release date: Sep. 16, 2002
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5] [3,84]
producer: Karl Hyde and Rick Smith
label V2 Records - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 1. "Mo Move" - 2. "Two Months Off" (5 / 5) (shorter official video) - 3. "Twist" (4 / 5) - 4. "Sola Sistim" - 5. "Little Speaker" - 8. "Dinosaur Adventure 3D" - 10. "Luetin"
6th studio album by Underworld who has now again become the original duo without Darren Emerson. Following the great Beaucoup Fish (Mar. 1999) the trio released its first live album Everything, Everything (Sep. 2000), but by then they had already become reduced to a duo, as Darren Emerson left the project after the world tour following the '99 album. Hereby, Underworld is once agin left in the hands of Karl Hyde and Rick Smith to continue on their own, just the way they had initially started out.
The album is still a fine progressive house release, although, it doesn't quite reach the same level as the '99 album. "Two Months Off", however, is an absolute brilliant track and it stands as one of their single-best tracks ever recorded. Where the album didn't open up as immediate as their so far biggest success, this has a more long-lasting impact and functions more as a whole and it may require more willed spins on your preferred player to fully sink in, however, if granted time and attention, it contains obvious bits of greatness, and to me, and despite my 'low' rating, this is one of my absolute favourites by Underworld.
[ 👎allmusic.com 2 / 5, 👎Rolling Stone 3 / 5, Mojo 3,5 / 5, 👉NME, Uncut 4 / 5 stars ]
