The three Brits) that make up Underworld, Karl Hyde, Rick Smith, and Darren Emerson, have released Beaucoup Fish. They present themselves as yet another polished act from the UK. I would recommend their album to the first-time listeners of techno/electronic because the album presents this type of music without the ferocity of the Chemical Brothers or Prodigy. Underworld has provided listeners with some electronic music that sophisticates itself beyond that typical rave-styled type that we often hear and associate with the genre.
Creative use of instrumental and vocal elements enables this album to be listened to alongside of the likes of Enigma. A few tracks on Beaucoup Fish, especially the first, “Cups”, are more universally listener-friendly in sound and would attract a wider pool of fans. Then comes “Shudder/King of Snake”, the get-up-off-your-ass-and-dance rave type of song that we often generalize as techno, and typically hear out in clubs.
As for the way the album was put together, all of the tracks are better than four minutes long. With eleven tracks, this makes for a full album. When I listened to Beaucoup Fish, I found myself neither fast forwarding nor repeating any tracks. The order in which Underworld has chosen for listeners to hear their work is progressive. It starts out mellow and classy at a slow and steady pace; then the fellows speed it up for the heart of their work. Underworld leaves us with three darker more subdued sounding tracks as they finish the album.
Beaucoup Fish is a production; not just some music slapped on a cd.
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