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Orbital announce new album Other and 2027 UK/EU tour dates
Orbital have announced their eleventh album, Other, and shared new single "Mother, Maiden & Crone" featuring Maxine Peake.
Other follows Orbital's 2023 album Optical Delusion, with "Mother, Maiden & Crone" being their first new release in three years. The track — which first premiered on BBC 6Music with Lauren Laverne — draws on influences from witchcraft and folklore, featuring vocals from English actor Maxine Peake.
Other explores themes of otherness, including neurodiversity, identity, outsiders and the freedom to exist beyond society's prescribed categories. The songs course through gothic folk, drum & bass, punk and ambient music alongside their trademark electronic sounds, leading the album to be described as some of the duo's most ambitious work yet.
Alongside the announcement, they have also revealed details of a 2027 tour. The tour begins in Dublin on 8 April, continuing through Limerick (9 April), Belfast (10 April), Northampton (13 April), Liverpool (14 April), Glasgow (15 April), Nottingham (16 April), Manchester (17 April), Cardiff (20 April), Frome (21 April), Birmingham (22 April), Bournemouth (23 April), London (24 April), Amsterdam (29 April), Paris (30 April), Brussels (1 May), Berlin (3 May), and Copenhagen (4 May).
Other is released on 19 March 2027 via London Records
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