(rather big cover art: http://i19.tinypic.com/68a9ijn.jpg )
tour dates: http://www.underworldlive.com/index/live-events.html
press release: http://www.underworldlive.com/index/press/press-releases/mainColumnParagraphs/0/childParagraphs/013/document/070618%20UW%20Announce.zip
― StanM, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 10:30 (5 years ago) Permalink
oi, calm down everyone! :-)
ok, so nobody cares. *mopes*
― StanM, Thursday, 21 June 2007 06:36 (5 years ago) Permalink
No Stan, this is definitely good news. And thank you for showing me the album art. I fucking love it.
― lukas, Thursday, 21 June 2007 06:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
have to be honest, that cover distresses me. obviously its a throwback to the first albums art with the stark black and white, but this feels and looks like someone is in pain, and the deranged scrawls only remind me of stuff my kids do when they are in a bad bad mood.
― mark e, Thursday, 21 June 2007 09:23 (5 years ago) Permalink
It looks promising, yes.
Are we agreed that the last one (1000 days holiday, or some such title) was such a bad once coverartwise? I got it for £3 at fopp eventually. Can't remember owt else about it mind.)
― Mark G, Thursday, 21 June 2007 09:30 (5 years ago) Permalink
bad one coverartwise?
― Mark G, Thursday, 21 June 2007 09:31 (5 years ago) Permalink
oh, a hundred days off, that light bulb cover? yeah, I also only remember the single ("you bring light in") ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXAbJ1FpctI )
― StanM, Thursday, 21 June 2007 09:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
100 days off
I like it. It sounds lush.
I just found out Karl Hyde is 50 this year!
Has anyone heard all this download only stuff they've been doing?
― Jamie T Smith, Thursday, 21 June 2007 09:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
the cover art is pretty boring/throwback to their older stuff. i've never really liked any of their artwork tho.
― blueski, Thursday, 21 June 2007 09:45 (5 years ago) Permalink
i thought the last Underworld album was that ambient soundtrack they did : breaking and entering ? a very mellow laid back minimal affair that i dont think i ever actually got all the way through.
― mark e, Thursday, 21 June 2007 09:46 (5 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, that download stuff is pretty nice & entertaining but ultimately doesn't compare to their studio albums (way too patchy).
― StanM, Thursday, 21 June 2007 09:51 (5 years ago) Permalink
So they're on at the Roundhouse in London in October ...
Hmmmm
I'm going to go. Which of you ageing raver 90s refugees are with me?
― Jamie T Smith, Thursday, 21 June 2007 10:08 (5 years ago) Permalink
New Underworld - "Crocodile" http://www.stereogum.com/archives/new-underworld-crocodile.html
streaming mp3 track
love the track, sounds a bit like New Order technique era
so psychedelic with a vocoder type of voice
― djmartian, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 15:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
It's time Mojo or Uncut put Underworld on the front cover.
― djmartian, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
what, not Keef Richards or Paul Weller?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
No those duffers should be ridiculed
― djmartian, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:12 (5 years ago) Permalink
Karl's a duffer now too!
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:17 (5 years ago) Permalink
i need that intro to be longer
― blueski, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:24 (5 years ago) Permalink
50?! Did he do anything much before Underworld? (I'm guessing he was some sort of legendary underground DJ and I've just revealed my ignorance...)
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
he was making music before you were born, as Freur http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freur
― djmartian, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:28 (5 years ago) Permalink
new Underworld reminds me also of Fluke
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Fluke
― djmartian, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:40 (5 years ago) Permalink
well that's not good really. Fluke were always the poor man's Underworld.
― blueski, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:47 (5 years ago) Permalink
I was about to say, how is THAT praise?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:48 (5 years ago) Permalink
Blueski did you groove to tracks such as electric guitar and Slid in the 1990s? A: no, you were probably too young in 1993!
― djmartian, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
Ha ha my intro to Fluke was 'Groovy Feeling' which I saw on MTV at the time and is nice musically (and similar to Underworld's own 'Eclipse' - or 'Minneapolis' can't remember which one now, under their Lemon Interrupt guise) but they had even lamer lyrics than Hyde usually. I liked the Bjork remix a lot and a few of the singles after that but despite having similar concept and approach to Underworld they never seemed to make anything with quite the same power or depth. But perhaps I will listen to more of their '91-'93 stuff again, to be sure.
― blueski, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:23 (5 years ago) Permalink
Crocodile's nice, but is it a single?
