Title: The Orchid Days
Artiste: L'Orange
Genre: Hip-hop
Track 1 (Love) Sort of new-age vocal mixed with soul? Nice. Reminds me of that song that used to close Radio Luxembourg transmissions: “Go placidly among the noise and haste” etc.
Track 2 (Love) Crackling record over spoken samples with a nice beat. Different but I like it
Track 3 (Love) Like the piano and the guitar, the female vocal, very soothing. Smooth guitar
a la Clapton at his best.
Track 4 (Love) More kind of of the same; this reminds me of the sort of thing James Blake was doing, but much easier on the ear.
Track 5(Love) Oh man! The combination of a slow rap with trumpets here is excellent.
Track 6 (Love) This is just beautiful, even if it is a little annoying the way it keeps stopping and starting; I'm kind of getting used to that now.
Track 7 (Love) Another great little track. Did they slip in some jazz there while I wasn't looking? Yeah, but I still like it.
Track 8 (Love) This is more like seventies/eighties soul, very smooth
Track 9 (Love) Another great mix of kind of honky-tonk piano and rap with an almost forties female vocal over it.
Track 10 (Love) More forties-style jazz/big band with interesting samples running across it
Track 11 (Love) Really like the almost-but-not-quite acapella vocal here
Track 12 (Love) Like this one too; little repetitive, but I can't honestly hate it
Track 13 (Love) One thing I really like about this album is the rapping, when it's there, is, how can I put this? Relaxed. It's more low-key, not in your face the way some bands tend to be. Almost like reggae and rap mixed, which is odd as they're two of my least favourite genres.
Track 14 (Love) I like the orchestration in this track, unless it's keys, in which case it's done really well.
Track 15 (Love) Is that trumpet or someone singing? Either way it's supremely cool.
Track 16 (Love) More forties singing with a great beat behind it
Track 17 (Love) Pretty much the same
Track 18 (Love) Great spoken vocal, kind of reminds me of Rod Serling, then the rap comes in perfectly.
Track 19 (Love) Great track wih a great melody, almost progressive in its way.
End result: A real surprise; not quite sure if this would qualify as pure hip-hop, though Frown said it was a little different/unique. He's certainly right there.
So, Love or Hate? That's
Love, for sure.
Chances of a full review: 4/10