It's a shame they keep giving Japan these interesting tracks.
I think it's because CDs are more expensive in Japan, so they give extras to stop them buying cheap imports.
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 March 2016 12:05 (eight years ago) link
Think this is easily the best album they've done since BF
― groovypanda, Thursday, 17 March 2016 19:55 (eight years ago) link
I understand the reason they do it, I just think it's too bad they choose songs that are good to give the japanese market. They should just tack on some old live version of Crocodile so I don't have FOMO.
Also, last night in Berlin they played 8 Ball and Faxed Invitation. Pretty incredible.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 18 March 2016 16:23 (eight years ago) link
Also, last night in Berlin they played 8 Ball and Faxed Invitation
ok if they do this in new york i'll die
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 18 March 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link
"Nylon Strung" reminds me of Orbital's "Never," and the full thing is already my favorite new electronic music album since Wonky in 2012, probably. Shows how much I keep up with this kind of stuff.
― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Saturday, 19 March 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link
i was thinking of it as being similar to wonky the other day!
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 19 March 2016 19:52 (eight years ago) link
I guess I should give this a listen, then!
― // 166,000 W A N K E R S // LOVE (Turrican), Saturday, 19 March 2016 20:10 (eight years ago) link
Wonky is great tbh
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 19 March 2016 20:44 (eight years ago) link
Low Burn <3
― nashwan, Sunday, 20 March 2016 18:37 (eight years ago) link
x-post:
Yeah, I'm still listening to Wonky quite a lot.
― // 166,000 W A N K E R S // LOVE (Turrican), Monday, 21 March 2016 18:17 (eight years ago) link
finally an album of "bruce lee"s
Man I thought this was a joke, but two songs in and this is like listening to someone build a wall.
― Matt DC, Monday, 21 March 2016 19:25 (eight years ago) link
been listening to this nonstop since Friday. can't say where it fits in the UW pantheon - agreed that it's similar to Wonky in terms of quality, but I never really thought UW dropped off a cliff the way Orbital did. but this is really good - think "Low Burn" and "Nylon Strung" are gonna be the two everyone raves about, but I think the first two tracks rule as well, and I even dig "Santiago Quatro" a lot, for a fillerish track that is. as a side note I always had this MP3 attributed to Underworld called "Gypsy Hairdo" - think it was from a mk1 demo tape I got off an FTP server - and I always assumed it was mislabeled, since it's a bouncy flamenco instrumental that sounds nothing like any incarnation of UW. but now I think it may be legit.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 13:44 (eight years ago) link
I've listened to this maybe 6 times today. "Motorhome" is so gorgeous and maybe my favorite, the 90s house organ on "Ova Nova" is such a great touch, and "Low Burn" is of course brilliant
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 20:35 (eight years ago) link
damn this is moving
Rick Smith came up with the title of the album through his father, which was one of the last things he said before he died. Karl Hyde in an interview said that Rick's mother's name is Barbara and said that she was fearful of the future without him and that's when his father said to her that quote that would then become the title for the album.
― nomar, Thursday, 24 March 2016 00:38 (eight years ago) link
this album is certainly better than the last three imo, as much as i do enjoy those ones to varying degrees
― nomar, Thursday, 24 March 2016 17:45 (eight years ago) link
right now If Rah is my favorite (I'm also one of the people that liked Ring Road)
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Thursday, 24 March 2016 18:11 (eight years ago) link
"if rah" rules, i love that huge synth line that emerges halfway through
i also love "ring road"
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 March 2016 18:15 (eight years ago) link
I like Ring Road, but i'm still not loving If Rah. The story in Ring Road drew me in but I can't find anything in If Rah to cling to.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:30 (eight years ago) link
luna luna luna lunaluna luna luna luna
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:44 (eight years ago) link
The moment where "If Rah" blossoms into a huge beam of light is probably my favorite single moment on the album.
