ORB return with their new album, 'Tailem Bend', out now alongside a great new video for 'Karma Comes'!
Aussie psych legends ORB return with their new album, 'Tailem Bend', out now. It's their first record in nearly six years and is released today alongside a great new video for 'Karma Comes'! Watch the video and pick up the album on vinyl/CD here
Saturated in vintage warmth and depth, ‘Tailem Bend’ showcases ORB’s knack for achieving tuneful hypnosis amidst a dank roominess. It snakes through big, brash riffing as often as it does sun-dappled psych pop, with memorable rhythmic runs and funky wah licks along the way. There are still the inevitable avalanches of fuzz, but also present now are mellower passages and a renewed focus on rhythm and space.
As signalled by the cover artwork from Parsnip’s Paris Richens – which depicts either a swan or a fish, depending on how you look at it – ORB have returned with an album that rewards taking it in from multiple angles. There’s plenty of the band we know and love, but there’s also enough of the new to prompt a healthy succession of double takes.
Limited edition vinyl variants are available from the Fuzz Club store (red & white swirl LP), Rough Trade (splatter LP) and Levitation (half & half / splatter LP), and you can also pick it up on standard red LP in all good record stores!