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Five Miles Out
Rock · 1982 · 3 tracks

Five Miles Out

Mike Oldfield

A high-altitude blend of sprawling 20-minute prog epics and early 80s synth-pop. Dense, adventurous, and occasionally stormy.

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It's like a 20-minute guitar symphony that somehow ends up in a 1980s cockpit during a thunderstorm.

An adventurous and occasionally harrowing journey through high-altitude atmospheres and digital landscapes.

Five Miles Out · vs · Mike Oldfield
Travel Journey+3.1σ

The writing leans far further into travel journey than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 3 Tracks
01
Taurus II
24:43
03
Orabidoo
13:03
04
Mount Teidi
4:10
Moments Worth Waiting For
The sudden, jarring transition from pastoral acoustic guitars to a driving, vocoder-led rock anthem in the title track.
The way the uilleann pipes pierce through the dense Fairlight synth textures halfway through the Taurus II epic.
The eerie, repetitive vocal chanting at the end of Orabidoo that dissolves into a delicate, toy-like melody.
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