist|
  • Ambient house
  • trip hop
  • IDM
  • drum and bass

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| length = 68:38
| label = {{flatlist|
  • Island
  • MCA

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| producer = {{flatlist|
  • Alex Paterson
  • Thomas Fehlmann
  • Andy Hughes

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| prev_title = Orblivion
| prev_year = 1997
| next_title = Bicycles & Tricycles
| next_year = 2004
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Cydonia is the fifth studio album by English electronic music duo the Orb. It was released on 27 February 2001 in the United Kingdom by Island Records and in the United States by MCA Records. Members Alex Paterson and Thomas Fehlmann, along with usual collaborators Andy Hughes, Nick Burton, and Simon Phillips, wrote and produced the album for a planned 1999 release.[1] Featured on the album are Robert Fripp, John Roome, and Fil Le Gonidec, who had previously only worked with the Orb in live performances.

Production

Unlike previous Orb albums, Cydonia featured several 'proper' songs with vocals, which critics felt did not sound similar to Orb songs.[2] Singers Nina Walsh and Aki Omori appeared on two tracks each on Cydonia, providing vocals and co-writing lyrics with Paterson, who felt that this new direction for the Orb was more similar to the experimental work of Orbus Terrarum, rather than the poppish techno of Orblivion.[3]

The Orb produced two CDs worth of material for the album and eventually cut it down for the final release. However, to the displeasure of Paterson, large portions of both CDs were leaked through Napster.[4] As Island Records was trapped in major-label-restructuring limbo because of its recent merger between the MCA and PolyGram families that created Universal Music Group, Cydonia was not released until 2001.[4][5] "It's a strange situation," Paterson noted at the time, "I'm getting more contact out of my pet terrapins than I am out of my record company."[6]

Critical reception

{{Album ratings
|MC = 64/100[7]
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}[8]
|rev2 = Pitchfork Media
|rev2score = 6.1/10[9]
|rev3 = Rolling Stone
|rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}[10]
|rev4 = Alternative Press
|rev4score = {{Rating|3|5}}[11]
|rev5 = NME
|rev5score = 3/10[12]
|rev6 = Release Magazine
|rev6score = 6/10[13]
|rev7 = Uncut
|rev7score = {{Rating|3|5}}[14]
|rev8 = Muzik
|rev8score = {{Rating|5|5}}[15]
}}{{listen
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| title = "Ghostdancing" (2001)
| description = Clip from "Ghostdancing" of the trip hop and drum and bass influenced Cydonia.
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Upon release, critics noted that Cydonia merged pop, trance, and ambient-dub, which they felt to be a conglomeration of bland vocals and uninventive ambience.[5][16] NME harshly described it as "a stillborn relic, flawed throughout by chronically stunted ambitions" and describing its only appropriate audience to be "old ravers" seeking nostalgia.[17] With the album came the single "Once More" featuring remixes from Bedrock and Mark Pritchard. Paterson believed that "Centuries", another vocal piece from Cydonia, was also worth releasing as a single, but Island chose to wait and see how successful the album was before making a final decision.[4] Not only did the album receive poor reviews, but The Orb was frequently regarded by the UK press as past the peak years of the creative years, being an "ambient dinosaur" out of place in the current dance music environment.[16][18] After the release of Cydonia, Hughes left the group, becoming "another acrimonious departure from The Orb".[19]

Track listing

  1. "Once More" – 4:42
  2. "Promis" – 5:27
  3. "Ghostdancing" – 7:29
  4. "Turn It Down" – 8:44
  5. "Mile Long Lump of Lard" - 8:28
  6. "Ralf" - 7:40
  7. "Freely Wheely" - 7:22
  8. "Lungle - 10:39
  9. "Terminus - 11:02

UK edition

  1. "Once More" – 4:17
  2. "Promis" – 5:27
  3. "Ghostdancing" – 7:29
  4. "Turn It Down" – 8:38
  5. "Egnable" – 1:59
  6. "Firestar" – 0:46
  7. "A Mile Long Lump of Lard" – 6:21
  8. "Centuries" – 4:22
  9. "Plum Island" – 5:22
  10. "Hamlet of Kings" – 7:56
  11. "1.1.1" – 0:36
  12. "EDM" – 4:12
  13. "Thursday's Keeper" – 4:09
  14. "Terminus" – 11:16 (w/ Robert Fripp)

