Underworld - *Upcoming 2024 Album* - The Singles, Reviewed
Underworld - *Upcoming 2024 Album* - The Singles, Reviewed Along with the likes of Leftfield and Faithless, Underworld are one of the first and best examples of purveyors of what we now know as progressive house, often using expansive, 6/7/8+ minute run times and a number of eclectic influences to construct dance floor anthems of truly epic proportions. Made up of vocalist Karl Hyde and producer Rick Smith (and formerly DJ Darren Emerson), they have a nearly inscrutable back catalogue. Starting out as a synth-pop band of all things, with the release of their 1994 classic ‘Dubnobasswithmyheadman’, they began to produce what will likely prove to be some of the best dance music of all time. Of course mega hit ‘Born Slippy NUXX’ sticks out, but there’s so much more, whether it’s with other breakout albums like ‘Second Toughest In The Infants’ and ‘Beaucoup Fish’, or indeed with much of their later material, like with the brilliant ‘Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future’ in 2016, or the