The Dream (The Orb album)

The Dream
Studio album by
The Orb
Released27 August 2007
Genre
Length72:56
Label
ProducerThe Orb
The Orb chronology
Okie Dokie It's the Orb on Kompakt
(2005) 		The Dream
(2007) 		Baghdad Batteries (Orbsessions Volume III)
(2009)
Singles from The Dream
  1. "Vuja De"
    Released: 2007
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic62/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The A.V. ClubC[3]
MusicOMH[4]
NME6/10[5]
Pitchfork3.6/10[6]
PopMatters7/10[7]
Q[8]
Record Collector[9]
Uncut[10]
URB[11]

The Dream is the eighth studio album by the English electronic music group the Orb. It was released on 27 August 2007 by Liquid Sound Design, Traffic Inc., and Six Degrees Records and for the first time released on vinyl in 2023. The album represents something of a return to their earlier sound and shares much more in common with their 2004 album Bicycles and Tricycles as opposed to the minimal 2005 release Okie Dokie It's the Orb on Kompakt. Orb member Thomas Fehlmann was absent on the album, and Paterson was instead reunited with Martin Glover, and joined by Tim Bran of Dreadzone.[12]

  1. ^ "The Dream by The Orb".
  2. ^ Bush, John. The Dream review AllMusic. Retrieved on 6 July 2011.
  3. ^ Battaglia, Andy. The Dream review Archived 21 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine avclub.com. 23 June 2008. Retrieved on 2011-07-06.
  4. ^ No new ground broken. No glo-stick/daft haircut stabs at credibility. Some old haunts revisited. Shameless? Perhaps. Anyone else doing a similar musical pot pourri to such goofed-out, quality chill? No. as the good Dr described it, this is simply a follow-on from their biggest album UFOrb, which was a timeless classic.
  5. ^ The Dream review nme.com. 1 February 2008. Retrieved on 2011-07-06.
  6. ^ Ewing, Tom. The Orb: The Dream Album Review pitchforkmedia.com. 9 June 2008. Retrieved on 2016-11-29.
  7. ^ Ranta, Alan. The Dream review popmatters.com. 12 June 2008. Retrieved on 2011-07-06.
  8. ^ Orb nostalgists will find much to savour. [Mar 2008, p.108]
  9. ^ "The Dream – Record Collector Magazine". recordcollectormag.com.
  10. ^ A partnership with Cologne's minimal techno doyens Kompakt hasn't quite posited the outfit back at the cutting edge, but The Dream steps with a new vitality. [Mar 2008, p.96]
  11. ^ URB (Magazine) (p. 85) – 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Ever-present is the exotic, Eastern-sounding instrumentation and random dialogues sounding as if lifted from obscure cinema; and 'Katskills' is, quite simply, a killer, purist Orb track.". .
  12. ^ Bush, John. "The Dream > Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 June 2008. [dead link‍]