Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Almost Cool | 8.5/10 |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
| Ink Blot | very favourable |
| Melody Maker | very favourable |
| Muzik | |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Select | |
| Stylus | very favourable |
The album was very favourably received by the critics. The leading UK dance music magazines Mixmag and Muzik were enthusiastic, with Mixmag saying that "Orbital are still light-years ahead of the competition" while Muzik stated that "only Orbital could mix'n'match the simple and the complex and turn out something this good. After all these years, they're still ahead of the pack. Way ahead."
Select said "the word already seems too small to encompass what this band is about... On the evidence of In Sides, it's easy to see them going on to make music every bit as moving and lastingly satisfying as the dance records that got them started, and as emblematic of their time as the punk records they listened to before that".
The album spent 12 weeks in the UK charts in 1996, and reached a high of #5 in the week of its release. By late May 2006, over 60,000 copies of the album had been sold. The album was certified gold by the BPI in January 1997 for sales of 100,000 copies in the UK.
| Publication | Country | Accolade | Year | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melody Maker | United Kingdom | "Albums of the Year" | 1996 | 31 |
| NME | United Kingdom | "1996 NME Albums" | 1996 | 3 |
| Mixmag | United Kingdom | "Best of 1996" | 1996 | 3 |
| Muzik | United Kingdom | "Best of 1996" | 1996 | 16 |
The single "The Box" also made NME's list of the best singles of 1996, coming in at number 5.
In Sides was also included in Q magazine's "90 Best albums of the 1990s".
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