Gravity is the debut album by independent Synthwave artist ØRBITA, and in this review we’re going to show you how it’s packed full of emotional, cinematic music and retro-futuristic electronic sound design that is bound to have you hooked on its sounds from the moment you press play on the first track.
🔊 Cinematic Storytelling and Emotional Layers in ØRBITA’s Synthwave Album
From the opening moments of Gravity, ØRBITA establishes a world that feels both intimate and vast, using perfectly sculpted arrangements and stunning sound design to create a story and a narrative without words. Dominated by shimmering synths, pulsating basslines and sweeping melodies, the album is cinematic and immersive, a distinctive and unique quality that is arguably not easy to achieve with instrumental music. Elsewhere, songs like the opener Arrival and midpoint highlight Space Runner pulse with kinetic energy, their driving rhythms evoking imagery of night drives through city landscapes lit by bright neon signs. Coupled with slower tracks like Contact and Dusk, the result is an album that is both musically and emotionally rich.
💿 From Nostalgia to Innovation: ØRBITA’s Gravity Sets a New Tone
If you take anything from this review of the new ØRBITA album Gravity, let it be that this is a record which has the potential to help push the Synthwave genre from its more familiar tropes (analog warmth, reverb-drenched drums, and sparkling arpeggios) to something more cinematic and emotional. The retro-futuristic electronic sound design on the album is particularly impressive, blending human warmth with digital precision to make ØRBITA’s Gravity a record that really tells a story. Indeed, by the time you reach the glistening penultimate track Rubicon, or the album’s closing moment Home, we have no doubt that you will already be trying to find more emotional, cinematic Synthwave music that captures the concept of journeying to another planet as well as this album by ØRBITA does.
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