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With Andrew Weatherall gone and the KLF occupied with conceptual art, the Orb are the last act standing from the wonderful minute in British music when house, reggae, and ambient hit a mischievous funny bone. Abolition of the Royal Familia, the Orb's brand-new studio album, is no match for, or other landmarks of the post-acid-house period.

After the rambling of 2018's No Sounds Run out Bounds and the horizontal ambience of 2016's COW/ Chill Out, World!, the opening half of Abolition of the Royal Familia is a return to the pop-house Orb of "Toxygene" or "Perpetual Dawn," where abstraction and atmosphere cede location to beats and hooks.

"Hawk Kings (Oseberg Buddhas Buttonhole)" is much more rambunctious, a pumping house gem that includes spinal-stretching string rushes and wistful robotic chatter in tribute to Orb fan Stephen Hawking. House isn't the only component to come clattering to the fore on Abolition of the Royal Familia: At times, the album feels like the Orb are peeling back the layers to reveal their motivations.
However tracks like "Shape Shifters (In Two Parts) [Coffee & Ghost Train Mix] and "Say Cheese (Siberian Tiger Cookie Mix)" are significantly earthbound, the work of dialed-in humans on real instruments rather than smoked-out alien travelers. On songs like these, the Orb do not feel so far gotten rid of from similarly enduring musical travellers the Grateful Dead, albeit a Dead raised on Scientist LPs and Monty Python specials, instead of Owsley and the blues.

For a band whose finest momentsparticularly their debut album, Adventures Beyond the Ultraworldare beautifully otherworldly, this trip into the human realm can feel a little too near to truth. But Research It Here -spiritedness of Abolition of the Royal Familia, with preposterous samples stacked on top of each other in happily arranged collages, separates the Orb from their more po-faced peers while offering a through line to their gag-packed profession.