★★★★★
Thunder thunder, lightning ahead! Now dark and even longer - a revolutionary album turns 20... At the turn of the 1990s, Karl Hyde took a job in The City. His synth-rock group Underworld had been through two albums and three lineup changes in three years, and had got nowhere but dropped by the Sire label. It had been seven years since Hyde's only brush with success, an electropop group called Freur whose "Doot-Doot" had got to Number 17- in New Zealand...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2014-11-18
★★★★★
?????????? Remember Underworld? Though they've been around (in various versions) since 1980, they are arguably most famous for 1995's "Born Slippy," a dance/rave anthem that featured prominently in the film Trainspotting. Indeed, it was through "Born Slippy" that this reviewer first really discovered Underworld...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2014-11-14
★★★★★
The five-disc, six-and-a-quarter-hour long edition of Underworld's 1994 debut (well, debut in the form that most people would recognize as Underworld, with Rick Smith and Karl Hyde teaming up with Darren Emerson in the wake of Underworld mk I's collapse) is the kind of thing you'd never recommend to someone interested in checking out the band for the first time...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-10-24
★★★★★
Contemporary reviews of this seminal dance album got very excited over the lyrics; desperate to cling on to conceptual content, many critics refuse to entertain functional music. For Underworld, DJ Darren Emerson provided the club credentials, while Karl Hyde and Rick Smith's apprenticeships in forgettable new wave band Freur (and on Underworld's unrecognisable poppy early material) brought in songwriting of a depth that was rare in dance music back then.
- recordcollectormag.com
2014-10-08
★★★★★
The path Underworld took to get to Dubnobasswithmyheadman, their extraordinary "first" album in the second phase of the band, was full of dashed hopes and improbable left turns. Karl Hyde and Rick Smith, to this day the nucleus of the band, were previously known for being in the synth inflected new wave band Freur, whose "Doot-Doot" was a minor hit in 1983...
- pitchfork.com
2014-10-08
★★★★★
Contrary to its predecessor, Beaucoup Fish is convincing and demonstrates that Underworld is not just a soundtrack band. The big news is that the group has gone back to singing (or murmuring) just as it did on its first album. The album oscillates between pure robotic style and The Orb's ambiant. So the excellent Push Upstairs, Shudder (and its I feel love sample), Kittens, as well as the fabulous Moaner (previously affiliated with the disastrous Batman & Robin) hammer away at your syrupy...
- www.plume-noire.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Twenty years in the DJ business and the Underworld boys have a towering stack of material, and after twenty years of doing anything it never hurts to look back and contemplate what you did and why you did it. Underworld is Karl Hyde and Rick Smith; they've been leaders of the house/trance/rave world since at least the '80s. This year they've released two projects totaling a staggering four CDs worth of material. First we have the single-disc Collection with 16 tracks...
- www.ink19.com
2012-04-02
★★★★★
A Collection is one of two retrospective compilations the duo of Karl Hyde and Rick Smith, better known as Underworld, is releasing at the same time, the other being 1992 - 2012 Anthology. While these two sets feature much of the same music (other than the third disc of Anthology, which has unreleased and rare material), A Collection offers one disc of jukebox-friendly versions of familiar Underworld tracks...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2012-03-26
★★★★★
All these years of feverishly buying Underworld releases and here they all are, nicely compiled in a three-disc set. 1992- 2012 Anthology is one of two retrospective collections the forward-thinking British dance duo is putting out at the same time, marking 20 years of Underworld. The duo released a similarly titled greatest hits collection 10 years ago: 1992 - 2002. A large number of these tracks were also on the Underworld live album, Everything Everything...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2012-03-26
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