Rolling Stone (6/10/99, p.124) - 3 1/2 out of 5 - "...[Orbital] has evolved away from its techno, dance-floor-driven rave roots into digital elegance designed for armchair grooving....The effect is more relaxed, even playful..." Spin (7/99, pp.128,130) - 7 (out of 10) - "...THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE picks up where 1996's IN SIDES left off- stirring soundtrack music in search of a movie....enjoyably old-fashioned....In the high-turnover world of dance culture, Orbital...[craft] tunes that sing in your heart." Entertainment Weekly (7/30/99, p.74) - "...NOWHERE - which has the goods to become this summer's feel-good record - will soon be 'everywhere'." - Rating: B+ Q (1/00, p.85) - Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1999." Muzik (5/99, p.82) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...The corkers do outweigh the duffers. It's an Orbital album, after all..." CMJ (6/14/99, p.26) - "...uphold[s] Orbital's reputation for melodically and texturally complex rhythm symphonies....a beautifully constructed work of piston-pumping drum patterns and playfully intertwining synth lines." Melody Maker (4/3/99, p.37) - 4 1/2 stars (out of 5) - "...Their best yet." Mojo (Publisher) (4/99, p.92) - "...there's a sense that Orbital have rediscovered the luscious melodic sense that pervaded their early work..." NME (Magazine) (4/3/99, p.38) - "...This, if you want, is therapy. As the boundaries of the future and the beyond are slowly mapped and planned, it's the confines of the skull the Hartnoll brothers are delicatly probing here..."

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