The Altogether (2001)

The Altogether is Orbital's sixth studio album and was released in 2001. It features guest vocals by Phil Hartnoll's brother-in-law David Gray, a sampled Ian Dury, a sample from "Sober" by Tool and a version of the Doctor Who theme. It was Orbital's last studio album for FFRR and received a mixed critical reception.

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Grave, spare, character-led and classical in form.

gravecomic
sparerichly built
character-ledplot-driven
classical in formformally daring
contemporarynostalgic

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Metacritic 66/100

AllMusic2/5 ★
Alternative Press3.5/5 ★
Blender3/5 ★
Mojo3.5/5 ★
Muzik5/5 ★
NME5/10
Pitchfork5.2/10
Q3/5 ★
Request75/100
Rolling Stone3/5 ★
URB4/5 ★

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Tracks

1Tension (5.1 mix)6:18
2Funny Break (One Is Enough) (5.1 mix)3:56
3Oi! (5.1 mix)5:09
4Pay Per View (5.1 mix)6:11
5Tootled (5.1 mix)4:51
6Last Thing (5.1 mix)5:12
7Shadows (5.1 mix)6:11
8Waving Not Drowning (5.1 mix)4:59
9Illuminate (5.1 mix)5:30
10Meltdown (5.1 mix)22:00
11Doctor? (5.1 mix)5:33
12Monorail (5.1 mix)6:37

12 tracks, 82 minutes.

About the album

Artist: Orbital
Label: FFRR
Type: Album
Format: DVD-Video
Country: XE

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