I think "Spare Parts Express" is probably the most ostentatiously restless of Orbital's tracks, and the way it goes from so ludicrously bright and intense (like fluorescent lights pointed directly into your face) into nervous territory and then gothic territory and then back again is quite amazing - not because it does this per se, but because each idea drifts into the next so organically, so inevitably, such that the joins don't register as joins. I probably listen to this album the most of their albums but mostly for sentimental reasons - in many senses it's weaker than Brown, In Sides and MoN in that it mostly shies away from what is Orbital's key weapon - the redemption of complexity as a viable modus operandi in and of itself. Incidentally Snivilisation strikes me as an album with intentionally few ideas-per-track, with only a handful of obvious exceptions ("Forever", "Sad But True", "Are We Here?"). The myopic intensity of many of the best tracks on Beaucoup Fish is an excellent example of this. Not surprising that Tombot chose Underworld over Orbital in the versus thread - Underworld are kinda like the middle ground between these two positions, jacking one or two ideas and then gradually transitioning to jacking another one or two ideas.
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