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Metacritic	72/100
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The A.V. Club	C+
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NOW Magazine
Pitchfork Media	7.0/10
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Q
Slant Magazine
Spin	5/10
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URB

Metallic Spheres is the tenth studio album released by ambient techno group The Orb in October 2010 and features Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and Killing Joke bassist Youth. The album spent 3 weeks on the UK charts, peaking at number 12.

All tracks written by David Gilmour, Alex Paterson, and Youth, except:

The album was produced by Youth and recorded in June, 2009 at "The Dreaming Cave", in Wandsworth. Engineering was done by Tim Bran (of Dreadzone) and David Nock. Mixing was done by Youth, with mix engineering from Bran, Nock and Michael Rendall at "The Study" in 2010. Mastering was done by Andy Baldwin at Metropolis Studios in London. A headphone version was released as the second disc of the deluxe 2-CD edition, with sound design by Mike Brady, recording by Mike Brady, David Nock and Michael Rendall, and mixing by Youth.

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