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Orbury Common
Orbury Common
country: UK
genre: Electronic
styles: Experimental, Ambient, Alternative Electronica
Pale Faith
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ORBURY COMMON exists as a place in the musical imagination of Emlyn Bainbridge and Josh Day-Jones: an opalescent, dream-like otherworld of fogged memory and refracted mythology.
Having explored the frenzied nightlife of this place with The Traditional Dance of Orbury Common EP (PRAH Recordings, 2022), the Bristol / Stroud duo recently announced details of their debut album. Sylvan Chute will be released 7th June on PRAH, a panoramic overview of the world they have envisioned, a series of individual yet interwoven vignettes, a musical map of abstract melodramas.
Today, they share a brand new single in the shape of “Pale Faith”
“Pale Faith is a synthetic, pulsing, romp through a medieval forest - a fable of fountains and folly. Imagine, if you will, the ‘Merlin’ and ‘Robin Hood’ TV franchises but processed through the Hadron Collider, with the edges sanded down and a nice bit of varnish.” - Orbury Common
"Pale Faith" follows last month's single "Jaundice & The Pipermen”, which launched with a Jonah Kidd-directed music video
Prior to that, the duo shared “Finer Scales” and the “The Resident”, the latter of which surfaced with a music video made by Alfie Dwyer (Aphex Twin, Eric Andre et al).
About Orbury Common and Sylvan Chute
Departing from the distorted club pulses of Traditional Dance…, we now hear subverted pop songs and surreal ballads, wherein earthy (and unearthly) synths, deformed samples and mangled drum beats coalesce with and ensemble of zithers, flutes, organs and guitars.
Orbury Common’s shift in sound is most notably emphasised by the introduction of the pair’s vocals, placed at the heart of arrangements; bringing a new, animate and intimate life to their dreamscape. The songs’ subject matters stretch from chrome-coated medieval fables through to depraved landscapes and even to technologically ill-fated romance. There are moments of light, darkness, grandeur and tenderness, tethered together by an iridescent thread of yearning for something, someone or someplace.
latest releases
LP
Sylvan Chute
out on June 07, 2024
via PRAH Recordings
Single
Jaundice & The Pipermen
out on April 24, 2024
via PRAH Recordings
Single
Finer Scales
out on April 03, 2024
via PRAH Recordings
Single
The Resident
out on February 27, 2024
via PRAH Recordings
EP
Devil Gurning
out on April 21, 2023
via PRAH Recordings
Single
Constant Billy (feat. Boss Morris)
out on March 06, 2023
via PRAH Recordings
