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│ artist...[ Underworld ] │██▄
│ album....[ A Hundred Days Off ] │██▄
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│ genre....[ Electronic ] │█
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│ ripped...[ Sep-08-2002 ] │█
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██│ 01.Mo Move │
██│ 02.Two Months Off │
██│ 03.Twist │
██│ 04.Sola Sistem │
██│ 05.Little Speaker │
██│ 06.Trim │
██│ 07.Ess Gee │
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│ │█ Three years on from their last studio album,
│ │█ and two years after the release of their
│ │█ award winning DVD (æEverything EverythingÆ),
│ │█ Underworld return with a masterstroke in the
│ │█ form of their inspirational fourth album æA
│ │█ Hundred Days OffÆ. Glowing with evidence
│ │█ that after ten years of summoning up the
│ │█ highest quality dance rooted music around,
│ │█ Karl Hyde and Rick Smith can still do it,
│ │█ with dignity - and crucially, after the
│ │█ departure of long serving DJ colleague
│ │█ Darren Emerson, can still clean up on the
│ │█ dancefloor.
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│ │█ Smith/Hyde Productions went on a drift dive
│ │█ for 'A Hundred Days Off'. Deliberately
│ │█ freeing themselves to make whatever kind of
│ │█ music their muse dictated, they floated into
│ │█ uncharted waters and then, paradoxically
│ │█ found a way to re-connect with their core
│ │█ virtues. Recognisably Underworld, it's also
│ │█ a more sensual version. The great locked in
│ │█ grooves shift and dissolve, giving way to
│ │█ looped blues and
│ │█ installation music calm. Techno kinetics
│ │█ fuse with carnival percussion. Soulful, sexy
│ │█ and supple, they have again created a
│ │█ soundstream for the times. It sounds like a
│ │█ record made by people who feel alright with
│ │█ themselves. It sounds less under, and more
│ │█ world.
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│ │█ With breakbeat dissection taking a backseat
│ │█ to real instruments and the palette expanded
│ │█ with the odd trip to Ray Man's Percussion
│ │█ Shop to buy 'toys', the album evolved in an
│ │█ atmosphere of relative contentment. Perhaps
│ │█ that's why the darker currents swirling
│ │█ through tracks like those on 'Second
│ │█ Toughest...' are less evident this time. In
│ │█ the broadest sense, 'A Hundred Days Off' is
│ │█ a soulful record. It starts where you might
│ │█ expect an Underworld record to begin, with
│ │█ Karl intoning æI dreamed that I'd become
│ │█ chemicalÆ, over the surging kinetics of 'Mo
│ │█ Move'. Even here, though, there's a
│ │█ Brazilian rhythmic undertow. 'Two Months
│ │█ Off' kicks hard, but isn't there an echo of
│ │█ rejoicing (wedding) bells in there, as Karl
│ │█ sings 'You bring light in" over and over.
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│ │█ For each funky symphonic tech-epic ('Little
│ │█ Speaker'), heavily spiked motortechno groove
│ │█ ('Dinosaur Adventure 3DÆ), and shadowy
│ │█ stomper - ('Luetin') thereÆs a brace of warm
│ │█ dippers. 'Trim' is looped, but nearly
│ │█ straight folk blues (with a genius Hyde
│ │█ micro-lyric æHey classic Coca-Cola!"). 'Ess
│ │█ Gee' is a pearl of softness. 'Sola Sistim'
│ │█ sets a self-doubting lyric against huggable
│ │█ phunk. The famously complex and unfathomable
│ │█ Underworld working process clearly benefited
│ │█ from the relaxed approach, hinted at in the
│ │█ album's title.
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│ │█ Officially the most cheerful Underworld
│ │█ track ever laid down by Rick and Karl, æTwo
│ │█ Months OffÆ has kick started this triumphant
│ │█ return and has been blowing up massively on
│ │█ terraces, dancefloors, and at festivals
│ │█ already this summer. A track thatÆs getting
│ │█ a big thumbs up from all the main players,
│ │█ and definitely works on all peaktime floors.
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