Search - David Usher :: Morning Orbit

Gotta get this CD!

greenjade08 | 03/17/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"David Usher is just awesome and this Cd shows us why! The music is excellent, especially the lyrics. My favourite songs from this album would be "Alone in the Universe", "Butterfly" and "Black Black Heart". Different from his first album, "Little Songs", this album is just as good, if not better.I left it on my CD player for almost 6 months, listening to it on my long bus rides to and from school. And it was only to be replaced briefly with Moist's number one singles (which is excellent as well!). After watching David Usher preform these songs in concert reaffirms the greatness of this album! It is a must for all music lovers as it covers a wide selection of music!
Try it out! You'll love it!"

Stunningly Original

Lee Armstrong | Winterville, NC United States | 12/02/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

""Little Songs," Usher's 1998 solo set, was brilliant with its care for arrangement, melody, and lyrical depth. "Morning Orbit" comes in a bit less dark, but equally compelling. "How Are You" opens with layered keyboard, guitar and multi-tracked backing vocals on this musically cheerful, lyrically dark track, "Had a vision of the ruby sky, we were riding high on our own pink elephant, another day in this f**ked-up life, another struggle just to get through nine to five." Four of his five bandmates from Moist play on the CD. Spine opens with insistent keyboards on the electric samba "Too Close to the Sun." My favorite track is "Black Black Heart." It gets a haunting, downright spooky treatment on track 3 followed by the uncredited electronic crunch guitar version that is track 12. Julia Galos' operatic background vocals give a surreal quality to the first version, "I'm eating all your kings & queens, all your sex & your diamonds as I begin to lose my grip on these realities you're sending, taste your mind & taste your sex; I'm naked underneath your cover." "Alone in the Universe," the single, churns in a maelstrom of electric guitar, "He's got his suit, his tie, his drink, his mtv; he's trading his life away, you can't escape, we're all infected now." The melody of "Butterfly" flits by like the zigzag flight of one of these sweet creatures. Canadian reggae rapper Snow cowrote "Joy in Small Places" while Jay Tanna from the Canadian band I Mother Earth joins David on vocals on a musically complex driving track that will have you hitting the repeat button. "A Day In the Life" written by Usher moves like Joshua Tree-era U2. David's vocals are breathy on the slow, beautifully melodic "My Way Out" which builds to crescendo. "Blinded" is an electric track with lyrics submerged, "a circus sideshow but the makeup's shining through." Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" is given quite a different reading, a dream and desire for escape. "I blew it up with everyone who ever knew me," David sings on "Closer." The electric version of "Black Black Heart" raves like an electronic sunspot with vocals submerged beyond recognition, a brilliant contrast to track 3's version. Usher is again brilliant on "Morning Orbit." Why there's not a US release is more than a mystery. This is prime rock from a brilliant artist."

Will be one of your fav albums of all time!!

Dave Bartholomew | Adelaide Australia | 03/10/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I recieved this album from a friend (I live in Australia) and thought i must've died. It is almost impossible to even import any David Usher into the country, but even after having this album for 2-3 years, i still find myself putting it back in the cd player. Would sit it next to my fav new age albums and find it quite a bit next to even Pink Floyds Dark Side Of The Moon. Would recommend this album to anyone, thanks a lot for my listening pleasure..."