- electronic
- 85 min
- 17 tracks
- ACP Recordings
Monsters Exist is the ninth studio album by Orbital, released on 14 September 2018 through their own ACP label. It is their first studio album in six years and the first since they reformed for the second time in 2017. The title is shown in the earlier video for "The Box" in 1996 when Tilda Swinton glances at an array of TV screens.
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Grave, classical in form, spare and character-led.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
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Metacritic 67/100
- AllMusic3.5/5 ★
- The Arts Desk4/5 ★
- Drowned in Sound8/10
- Exclaim!6/10
- Pitchfork6/10
- PopMatters8/10
- Q3/5 ★
- Release Magazine10/10
- Slant Magazine3/5 ★
- Uncut4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Monsters Exist5:53
- 2Hoo Hoo Ha Ha4:05
- 3The Raid5:01
- 4P.H.U.K.7:25
- 5Tiny Foldable Cities5:45
- 6Buried Deep Within4:27
- 7Vision OnE5:44
- 8The End Is Nigh4:36
- 9There Will Come a Time7:14
- 1Kaiju5:26
- 2A Long Way From Home1:31
- 3Analogue Test Oct 163:07
- 4Fun With the System4:15
- 5Dressing Up in Other People’s Clothes4:37
- 6To Dream Again4:39
- 7There Will Come a Time (instrumental)7:14
- 8Tiny Foldable Cities (Kareful remix)3:37
17 tracks, 85 minutes.
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