Morning Orbit by David Usher

Morning Orbit, David Usher's second solo album, came out on EMI on July 31, 2001, a detour from his day job fronting Moist and a follow-up to Little Songs. It's a moody, glossy blend of pop rock and alternative, hushed and brooding in one moment, soaring the next, with Usher's voice floating over it all like someone half-awake at dawn.

"Alone in the Universe" is the centerpiece, a spacey, yearning song that fits the title's cosmic drift. Elsewhere, Canadian rapper Snow drops in on "Joy in Small Places", and Usher tries his hand at Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car". Canada bought in: it went platinum by April 2002 and won the Juno Award for Pop Album of the Year that same year. Hallucinations came next.

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