Bleep

The second set of proto-reggae collaborations from ambient titans The Orb and Jamaican icon Scratch, ‘More Tales From The Orbservatory’ takes us back to the murky universe the two stars created last year. ‘No Ice Age’ is a prayer for Rasta peace over bobbing bass and shimmering chords, possibly the clearest reggae track here, while ‘Africa’ fidgets with flutes and ambient pads that sound like lions roaring in the distance. Scratch and The Orb make beautifully strange stuff - hopefully there’s another LP in them after this.