Re: Strawberry Hotel - new album out 25th Oct
 

I rarely hear about releases ahead of time, unless I have their insta added. Most of the time I'm pleasantly surprised by the custom RYM release calendar, which only goes ahead by a month or so. very "well how about that". It's kind of nice even if it makes me feel old. Music doesn't lead me by the nose like it used to. These are all artists, shifting in their own way, and you hope for an alignment. There isn't the absolutely toxic hoovering of material and aesthetics like it used to be.

Re: Strawberry Hotel - new album out 25th Oct
 

Yeah, as mentioned, traditional web forums have been largely supplanted by social media and other outlets. But I can add some numbers to it. In the run-up to Barking, we were averaging about 80-100 (logged-in) users visiting the forums per day. For Barbara Barbara, it was about 30-50. For Drift, on each weekly release date (Thursday), we'd get about 40 users. It picked up to about 50 users when the whole Series 1 release date arrived. For Strawberry Hotel, so far, it was about 40 users on the announcement day, and about 25 users per day since then.

That said, I think part of the problem is that there just isn't much to discuss about the album yet. Even on Reddit and the socials and Discord, there just isn't much to discuss yet, after the initial comments about the artwork and tracklisting and such. We've already heard and discussed the songs that have been released so far over the past year.

Re: Strawberry Hotel - new album out 25th Oct
 

There's something new called Strawberry Hotel Listening Party on the store, but nothing new listed there yet:
https://store.underworldlive.com/col...istening-party

Also, Japan is, in fact, getting a bonus track ("Velvet Does") on their domestic CD release:
https://www.virginmusic.jp/underworld/
https://www.hmv.co.jp/artist_Underwo...HM-CD_15286332

Re: Strawberry Hotel - new album out 25th Oct
 

Thanks for the info on the Japanese CD, The Bang.

Looking forward to this one!

Re: Strawberry Hotel - new album out 25th Oct
 

Of course I'd see this after I just pre-ordered the vinyl... :). Nice to see an alternate version of the LP. Aside from the artwork, which I'm still not quite sure about - but I'll take back my statement as it being the worse... I was pissed (literally) when I posted that note. Much more hype is coming down the pike and now the UW fanboy in me is getting excited :D It was never a question about the music being good.

Re: Strawberry Hotel - new album out 25th Oct
 

I usually buy my Japanese CDs from these guys....
https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UICB-1030

Re: Strawberry Hotel - new album out 25th Oct
 

Cdjapan are reliable and rather fast. Ordered the Strawberry Hotel with the bonus track from them this week.

Re: Strawberry Hotel - new album out 25th Oct
 

wonder how much quality the extra track is,
and does it throw off the listening...

so maybe you will need to shuffle some of the tracks after all.

later
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Re: Strawberry Hotel - new album out 25th Oct
 

fwiw places like Reddit and Facebook seem to have plenty of UW discussion, as do certain Discords. I just think the concept of a message board, particularly one dedicated to a single band, has been slowly dying for the last 15 years. I was kinda surprised this place was still around tbh.

Re: Strawberry Hotel - new album out 25th Oct
 

this is the only message board I still use with any frequency.

I'd much prefer everything just be on Reddit (or similar) at this point but willing to
continue here because history + Underworld :)