Underworld - A Hundred Days Off
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Artist: UnderworldEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-09-24
Music Label: V2 North America
Soundtracks:
- Momove
- Two Months Off
- Twist
- Sola Sistim
- Little Speaker
- Trim
- Ess Gee
- Dinosaur Adventure 3d
- Ballet Lane
- Luetin
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Free Music Review: *pop*
Hit: 3 Stars
A surprised looking monochrome lightbulb headed man. While that may be typical of the symbolism they layer into their music, unfortunately it mostly works against them here. My guess is that Hyde and uh... Smith took 100 days off of their dayjobs to make this album. I was quite psyched about it, remembering fun dancy days circa Beaucoup Fish, a great live show... etc. For better or worse, Underworld introduced me to `the Rave,' which I have many fond memories of. But, by 2002, the party was pretty much over.
What's better about this album: well, the instrumentation seems very complicated in places, although not necessarily melodious. Although, in other places, it is melodious. Karl Hyde's vocals are as surreal as ever, although that effect isn't put to much use in very many places. Unfortunately, their ahem, pop sensibilites seem to have gone out the door with emerson, although you wouldn't know it from his Mix CD. Also... I dunno, several of the songs seem rather mean-spirited. Maybe they're bitter about their waning fame. Overall, it's about half the album the previous three are, although it's occasionally better. But not often.
A Hundred Days Off Poster
Unlike the Chemical Brothers--their longstanding U.K. brothers in electronica--Underworld have been allowed to grow (relatively) old without being accused of stagnating. A Hundred Days Off, Underworld's first studio release since the departure of member Darren Emerson, demonstrates why. An ecstatic headrush of percolating beats, swirling synth, and shape-shifting melodies, A Hundred Days Off drags everything from Delta blues to space-age pop onto the dance floor. Because the pair takes their cues in part from the real world, filtering each idea through the prism of a rave record, we get wonky faux church bells chiming in one especially frenzied passage of the nine-minute epic "Two Months Off." Elsewhere, as on the curiously named "Trim," straightforward vocal phrasings are set against (what might be) twangy, scotch-soaked guitar while a static drum beat clicks in the distance. On the towering centerpiece track, "Dinosaur Adventure 3D," a vicious cymbal guts an otherwise unassuming house track, albeit one built on an increasingly complex (and speedy) palette of sounds, before a tribal vocal goosesteps over top. Clubby, dubby, and positively smokin'. --Kim HughesDance & DJ Music CDs
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