Search - Orbital :: Platinum Collection: Halcyon

Another, less satisfactory compilation

splitendsjustifythemeans | virginia beach | 10/24/2005

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Not that far removed from their last best-of, their American label decided to release another package. The problem with this one is that, rather than picking hits, seems to have grabbed a bunch of album tracks at random, and sprinkled a few hits among them. True, this has Fahrenheit 303 - previously only available on the UK version of the first album - but if you were looking for this track, why not just get the UK version of the first album to start with? It has several other hard-to-get tracks. Frenetic and Halcyon appear on the other greatest hits album, so that's not really a selling point for this one either. Yes, all the songs here are good (it's Orbital after all), but this is a blatant cash-in, and not even a good one. Don't blame Orbital for this one; it wasn't their fault."

Terrible selection

Nikolaus O. Reed | Anytown, USA | 11/01/2005

(1 out of 5 stars)

"I thought that their Work collection was bad...but honestly it's much better than this. This one features the same sloppy edits as the former release, but at least that one had a good track selection. This release misses A LOT. I'd recommend instead just buying one of their albums from their good period, such as Orbital 2, Snivilisation, or In Sides."