[unwound floors]

Now that I've given this a listen or three...

I am hesitant to make a comment on this, because often I've found that it's difficult to make a call on the quality of Underworld tracks without the context of an entire album. I loathed Holding the Moth the first time I heard it alone, but with the rest of Oblivion with Bells surrounding it, it suddenly began to make a lot more sense in terms of its narrative, feel and sound, and I began to like it a lot more.

That said, I'm quite enjoying Scribble so far. As others have pointed out so far, it seems a little mainstream and candy-raveresque, especially compared with a lot of their other work - I'd liken it to the sound and feel of Two Months Off, with its reasonably basic melody and beat. Sounds good, easily-digested, and feels like something that'd be great to drop on clubgoers at one in the morning...

I don't like it as much as I like the live versions of You Do Scribble - that has this undeniable feel of very raw, unrestrained human joy about it, which comes about from the way it builds up with that beat and the breaks in it, whereas Scribble is a very produced, clubby track. Also dug the lyrics for YDS more, but then again some of those were appropriated for Best Mamgu Ever, so to reuse them would be a little odd.

This is a single version... so I'm wondering whether the full, album version will have that Small Conker and a Twix-esque ambience and build to it in the beginning? I do hope so... those two tracks played together is fucking incredible. Scribble is making me incredibly curious as to the direction this new album will be taking - will it be similar to Beaucoup Fish in the sense that it's mostly geared towards one sound, all good-vibe dancefloor rockers (whereas Beaucoup Fish was overwhelmingly heavy bass and bangin' beats) or will it be a more expansive effort a la Oblivion with Bells with it's clubby tracks like Crocodile to moments of ambience like To Heal? I do hope for the latter, but only time will tell...

Very promising so far!