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On the whole, I agree - despite it being the most unusual for them, my immediate response was Louisiana is the most Underworld track on the record.
I have two problems with the album - the beats are oversimplistic, and the vocals are a bit samey: where are the spoken tracks, or the vocal effects? Obviously it's an intentional move to make a poppier sounding record with more obvious vocals, but the variation in style was one thing I've always enjoyed in Underworld.
Oh, and they butchered Moon In Water. Or maybe High Contrast did.
Otherwise, I enjoyed the first disc a lot, a nice album, not their best, not groundbreaking, but some good songs definitely. Now for the second disc.

OWB is my favourite Underworld album, actually. But I tend to listen to more ambient music than techno and house, so that makes sense.