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:45 (eight years ago) link
i don't want to know what happens when you say "luna" eight times on ilx
― nomar, Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:51 (eight years ago) link
hey sug
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:52 (eight years ago) link
i need sug
― nomar, Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:53 (eight years ago) link
this is definitely the sort of album you want to hear again right away after it finishes. lately I've been thinking that "Low Burn" may be one of their best tracks full stop, dunno if I've been this obsessed with a UW tune since "Jumbo". or "Parc", maybe.
anyone else hear a lot of the Chemical Brothers in "Motorhome"? structured very similar to the ballads they do every album, uses the "Wonders of the Deep" synth and does the psychedelic flangeout just like the Chems always do (without exploding in the end, for better or worse)
― frogbs, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 13:05 (eight years ago) link
think I'm ready to declare this a top-flight UW disc, especially if you add in "Twenty Three Blue". "Ova Nova" is so damn good, I'm getting chills from it
― frogbs, Monday, 25 April 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
I wish it had been an EP with If Rah and I Exhale being a stand alone single.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 25 April 2016 18:13 (eight years ago) link
Twenty three blue is amazing, should have been part of the album proper
― a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Monday, 25 April 2016 23:49 (eight years ago) link
100% agreed, its definitely one to crank the hell up
― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 02:40 (eight years ago) link
Making their first ever performance on Later this week.
Extended show on tomorrow night with 3 tracks from Underworld.
― groovypanda, Thursday, 5 May 2016 10:59 (eight years ago) link
oo
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 May 2016 14:32 (eight years ago) link
I've been revisiting this album over the past couple of days and "If Rah" is really, really, really satisfying.
― DJP, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 19:56 (eight years ago) link
i love "twenty three blue" but i think i'm cool with it not being on the album
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 20:41 (eight years ago) link
at least i don't really have a sense of where it would fit
"If Rah" recently got the full single / remix treatment, including one from Herbert: https://open.spotify.com/album/4L9dkMglcgAdkup0nQVZK1
― sombrerodetuned (sombrerodetune), Thursday, 2 June 2016 01:28 (eight years ago) link
I really couldn't imagine a radio edit for "If Rah" due to the pace of the build but this works surprisingly well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbphaKMepqY
― DJP, Thursday, 2 June 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link
I love how it just gets into it from the start. The first 30 seconds of that tune loop around in my head a lot.
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 June 2016 17:42 (eight years ago) link
Oh shit, I'm just now listening to this album and I'm properly gobsmacked.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 21 October 2016 23:15 (seven years ago) link
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Sunday, 18 December 2016 21:23 (seven years ago) link
OTM
― ¶ (DJP), Sunday, 18 December 2016 22:45 (seven years ago) link
I really really enjoy the entire record, but 'If Rah' and 'Motorhome' are my favourites, simply because I love how both tracks develop.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Sunday, 18 December 2016 22:58 (seven years ago) link
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― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 19 December 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link
Every Underworld album has at least one song that I find indispensable and will play on endless repeat at the drop of a hat; "If Rah" is that song from this album.
― ¶ (DJP), Monday, 19 December 2016 18:06 (seven years ago) link
Also at one point I had my sons singing the "luna luna luna luna" part almost unprompted.
― ¶ (DJP), Monday, 19 December 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
Hehe, that's awesome!
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 20:27 (seven years ago) link
big thing about "If Rah" is that it just bangs right out of the box, as though the usual slowbuild/intro was just lopped off. good decision IMO.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
and then it builds on top of that bang to become a bangernaut
― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link
I regret almost every single facet of my previous post
just saw this was nominated for a Grammy too. I'm guessing it's going to lose to Jean Michel Jarre but it's cool to see them (finally) get some recognition, it's about as overdue as Aphex Twin's was
― frogbs, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
(and yeah I know, fuck the Grammies)
wait is he saying "shoot the stars, pizza bread" at 0:56?
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 04:54 (seven years ago) link