― StanM, Monday, 13 August 2007 08:10 (5 years ago) Permalink
anyone going to the boston show? dan perry? i am coming in from chicago!
― t0dd swiss, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 00:24 (5 years ago) Permalink
For a first single, this song sure ain't no club banger. Very disappointing.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 04:05 (5 years ago) Permalink
If this song becomes a hit, I'll eat my hat.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 04:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
I might go!
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 04:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
I got a promo of this the other day. Should I listen to it?
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 09:28 (5 years ago) Permalink
Nah, pour honey on it and make it into a waffle. Only proper way to treat Underworld.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 09:37 (5 years ago) Permalink
You can call it Oblivion with Bells (Flour and Honey Mix).
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 09:38 (5 years ago) Permalink
This is actually alright, you know?
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 08:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
With or without honey?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 09:08 (5 years ago) Permalink
Sans, at the moment.
Having said that, track five is a proper talky nonsense one, and Hyde sounds like Mike Skinner's dad. This is not a compliment.
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 09:12 (5 years ago) Permalink
"Crocodile" video http://www.underworldlive.com/home/crocodile.html
"Crocodile" - Alligator version video http://www.underworldlive.com/home/alligator.html
― turkey, Sunday, 23 September 2007 23:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
This thing leaked yet?
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 19:55 (5 years ago) Permalink
love it
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 20:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
Alfie is a true classic.
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 20:12 (5 years ago) Permalink
caught the first night of their tour in SF and was pretty disappointed. definitely had major technical problems for 20+ minutes that practically ground the show to a halt even though they kept playing weird instrumental tunes with little direction. when they hits finally came in i felt it was too much too soon and found it hard to summon excitement. i think it's the 6th time i'd seen them, but the first since 2001 (i think). so much has changed. oakenfold opened, is that a bad sign?
― BATTAGS, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 21:32 (5 years ago) Permalink
doesn't seem odd to me, even if it does seem vaguely repellant for other reasons
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 21:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
Saw them in LA and it was probably the best concert I've ever seen in this city. LA people are not normally that friendly to each other.
― lukas, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 21:44 (5 years ago) Permalink
that show was awesome. oakenfold was so, so bad though.
― omar little, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 22:40 (5 years ago) Permalink
what's not to like about giant visuals of a pretty girl shaking water off her body in slow motion?
oh right, the music.
― lukas, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 22:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
what cave does a DJ live in that he'd spin a trance remix of the James Bond theme?
― omar little, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 22:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
― StanM, Friday, 28 September 2007 08:10 (5 years ago) Permalink
It's nice but mellow but nice.
― StanM, Friday, 28 September 2007 14:13 (5 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I'm gonna be needing that.
:)
― roxymuzak, Friday, 28 September 2007 17:08 (5 years ago) Permalink
Nice but mellow but nice sounds about right - "Beautiful Burnout" is sounding great. [n.b. I hate the culture of commenting on albums while listening to them for the 1st time, so I'll try to make that the last thing I say about this for a while!]
― toby, Friday, 28 September 2007 17:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
I'm in hell.
― roxymuzak, Friday, 28 September 2007 17:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
ILX works!
― roxymuzak, Friday, 28 September 2007 21:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
really loving this album. just what i needed to start my autumn off right!
― cutty, Monday, 1 October 2007 15:46 (5 years ago) Permalink
"Ring Road" is the best thing I've heard from them in years.
― turkey, Monday, 1 October 2007 22:19 (5 years ago) Permalink
Ha, that's the only track I've had to un-check in my Itunes so I don't ever have to hear it again. Kinda like the "Salmon Dance" on the new Chemicals album.
― Jena, Monday, 1 October 2007 22:28 (5 years ago) Permalink
Japan bonus track <3
― StanM, Friday, 5 October 2007 06:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
<3
― roxymuzak, Friday, 5 October 2007 07:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
aw
― omar little, Friday, 5 October 2007 07:16 (5 years ago) Permalink
The only problem I have with this album (it's not a big problem though) : I keep expecting The Edge to start the intro to Where The Streets Have No Name during track 4. :-/
― StanM, Saturday, 6 October 2007 15:31 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Billy Dods, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 11:54 (5 years ago) Permalink
only heard Crocodile (like) and Boy Boy Boy (dislike) so far.
― blueski, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 12:11 (5 years ago) Permalink
The "Boy Boy Boy" tracks def outnumber the "Crocodile" ones on the album.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 9 October 2007 12:31 (5 years ago) Permalink
"Best Mamgu Ever" is a beautiful.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:10 (5 years ago) Permalink
OTM X 1000
― Davey D, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:12 (5 years ago) Permalink
I went jogging to this whole album a couple of days ago and it was not very motivating, in a bad way.
