VELATINE 🇦🇺 Australia Playing With The Orbits Review / Radio Details Review by: Gordon Lawrence Taylor Voice In The Void Infectious Unease Radio / Subterranean Zone Radio

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VELATINE 🇦🇺 Australia

Playing With The Orbits

Review / Radio Details

Review by: Gordon Lawrence Taylor
Voice In The Void
Infectious Unease Radio / Subterranean Zone Radio

Website:
https://infectiousuneaseradio.com

Band: VELATINE
Country: 🇦🇺 Australia
City: Melbourne, Australia
Members: Loki Lockwood / Holly Purnell
Track: Playing With The Orbits
Release: Out now — released 02/06/26
Sound / Atmosphere: Dark cinematic electronic music with a wounded pop heart, nocturnal atmosphere, industrial shadows, emotional storytelling, and a deep human pulse.
Dedication: In memory of Bianca Devins 🥀

 

VELATINE 🇦🇺 Australia are not simply working inside a genre — they are building a world.

Playing With The Orbits is a striking and emotionally heavy release from the Melbourne underground, created by the partnership of Loki Lockwood and Holly Purnell. It is a song that refuses to be reduced to a simple label. On the surface, it carries melody, movement, electronic brightness, and an almost immediate pop-shaped structure. But underneath that brightness is something far darker: grief, memory, danger, exposure, and the terrible afterlife of a tragedy that should never be treated lightly.

This is music made for the night, for the wounded, for those who understand that beauty and horror can sometimes breathe in the same room.

VELATINE’s own world is visual, shadowed, theatrical, and deeply human. The imagery around Playing With The Orbits is powerful: black space, red lettering, cemetery-like atmosphere, angelic stone, ghostly presence, skulls, heavy eyes, ruins, smoke, and darkness. But none of it feels empty or decorative. The visual identity supports the emotional weight of the song. It places the listener inside a world where glamour and grief sit side by side.

The track itself is not loud in the obvious way. Its strength comes from contrast. There is brightness in the electronic movement, but that brightness never feels safe. It feels haunted. It moves with a pulse, but the heart behind it is damaged. The song has the shape of something accessible, but the spirit of something much deeper and more painful.

Holly Purnell’s vocal presence is central to the track. Her delivery gives the song its emotional face. It does not need to scream to carry darkness. It works through restraint, atmosphere, and a sense of vulnerability. The voice becomes less like a performance and more like a presence moving through shadow, carrying the story without exploiting it.

Loki Lockwood’s writing gives the song its deeper architecture. The song was created in memory of Bianca Devins, and that context changes the way the listener receives everything. What could first appear to be a dark electronic single becomes something more serious: a memorial, a warning, and a meditation on being watched, exposed, misunderstood, and consumed by a world that often turns real pain into spectacle.

That is where Playing With The Orbits becomes important. It is not simply a song about darkness. It is a song that understands darkness. There is a difference.

VELATINE also stand out because of their independent spirit. Their approach feels personal, handmade, and emotionally driven. They are not trying to chase a category or follow a safe underground formula. They are allowing each song to find its own shape. That freedom gives Playing With The Orbits its unusual power. It can sound bright, but still feel tragic. It can move like a single, but still carry the weight of a memorial. It can be beautiful, but never comfortable.

This is the kind of music that reminds us why the darker underground still matters. It gives space to subjects that mainstream music often avoids. It allows sorrow to be melodic. It allows memory to become sound. It allows tragedy to be treated with respect rather than spectacle.

VELATINE 🇦🇺 Australia have created something that sits between light and ruin. Playing With The Orbits is cinematic, emotional, shadowed, and deeply human. It is not music made for a category. It is music made from feeling, memory, and the need to give voice to something that still hurts.

This is a strong release from a band clearly entering a powerful creative period.

Final Words

Playing With The Orbits is a dark, beautiful, and unsettling piece of modern underground music from VELATINE 🇦🇺 Australia.

It carries melody, image, atmosphere, and sorrow. It is accessible enough to draw the listener in, but serious enough to leave something behind after the song ends.

VELATINE are a band worth watching closely.

They are not just making songs.

They are building a shadowed world of sound, memory, beauty, and emotional truth.

Official Links

Spotify — Playing With The Orbits
https://open.spotify.com/track/6XX3lYN94ItERpKwkLSgab?si=451934edd7094e0e

YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@velatine

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/velatineinc/

Bandcamp — Playing With The Orbits
https://velatine.bandcamp.com/album/playing-with-the-orbits

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/VelatineInc

Official Website / Store
https://velatine.com

Download All Assets / EPK Assets
https://s.disco.ac/ymkyljffxasd

YouTube Video — Playing With The Orbits
https://youtu.be/dYUugOAXOJk

Beacons / All Links
https://beacons.ai/velatine