Underworld

Underworld's genius and longevity lies in their ability to craft real songs among the beats. Their third outing features new sounds and song structures; from the velvety smooth opener, the energy builds with "Jumbo," and finally rips with the utterly massive, idiosyncratic "Kittens." As electronic music continues to evolve, this will go down as one of the classics.

Underworld contentedly played to a cult audience for years, until 1996, when they found
themselves on the hit Trainspotting soundtrack exactly at the point when the genre they'd
been working in for most of their lives was suddenly proclaimed the next big thing. Before
the Brit techno trio could get its next album out, the American media had deemed that
genre -- electronica -- a non-happening, yet they still looked to Underworld to p... More >