Under The Word
Remember me? Hi. Yeah. It's been a while. Over Christmas and January I went on a hunger strike and couldn't afford any music. This month will probably be the same so I've just spent all my bill money on a few CDs and downloads to nip my poverty in the bud. Interesting purchase this week, Idiot Pilot's A Day In The Life Of a Poolshark single. Possibly the best purchase this week, Underworld's Riverun Projects One & Two, LovelyBrokenThing and PizzaForEggs. Two tracks, each containing six or seven songs (which I've subsequently broken down into their composit tracks since, come on, having to listen to seven songs in an hour long chunk each time is no way to live).
Underworld are an amazing band. Ever noticed that? A lot of people think they're all about Lager Lager Lager Lager but they're about Everything Everything Everything Everything. For a dance act who regularly play out raves and started their life with Rez (a song I desperately want to own but own too much other Underworld to even contemplate buying a best of to obtain - hey Underworld, stop re-releasing Born Slippy and re-issue Rez for a change!) they've evolved into, well, to my mind the only really progressive, post- anything act in the trade. Progressive house and deep trance or whatever, Faithless, all those kids they make some epics don't get me wrong and some of them are genuinely awesome tracks. Obviously not so much Faithless these days but the classics on Reverence (because it was guilty of some absolute filler too) are still joys to behold now. Everyone has their hands in the air for Insomnia (except for when they play the new version - who the hell would write new lyrics for an anthem like that? like "slightly rewrite" the lyrics no less).
That's not really consistent enough, though, for what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the absolute presence of vision and confidence of sound to just bathe, utterly utterly drown the listener in a sound. An amorpheous amniotic catacomb of aural imagery. Like Sigur Rós, like Xinlisupreme. To take enough steps away from the mainstream and really stand alone in your vision. Underworld do that. Even having lost Darren Emerson they still retain that level of completeness. These two tracks are right up there. Superb.
Underworld are an amazing band. Ever noticed that? A lot of people think they're all about Lager Lager Lager Lager but they're about Everything Everything Everything Everything. For a dance act who regularly play out raves and started their life with Rez (a song I desperately want to own but own too much other Underworld to even contemplate buying a best of to obtain - hey Underworld, stop re-releasing Born Slippy and re-issue Rez for a change!) they've evolved into, well, to my mind the only really progressive, post- anything act in the trade. Progressive house and deep trance or whatever, Faithless, all those kids they make some epics don't get me wrong and some of them are genuinely awesome tracks. Obviously not so much Faithless these days but the classics on Reverence (because it was guilty of some absolute filler too) are still joys to behold now. Everyone has their hands in the air for Insomnia (except for when they play the new version - who the hell would write new lyrics for an anthem like that? like "slightly rewrite" the lyrics no less).
That's not really consistent enough, though, for what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the absolute presence of vision and confidence of sound to just bathe, utterly utterly drown the listener in a sound. An amorpheous amniotic catacomb of aural imagery. Like Sigur Rós, like Xinlisupreme. To take enough steps away from the mainstream and really stand alone in your vision. Underworld do that. Even having lost Darren Emerson they still retain that level of completeness. These two tracks are right up there. Superb.