[dubman]

the thing about underworld on this round is that they wanted to get away from the complacency of AHDO. to me it means doing what they've been doing on the riverrun tracks, only more suited for an album instead of web-only experimentation.
you cant really go back to those days without looking like you're recycling and failing to break from that complacency, making the brand-new, 50% more daring underworld look like it's not convinced of it's new direction.

i think i just have high hopes for their next album. after beaucoup fish everyone tacitly agreed that they had settled and could now function as "influences" for everyone instead of still impacting music in any new or relevant way. i feel that there's been a perspective shift from 2002 based on interviews and i think they just might remedy that and be just as exciting as, say, the new justice record coming out.

which might be incredibly difficult and unfair, but they *can* do it.