Remastered and Expanded edition – 2008

CD1

  1. "Once More" – 4:17
  2. "Promis" – 5:27
  3. "Ghostdancing" – 7:29
  4. "Turn It Down" – 8:38
  5. "Egnable" – 1:59
  6. "Firestar" – 0:46
  7. "A Mile Long Lump of Lard" – 6:21
  8. "Centuries" – 4:22
  9. "Plum Island" – 5:22
  10. "Hamlet of Kings" – 7:56
  11. "1.1.1" – 0:36
  12. "EDM" – 4:12
  13. "Thursday's Keeper" – 4:09
  14. "Terminus" – 11:16 (w/ Robert Fripp)

CD2

  1. "Centuries (Eurofen Mix)" – 4:42
  2. "Ghostdancing (Version)" – 6:45
  3. "Hamlet of Kings (Version)" – 7:58
  4. "Firestar (Version)" – 1:14
  5. "Centuries (Wine, Woman & King Mix)" – 4:01
  6. "Once More (Scourge of the Earth Mix)" – 4:53
  7. "Plum Island (Flat Mix)" – 5:21
  8. "Promis (Version)" – 5:46
  9. "Once More (Bedrock Edit 2)" – 8:04
  10. "Turn It Down (Long Version)" – 9:03
  11. "Terminus (Andy's Mix)" – 11:07

References

1. ^{{cite web|url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p5071/biography|pure_url=yes}} |title=The Orb Biography |accessdate=9 October 2006 |last = Bush |first = John |publisher = Allmusic}}
2. ^{{cite news|last=Cowen |first=Andrew |title=What goes around comes around |date=19 March 2001 |page=13 |work=Birmingham Post}}
3. ^{{cite web|publisher=VH1 |date=27 February 2001 |last=Demby |first=Eric |url=http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1440987/02262001/orb.jhtml |title=Orb Back From Orblivion With New LP, Cydonia}}
4. ^1 2 {{cite web|title=Q and A: Alex Paterson |last=O'Neal |first=Sean |date=19 April 2001 |url=http://www.citypaper.net/articles/041901/music.qa.shtml |work=Philadelphia City Paper}}
5. ^1 {{cite web|last = Bush |first= John |url= {{Allmusic|class=album|id=r518403|pure_url=yes}} |title=Cydonia Review |accessdate=10 October 2006 |publisher=Allmusic}}
6. ^Q, May 2001
7. ^http://www.metacritic.com/music/cydonia/the-orb
8. ^[{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r518403|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]
9. ^Pitchfork Media review
10. ^[https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/theorb/albums/album/260757/review/5944291/cydonia Rolling Stone review]
11. ^Alternative Press (6/01, p.78) - 3 out of 5 - "...Mellow dancefloor electronica laced with some inspired rhythms and catchy melodies..."
12. ^New Musical Express review {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071119052420/http://www.nme.com/reviews/3953.htm |date=19 November 2007 }}
13. ^http://www.releasemagazine.net/Onrecord/ororbc.htm
14. ^Uncut (2/01, p.89) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Floating along on its own soft dynamic, CYDONIA retrenches itself in the dub style of yore..."
15. ^Muzik (2/01, p.51) - 5 out of 5 - "...His most cohesive work to date...they manage to sound like no one elese when they put their minds to it..."
16. ^1 {{cite news|title=A dance pioneer who's just going round in circles |last=Walker |first=Richard |page=10 |date=4 March 2001 |work=Sunday Herald}}
17. ^{{cite web |work=New Musical Express |last=Pattison |first=Louis |year=2001 |accessdate=13 October 2006 |title=Orb : Cydonia |url=http://www.nme.com/reviews/3953.htm |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071119052420/http://www.nme.com/reviews/3953.htm |archivedate=19 November 2007 |df=dmy }}
18. ^{{cite news|work=The Scotsman |last=Smith |first=Aidan |date=16 February 2001 |title=A master of the ballistic |page=10}}
19. ^{{cite news|work=The Guardian |last=Simpson |first=Dave |date=19 January 2001 |page=6 |title=The Friday Interview}}

External links

  • {{Discogs release|id=2732|name=Cydonia}}
{{The Orb}}

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