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Orbital To Split This Summer
Veteran dance duo Orbital will call it a career this summer following the release of a new album and a performance at the U.K.'s Glastonbury Festival. "I think we feel that Orbital has run its course," group member Paul Hartnoll writes on the sibling pair's Web site. "We're both pursuing different avenues with our music. And we've been sat, as brothers, in the same room for 15 years now -- and studios are always confined spaces -- I think it's time for a change."
Orbital will release its final album, "The Blue Album," June 21 internationally. A show at London's Brixton Academy will follow on June 25, with the Glastonbury appearance scheduled for two days later.
"It's nice to know that we're finishing, it's not many bands that do that," Paul Hartnoll says. "They tend to just fade away. And it's nice to have our last gig at Glastonbury. It's gonna be a party set, a best of Orbital. We're not gonna sit there and try and promote the new album. I think if we're gonna do a last gig we should do distilled set of all the best stuff we've done. And that's what we're gonna do, play all the stuff that's stuck around for all this time because they are the favourite ones."
"The Blue Album" is tipped to feature guest appearances by former Dead Can Dance vocalist Lisa Gerrard and eccentric sibling act Sparks. It's Orbital's first studio set since 2001's "The Altogether," which debuted at No. 9 on Billboard's Top Electronic Albums chart.