― Davey D, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:13 (5 years ago) Permalink
i love love love beautiful burnout. classic underworld. i really CANNOT stand the track where he raps. i mean, really? who green lighted the rapping? worst cadence ever you are british.
― cutty, Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:22 (5 years ago) Permalink
i know that this may seem like a bad thing... but this album reminds me of like 1997. I love this album so far, except for ring road. Definitely a better album than 100 days off and i think that i prefer it to beaucoup fish as well.
beautiful burnout is definitely classic underworld and i am very glad that i saw them in boston.
― t0dd swiss, Thursday, 11 October 2007 23:55 (5 years ago) Permalink
1997 OTM
― cutty, Saturday, 13 October 2007 13:53 (5 years ago) Permalink
Wow, a lot of hate for Ring Road. I have to admit I never really thought of what Karl was doing on it as rapping, but it clearly is. I guess it sounds to me like the older (and more beautiful) brother to Beaucoup Fish's "Bruce Lee." And I may be wrong, but I think I recall people having similar problems with that track upon it's release.
Dunno, but I love them both. The rest of the album is good, but seems a bit of a deliberate attempt at recreating the feel of Dubnobass (Beautiful Burnout aside), while I'm more a "Kittens"/"Pearl's Girl" Underworld fan.
― turkey, Saturday, 13 October 2007 14:47 (5 years ago) Permalink
i don't mind the second half of ring road but that opening is horrendous
― cutty, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
how bout that stylus review
― roxymuzak, Sunday, 14 October 2007 02:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
I don't really disagree with anything in the Stylus review, except for the "not particularly interesting" part, and the rating.
The group made a transition on "100 Days" that'll lose some people. Their sound is a lot smoother now, and they seem to have hit a comfortable groove. Sounds like a recipe for disaster, but it works. If only U2 had grown old this gracefully.
(I actually bought this! In a store!)
― lukas, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 22:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
is there any relevance/context for that press shot above (karl in wedding dress)?
― djh, Thursday, 29 November 2007 22:30 (5 years ago) Permalink
I guess (Ring Road) sounds to me like the older (and more beautiful) brother to Beaucoup Fish's "Bruce Lee."
Seriously - like half as annoying and twice as good. Which makes it ... twenty-one, carry the five ... about a billion times better.
― lukas, Thursday, 29 November 2007 22:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
re: faxed invitation
Underworld are unique among electronic musicians, and IMO all musicians right now, in being able to convincingly argue for the 21st century as a wonderful place to be.
Most of what I listen to has synths and drum machines, and I love it for inspiring a kind of fierce joy, but it's almost always linked to an alternate reality. It might be, like in Burial, a dark reflection of our own, but it's definitely _other_. This is what originally got me into Aphex Twin - freakish imaginative power that let me escape into a different world.
Underworld is just as escapist, we're looking through a rose-colored lens here ... but, especially in *recent* Underworld, art here is being employed to show you a different view of our own world. And it's a global, social reality that Underworld chooses to celebrate. I've been frustrated and frightened by the way even joyful art, recently, seems to be so doggedly personal - these are small joys that we're celebrating. Underworld celebrate being citizens of the world the way Whitman sang America.
It's not a new idea, but who else is doing it well?
― ok star grumbles (lukas), Thursday, 15 October 2009 15:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
Basically, they're doing what U2 think they're doing.
― ok star grumbles (lukas), Thursday, 15 October 2009 15:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
Underworld are deep into their most creative period ever. I'm in love with their recent work. Webcasts, artjams, live shows, social networking. It's a great time to be an Underworld fan now that the Lager, Lager, Lager heads have moved on. Between Stars and Strumpet are great indicators of their new direction. Karl is doing a poetry thing with Eno and one of the Eno/Hyde collaborations will probably turn up on the forthcoming K7 DJ compilation series Underworld is starting. Big things ahead in 2010.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 15 October 2009 15:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
I've really come around on this album lately. First four tracks are so incredibly ace and I'm really starting to like the last 15 minutes of it too. "Best Mamgu Ever" is such a great groove. Let's face it, what other electronic dudes would put out an album like this? "Boy, Boy, Boy" recalls their Underneath the Radar days!
― frogbs, Friday, 12 October 2012 13:55 (7 months ago) Permalink