Just listening to Underworlds latest offering "i’m a big sister, and i’m a girl, and i’m a princess, and this is my horse", the third in their Riverrun project. Available for download from their online shop underworldlive.com along with free downloadable content, this 30 minute long mix enters a dub phat phase of melancholy, like it’s tickled dubnobass with sticky fingers and gone off to play.
For many years now Underworld has been my favourite band, turned onto them first by my sister I have watched as they moved through many spirals of evolution into their current form. Truly, their older stuff was their heyday, but without a doubt also they are producing work that is exciting and fulfilling to listen to.
I remember back in the days of dubnobasswithmyheadman I used to listen to their albums like a broken record, and funnily I find myself sampling their fare rarely these days; However Underworld are not just the music they made but every tune I have ever listened to which they pimped to me. Nothing has inspired my love of music more than listening to and being influenced by their auditory hallucinations, divinations and abandoned melodies. A band of words most sublime, their work is a culmination of design, meandering and lost places made found.
‘i’m a big sister’ features Hyde’s dallow voice, echoing between bars and chasing the beats as it wanders. What I have always found most fascinating about Underworld’s work is the way they associate words and images, if you look at the title of their latest work there is something both melodious and yet unsettling in it, and this is case for many of their works. Words loosely strung together that hang like limbs connected, touching yet unsure where they fit. Perhaps as if reassembled with no prior knowledge of the complete whole.
