release date: Sep. 16, 2002
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,68]
producer: Karl Hyde and Rick Smith
label V2 Records - nationality: England, UK
Tracklist: 1. "Mo Move" (3,5 / 5) - 2. "Two Months Off" (5 / 5) (shorter official video) - 3. "Twist" - 4. "Sola Sistim" (4 / 5) - 5. "Little Speaker" - 6. "Trim" - 7. "Ess Gee" - 8. "Dinosaur Adventure 3D" - 9. "Ballet Lane" - 10. "Luetin" (3,5 / 5)
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 in the year 2000, and in 2001 they became reduced to a duo, as Darren Emerson left the project, now leaving it all up to Karl Hyde and Rick Smith to continue on their own 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 but if granted time, it contains obvious bits of greatness.
[ allmusic.com 2 / 5, The Guardian, Rolling Stone 3 / 5, Mojo 3,5 / 5, NME 4 / 5 stars ]
