Orbital – Orbital

Picked up the Green album box set so had to follow up with this. Top notch quality throughout, booklet with a couple of flyers thrown in is a nice touch, all the vinyl is clean, flat, quiet and the mastering sounds good to my ears. Currently giving it a play through, while tidying up the garden (times and things I do might change, the soundtrack doesn't lol). Came with signed print.

Got a signed copy from Banquet Records and it's beautiful. One of the best sounding reissues I own

The best reissue ever. Get one until it’s out of stock!

For my fellow American customers. 🇺🇸 I got a hold of a RT employee earlier this week. Spoke with a polite associate who was hired on specifically to mitigate some of the blowback from their recent system swap. He said they’re working hard to restore faith of longtime customers, and are hoping to look back on 2025 as the “year of the Shopify blip”, or something. Basically well aware that it’s been a shit-show with orders, checkout systems, shipping dates, long response times, etc.

At the time of calling, he confirmed that their total inventory is > orders placed, so it’s not a case of accidentally overselling stock. (Something I’ve recently had to deal with from them.) He mentioned there was a delay in getting the inventory to US stores, but ran out on the floor and confirmed they were selling copies of this variant. As such, he insisted that I’d have a tracking number next week and encouraged me to call him back and raise hell if I didn’t. Cool dude.

tl,dr; at least some of RT’s staff know how much of a clusterfuck the Shopify transition has been. For this particular exclusive, for US customers, stock has not oversold and shipment notifications should roll out by 6/6. If you’ve seen no traction on your order, you’re not alone.

Hope someone else finds this info handy. It should save you a call.

Also confirming what the others are saying, Quiet and nice base.

Lovely but neither Orange or Brown. More Cream and Green really.

I can confirm. This sounds exceptional. Quiet, beautiful bass, warm analogue sounds. Top marks, Orbital.

Has anyone in the US received this from Rough Trade yet?

Holy crap! This is really, really good! Thank you, Hartnoll bros!

The usual score with non-poly inners leaving you with initial static monsters. But the records themselves sound great. the Lush/Impact suite on Side B is absolutely thumping.