Universal
2003
Orbitals
About This Album
Orbitals is the debut album from Salt Lake City's Acroma. Mixing the heavy grandeur of Tool with Live's soul-searching pop and gluing it all together with a dulling, post-grunge lacquer, Acroma has been primed to make waves in a heavy alternative scene that finds itself in flux.

Led by the soaring vocals of Jeremy Stanley, Acroma also includes guitarist Brian Christensen, bassist Tom Collins, and drummer Joshua Zirbel. Originally known as No Release, the Acroma name emerged somewhere between the band's signing with Universal (on the strength of a three-song demo and influential word-of-mouth) and the arrival of Orbitals. Produced and mixed by Sylvia Massey Shivy (Tool), Acroma owes a serious debt to that band, especially on "Don't Think Just Move" and "Orbitals," and recalls the Tool side project A Perfect Circle on ("Wash Away [Some Desert Night].") While Stanley emotes, the band lays down a mid-tempo groove heavy on acoustic/electric guitar dynamics; busy, splash-flavored percussion; and a liberal dose of studio trickery that adds vocal programming, spacy sound effects, and subtle synthesizer washes. While Acroma is as obvious in its influences as many heavy alternative groups of the past few years, its sound aims for grandiosity over bombast, which might signal a shift in a genre that's in dire need of something fresh.
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