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With Andrew Weatherall gone and the KLF inhabited with conceptual art, the Orb are the last act standing from the wonderful moment in British music when home, reggae, and ambient clashed with a naughty funny bone. Abolition of the Royal Familia, the Orb's brand-new studio album, is no match for, or other landmarks of the post-acid-house era.

After the rambling of 2018's No Sounds Are Out of Bounds and the horizontal ambience of 2016's COW/ Chill Out, World!,  Read More Here  opening half of Abolition of the Royal Familia is a return to the pop-house Orb of "Toxygene" or "Continuous Dawn," where abstraction and atmosphere cede place to beats and hooks.

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"Hawk Kings (Oseberg Buddhas Buttonhole)" is much more rambunctious, a pumping home gem that integrates spinal-stretching string hurries and wistful robotic chatter in homage to Orb fan Stephen Hawking. Home isn't the only aspect to come clattering to the fore on Abolition of the Royal Familia: Sometimes, the album feels like the Orb are peeling back the layers to reveal their inspirations.

But tracks like "Forming Shifters (In Two Parts) [Coffee & Ghost Train Mix] and "Say Cheese (Siberian Tiger Cookie Mix)" are notably earthbound, the work of dialed-in humans on actual instruments instead of smoked-out alien adventurers. On songs like these, the Orb do not feel so far eliminated from similarly sustaining musical tourists the Grateful Dead, albeit a Dead brought up on Researcher LPs and Monty Python specials, instead of Owsley and the blues.

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For a band whose best momentsparticularly their debut album, Adventures Beyond the Ultraworldare gorgeously otherworldly, this trip into the human world can feel a little too close to truth. But the free-spiritedness of Abolition of the Royal Familia, with outrageous samples stacked on top of each other in gleefully set up collages, separates the Orb from their more po-faced peers while offering a through line to their gag-packed profession.