NME review

[Cadevil]

NME review (http://www.nme.com/reviews/underworld/9086)

From lager, lager, lager to good red wine.

8 out of 10 from the pop review gang

[Flywaver]

Pretty sure that Q magazine gave it three out of five stars in a small review. But what do they know! ;)

[big screen satellite]

yesterday's copy of The Times also gave it three out of 5 singling out Ring Road (my fav!) and Crocodile as the best two tracks...

[Flywaver]

I am beginning to take in Ring Road and Boy Boy Boy. Yes i am a U2 fan and at least Larry Mullen chipped in as the Mofo remix never happened!?
Or it did? It's like a Black Project. The two biggest U bands blending.

[stimpee]

Underworld

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Oblivion With Bells

Underworld were always the coolest of the '90s triumvirate of dance music for indie people (see also: Chemical Bros, Prodigy), as their tunes actually sounded better in clubs and they only made records when they needed to. So their first in five years feels like an event, even if relevance has long since departed. 'Oblivion With Bells' is less the comedown than the sound of the party still going 10 years on, dancers so monged that they're still flailing about, and comes as further proof that the limbs-aloft euphoria departed with Darren Emerson. Lead single 'Crocodile' does the low-slung techno thing they patented, and Karl Hyde's vocals make the woozy melancholy of 'Boy Boy Boy' and the artsy 'Ring Road' the most impressive tracks here. Instead of "lager, lager", it seems they want some good red wine and a pile of ketamine, and are none the worse for it.

Daniel Martin

[crank]

Kaarl addresssed the UBands getting together and working on a track. (mofo i believe) They did indeed work together but u2 never saw fit to release the work... sod it all.

[big screen satellite]

the times review post here: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article2623255.ece