It has been a while since we've seen a new record from Orange Goblin, with the excellent The Wolf Bites Back released back in 2018. Even with the covid pandemic, six years seems like a lost of lost time, so when Science, Not Fiction was released this year, I found myself asking if I really needed it.
I can't really blame my lack of interest in a new Orange Goblin record on the years since their last album. This blog is a documentation of my listening habits, and it is easy to see that I've been disconnected from new releases, and generally just wanting new shit in my ears. This kind of attitude has blinded me a bit and I didn't really give Science, Not Fiction a fair shake when I first heard it over the summer. I thought it was okay, but really I just wanted to listen to The Cure and Karate, so therefore I wasn't too fussed about buying the record. Closing in on the end of the year, and having my love of new music sparked by bands like The Obsessed, Fu Manchu and Grand Magus, I decided to revisit it and with this right mindset, suddenly, I'm loving it.
Orange Goblin play that rough kind of stoner metal, and from album to album you know what to expect from them. Nothing really different here, but this is just giving me what I want right now.
Clear colored vinyl, and the record has a bonus track that surprisingly isn't available through streaming. If you want to hear, you've got to get the physical format.
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