Orbital by Kenny McCracken
Orbital’s new album is out now.
Orbital have premiered the official video for Smiley – one of the brand new tracks which features on their recently released 30 Something album, part of the duo’s 30th anniversary celebrations and which also contains reworkings and remixes from the Hartnoll brothers’ back catalogue.
“We wanted to do something that represented where our heads are at now but wearing the clothes from back when we started,” Paul said. “So to chronicle thirty years of Orbital you’ve got this track that chronicles the very start of dance music in Sevenoaks. It’s our origin story.”
“And to make the very important point that, in civil rights terms, basically we all got beaten up by the police for having a party,” Phil added. “Could never happen now, everyone would film it on their phones. Instant police brutality case.”
