Strawberry Hotel - Dirty reviews

[botkiller]

As someone who lives and breathes UW, I'll admit that it's not my favorite record right ou the gate. But that's also how I felt about BBWFASF when it first came out.

It's interesting to me to see the boys and their progression. They don't HAVE to make club bangers anymore, and honestly I think that is good.

I liken it to when Robert Miles (RIP) released "Dreamland". That album is brilliant. But after that, he got to do more of what he wanted to do. And that's something that I think artists should be able to pursue.

This record has a lot of darkness to it. Not in an off-putting way, necessarily, but I think you can hear through it that like, shit went down over the past years, and everyone is working through a lot of that (COVID, etc. etc.), in their own ways.

I think in the long run it'll always end up being one that I put on from time-to-time, of course. Personally I still love the Drift series and the variety of tracks in it, and what I have always really loved about UW is the way that every song is sort of just one of many iterations. They inspire me greatly with their work in that way.

That said, I'm gonna go listen to it again.