UK electronic icons Underworld have announced the release of their eleventh studio album ‘Strawberry Hotel‘.
The announcement coincides with the release of their new single ‘Black Poppies’. The record marks the group’s first studio album in five years, following on from the 2019’s Drift Series 1. It will be out on 25 October through Virgin Music and the band’s own label Smith Hyde Productions. Pre-order it here.
According to the press release, 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.”
Check out “Black Poppies” below, followed by the album’s artwork and tracklist.
Underworld “Strawberry Hotel” Tracklisting:
- Black Poppies
- denver luna
- Techno Shinkansen
- and the colour red
- Sweet Lands Experience
- Lewis In Pomona
- Hilo Sky
- Burst Of Laughter
- King Of Haarlem
- Ottavia
- denver luna (acapella)
- Gene Pool
- Oh Thorn!
- Iron Bones
- Stick Man Test
Photo courtesy of Underworld
