WILLIAM ORBIT
WFO
STRANGE CARGO
Having sashayed back in 2022 with The Painter after eight years, William Orbit seems to have retreated from the spotlight, releasing his latest album solely via Bandcamp. After Beth Orton, Katie Melua and Georgia all featured on The Painter, WFO is wholly instrumental.
If that implies that Orbit could be heading back to his Strange Cargo ambient series, think again. The first half of WFO is a thrilling return to beats, his most uptempo grooves since Bassomatic. Concrete Butterfly borrows back the pulse that Bicep owed to Orbit in the first place, while JD 800 ooo soon builds into a trampolining bounce, a relative rarity from Orbit in melding the piano and strings of his Pieces In A Modern Style works with the dancefloor.