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Originally Posted by kid cue
you don't think UW live performances use piled-up snare rolls and endless ascents? are you kidding??
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i certainly dont... ive seen them almost 20 times live and as a contributor to rtsr i've heard a lot of bootlegs too. they go through lots of musical styles, sometimes with long improvised jams and other times with short and punchy singles. It depends on whether youre seeing them at a festival or not I suppose.
Its possible to criticise a band for making all their songs sounding too samey on an album or and also criticise them for too many musical styles. These are Sherburne's opinions and he's entitled to them. I disagree with them as is my wont. I would say that we have heard the albums and the songs more than Sherburne has and we know them better than he does.
I'm wondering why he has chosen now to write about Underworld. Since AHDO they have diversified a lot and experimented much more. If you thought AHDO was Underworld going through the motions then what has happened since is a backlash to that. Now that UW are free agents they have been able to explore what they want to do, releasing 4 online EPs, a live album and (soon to be) 2 soundtracks.
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Originally Posted by kid cue
given that the releases are only made available on underworldlive.com (and publicized on dirty's front page), which is a fairly esoteric website that only long-term / die-hard UW fans are going to check with any regularity, and that their premise is for Rick to experiment wildly with production & structure, it seems like sort of a critic-proof outlet.
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I can see where youre coming from with this, but the releases have been given a big online push and every online dance music website and print magazine have given these releases column inches. Also, the releases were not only made available via Underworldlive.com but remixed on 12" available in the shops internationally and via iTunes/beatport etc.
Obviously this wont get the coverage that a CD album would get because they are not available on CD in your average shop but things are changing and its hard for dance artists to get shelf space in the big CD stores and small independents are feeling the squeeze due to the purchasing power of giants like Wal-Mart.
Anyway, just my tuppence worth, for what its worth.