Orfeas is the eighth solo album by Judge Smith, and his third "songstory"[2] after Curly's Airships (2000) and The Climber (2010).

After meeting his muse Eurydice somewhere between life and death he regains his humility and is allowed to return to the land of the living, on the condition that he does not look back.

[1] A photography session was done in January 2011 to portray George Orfeas, Eurydice and other players in the CD booklet.

[3] Dom Lawson of Prog Magazine in January 2012 called Orfeas "weird, witty and resolutely eccentric.

"[4] Malcolm Dome of Classic Rock Magazine wrote in June 2011 that Smith told the story of Orpheus "with a resonant sympathy yet also a darkly devious humour".