Released 23 August 1994 Length 75:04 | Recorded 1993-1994 Release date 4 August 1994 | |
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Genres Electronica, Electronic dance music, Intelligent dance music Similar Orbital albums, Ambient music albums | ||
Snivilisation is the third album and the first named album by Orbital. It was released in 1994. The album reached #4 and spent 4 weeks in the UK albums chart in 1994. By April 1996 it had sold 80,000 copies in the UK..
Contents
Orbital forever
Background
The band released the album at the time of the launch of the Criminal Justice Act, the legislation that gave British Police greater legal powers to break up unlicensed raves that gave Orbital its name. The Are We Here? single featured the track "Are We Here? (Criminal Justice Bill?)", four minutes of complete silence.
"Philosophy By Numbers" samples Sidney Stratton chemistry experiment from the film The Man in the White Suit.
"Are We Here?" samples a part of "Man At C&A" by The Specials. Track's vocals by Alison Goldfrapp, as on "Sad But True". "Are We Here?" is also on Work 1989-2002.
The album was included in Q magazine's "The 25 Best Dance Albums Ever" in October 1997. It also made Q's end-of-year top 10 best albums list in 1994. It is also featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Songs
1Forever7:58
2I Wish I Had Duck Feet4:07
3Sad But True7:49