Strawberry Hotel

Description

Welcome to ‘Strawberry Hotel’. Here, gleaming tensile techno forms clean, straight lines while scratchy acoustic guitars scuff up edges to produce ghostly audio. Poetry is snatched from the overhead, removed from the overheard; words borrowed from the ether are spun into dizzying new shapes, sometimes reappearing in new settings, twisted back to front, side to side. Each track a very different room – some soundtracked by little more than metronomic kick drum and robotic voice, others deep in layer upon layer of melody and euphoric noise – and each room unmistakably, uniquely Underworld. The only advice from Underworld’s Rick Smith and Karl Hyde upon entering: ‘Please don’t shuffle.’

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Black Poppies – Underworld
2. Denver Luna – Underworld
3. Techno Shinkansen – Underworld
4. And the Colour Red – Underworld
5. Sweet Lands Experience – Underworld
6. Lewis in Pomona – Underworld
7. Hilo Sky – Underworld
8. Burst of Laughter – Underworld
9. King of Haarlem – Underworld
10. Ottavia – Underworld
11. Denver Luna (Acapella) – Underworld
12. Gene Pool – Underworld
13. Oh Thorn! – Underworld
14. Iron Bones – Underworld
15. Stick Man Test – Underworld