2025 Reissue
LP, Reissue, 180g
LP, Reissue, 180g
Smith Hyde Productions (2025) WW
180gsm heavy weight black vinyl. Cut at half speed and meticulously checked for the highest quality audio.
Double gatefold with the classic design from the original pressing but with added spine detail to showcase your collection.
Underworld were hardly inactive after releasing Barking in 2010; still, their 2016 album Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future was widely regarded as a major comeback for the duo. The big, boxy, crashing drums of ‘I Exhale’ were enough to grab attention, while gushing with distortion and heavy guitar strums that many cited as a return to form.
Steely staccato words are spoken over razoring techno beeps just as they were in the days of Underworld yore, but the album’s midpoint throws a left turn with ‘Santiago Cuatro’, its rapid ancient plucks reverberating over a drone, leading into the prickly chirping microbeats of ‘Motor Home’ which coalesce into a bagpipe powered wildness.