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 | Title : A Hundred Days Off
Author : Underworld
Release Date : 20020924
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $18.98
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Editorial Reviews :
Unlike the Chemical Brothers--their longstanding U.K. brothers in electronica--Underworld have been allowed to grow (relatively) old without being accused of stagnating. A Hundred Days Off, Underworld's first studio release since the departure of member Darren Emerson, demonstrates why. An ecstatic headrush of percolating beats, swirling synth, and shape-shifting melodies, A Hundred Days Off drags everything from Delta blues to space-age pop onto the dance floor. Because the pair takes their cues in part from the real world, filtering each idea through the prism of a rave record, we get wonky faux church bells chiming in one especially frenzied passage of the nine-minute epic 'Two Months Off.' Elsewhere, as on the curiously named 'Trim,' straightforward vocal phrasings are set against (what might be) twangy, scotch-soaked guitar while a static drum beat clicks in the distance. On the towering centerpiece track, 'Dinosaur Adventure 3D,' a vicious cymbal guts an otherwise unassuming house track, albeit one built on an increasingly complex (and speedy) palette of sounds, before a tribal vocal goosesteps over top. Clubby, dubby, and positively smokin'.
Buyer Reviews :
I LIKE the album. I have been listening to it for months now. I ripped the album online because I love Underworld too much to wait until the final release came out. So, this isn't a biased review based on my first listening of the CD. Now that I have the original copy playing in my cd player I can finally give a real review. So, here's the break down of the CD in MY opinion.
1.) Mo Move = It's a song that's just like the first song on Beaucoup Fish. It gets the CD going, but there's really nothing much to it. You don't want to chill to it, you don't want to dance to it, it's just a simple UW song.
2.) Two Months Off = I've heard this one so many times now. My advice, just keep giving it some playing time. This song makes me dance like a nut, especially when the bells start in. Good choice for the single. Doesn't really sound like a classic UW song.
3.) Twist = This one definetly doesn't sound like an UW song. More like DJ Tiesto and Moby did a mix together. I don't like the bass, but it's a nice calm song.
4.) Sola Sistem = Awesome! This is good stuff. It's a great one to relax to, groove to, or get it on to. Definetly a winner here, but nothing that could be played live, which is really what UW is all about.
5.) Little Speaker = Good bass to it, but man, what I would of done to hear Karl sing to this song. The girl has a cool calm voice, but if nice lyrics were implemented into this song, it would of rocked.
6.) Trim = Sounds like a Phil Collins song. Good, mixes well into the CD, but I think you have to be a hardcore UW fan to enjoy it.
7.) Ess Gee = I like it, it's a perfect way to get into the next song, but it's a little too weak. Some good lyrics (again, what makes underworld who they are) or some good synths could of made this controversial 'filler' song into something great.
8.) Dinosaur Adventure 3D = A lot of people like this song. It's really the only hard song on the CD. Maybe that's why people like it, because they finally came to a song that made them move. If only they put one or two more of these on the CD. It sounds a lot like KOS, which is a good thing. This song is going to rock live! Good everything here.
9.) Ballet Lane = This is what UW is about, slow dark song. So, so nice. Good bass, crisp background effects, great pace. Sounds a little like The Chemical Brother's new stuff.
10.) Luetin = The best on the CD. Easily going to be a new classic. It's going to tear apart the clubs and make newbies to UW enjoy the new CD.
All in all, I LIKE the CD, but I think it could have been so much more. I've listened to UW for so long now, and I do miss the dark tunes found in their older CDs. The best UW CD in my opinion (or ever in the world) is Second Toughest in the Infants. Juanita, Rowla, Dark and Long, Dirty Epic, M.E., Pearl's Girl, Cow Girl; these are the real classics, and yes, we do all miss them, but if you want them, go buy the CDs. If your in the mood to be a part of UW's new sound, buy this CD, you won't be dissapointed... but you also won't be taken away.
(by Jeff Koehler)
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