Underworld - Strawberry Hotel

NEW VINYL LP ON UNIVERSAL 2025

2 X 180 GRAM VINYL. (Pre-order, out 30-05-25)

Here, gleaming tensile techno forms clean, straight lines while scratchy acoustic guitars scuff up edges to produce ghostly audio. Poetry is snatched from the overhead, removed from the overheard; words borrowed from the ether are spun into dizzying new shapes, sometimes reappearing in new settings, twisted back to front, side to side. Each track a very different room - some soundtracked by little more than metronomic kick drum and robotic voice, others deep in layer upon layer of melody and euphoric noise - and each room unmistakably, uniquely Underworld. The only advice from Underworld’s Rick Smith and Karl Hyde upon entering: “Please don’t shuffle.”

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Tracklist

Black Poppies
denver luna
Techno Shinkansen
and the colour red
Side B
Sweet Lands Experience
Lewis In Pomona
Hilo Sky
Burst Of Laughter
Side C
King Of Haarlem
Ottavia
denver luna (acapella)
Side D
Gene Pool
Oh Thorn!
Iron Bones
Stick Man Test