He has to make a living somehow, the poor man!
And it is so much more fashionable these days for critics to be, well, critical, especially on the other side of the pond.
He has some good points in there, but he strikes me more as someone who has barely listened to the music at all, almost certainly never set foot in an Underworld gig in his life, and is putting his own spin on already-published articles that have been written over the years, with a huge leap in assumption to replace actual knowledge and/or proper research.
But hey. We are the "hardcore fans" after all. So we are not going to appreciate the negativity.