Artist.......: Orwell
Album........: Continental
Label........: Pigalle production / Europop
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Aug-27-2011
str.date.....: 2011
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
01. continental 05:14
02. lonely ride 04:01
03. on this brightful day 04:16
04. the wife, the battlefield 03:22
05. follow me, boy 03:32
06. eastern 02:29
07. always 04:32
08. anytime is now 04:41
09. them 07:35
10. secret movies 02:48
11. a long way to the start 03:52
12. following... 01:21
13. every time the world is too loud 05:16
Runtime 52:59 min
Size 90,6 MB
Release Notes:
Orwell is pretty much solely JΘrome Didelot, a
resident of Metz, the capital of the Lorraine in
north-east France. Others pass though the line up û
including Cascadeur û but Didelot is Orwell and his
fourth album takes unexpected turns.
His last album, 2009Æs Le GΘnie Humain,conjured a
baroque world reflecting an immersion in late
Zombies, Beach Boys and John Barry, with a
songwriting sensibility that matched Tahiti 80 at
their most ageless. That warm-sounding album had an
acoustic, spaciousness, like the music Didelot
obviously loves. Continental, though, is subtly
suffused with 70s-style electronics, with washes of
synth, rhythmic stabs, blippy drum machines and
Kraftwerk/Cluster-style keyboard sequences. His
writing remains classy, and songs like the dreamy,
ba-ba-ba and string-infused 'Lonely Ride' more than
match his influences. These new instrumental
elements bring more depth rather than making
Continental a machine pop album, as with The
Monkees on 'Daily Nightly'.
Whatever the tools, Continental is a sensitive
album, stuffed with classically-inclined pop. It
may be a little sugary for 50 minutes-worth and
doesnÆt stray far from a self-determined comfort
zone, but it's impossible not to succumb to aural
swoons like the pulsing 'Always' and the Another
Green World-esque instrumental 'Secret Movies'.
Tahiti 80 have moved in a harder direction and with
material still awaited from Fugu, Didelot has a
wide-open field in France.