The Orion Experience "Cosmicandy"

If you’d like a fun album, you couldn’t do better than The Orion Experience. It starts off with a bouncy dance pop song “The Queen of White Lies” that mines a bit of the neo disco trend made popular by Mika and Scissor Sisters. It’s also followed by the Reggae-beat tune “Obsessed With You” and I thought this dance-styled pop would continue, but slowly the album begins to transform. At the midpoint the power pop begins to show itself, the tune “Adrianne” is a great little gem with hand claps and vocals from both Orion Simprini and Linda Horwatt that makes this track shine like a long lost B-52’s single. And the entire album starts to get better. The band sounds tighter and the melodies shine right through. “There’s no Love in Februray” and “Your New Boyfriend” are great songs comparable to Fountains of Wayne-styled pop. “We are the Ones” is a classic anthem for the younger generation and it ends off with the amazing “Blood & Money” – a great rant type of song that owes alot to Dire Strait’s “Industrial Disease.” Although the more commercial dance tracks on the albums first half are good, the songs on the second half are worth the purchase and shouldn’t be missed.

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