The acclaimed British super-producer and composer of the 1990s and 2000s, and now painter, returns with his first LP for nearly a decade after a prolonged period of health issues, with refined, gentle, colourful collection of electronica and ambient textures, with guest vocalists including Beth Orton and Georgia. Orbit (aka William Mark Wainwright) is now as much a painter as producer, and a fine one at that, and this is an artform that seems to have helped him recover from drug- and mental health-related issues, and this is a running theme, across gentle, ethereal numbers, including I Paint What I See with Beth Orton, and Colours Colliding (with Polly Scattergood). Overall this feels like a work of self-recovery with other standouts including the powerful No Other World, also with Orton, Bank of Wildflowers (with Georgia), opener Duende (with Katie Melua), the otherworldly but also strangely catchy Heshima kwa Hukwe among others. There are also explorations into latino pop, such as on Nuestra Situación (feat. Lido Pimienta). A mixed-bag but fascinating, experimental and therapeutic. Out on Rhino Records.
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