Strawberry Hotel - new album out 25th Oct

[Dirty Saint]

Looks like a new album is to drop 25th Oct

https://music.apple.com/nz/album/str...tel/1761865594

https://store.underworldlive.com/col...rawberry-hotel

[Dirty0900]

Not on Spotify yet.

[evwhitton16]

Fantastic news! My only question is what happened to Strawberry Hotel the song? working title? shame if it was left off cos it was great

[botkiller]

Just went and pulled it up on Youtube to refresh myself. I'm pretty sure they played this in LA when I saw them last year (2023). I love this vibe from the boys and I would be curious what happened to the song itself as well. might be that it changed titles, much like how alwayslovedafilm morphed a few times.

[Dino3D]

Finally!

[purlieu]

16 tracks. So... very long album, lots of short tracks, or deluxe extended edition. Interesting to see the a capella of 'Denver Luna' on there, I do enjoy reprises and linked pieces throughout an album.

[Dino3D]

I think this is a deluxe itunes version. Very unlikely to have a 15 track UW album and I don't think that the acapella version would be on a main album. I think the main album would ending with track 10.


Anyway I disappointed in the cover art. I hoped that album cover will be the same style as Denver and Red, only some blurry colors with that gorgeous UW lettering. Sadly that logo is too small on the cover and too many thing happening on the cover.

[saintrik]

Strawberry Hotel
1 Black Poppies 2:52
2 denver luna 8:01
3 Techno Shinkansen 3:23
4 and the colour red 5:42
5 Sweet Lands Experience 4:44
6 Lewis In Pomona 5:38
7 Hilo Sky 5:04
8 Burst of Laughter 3:27
9 King of Haarlem 3:46
10 Ottavia 5:00
11 denver luna (acappella) 2:27
12 Gene Pool 9:07
13 Oh Thorn! 1:59
14 Iron Bones 4:39
15 Stick Man Test 2:35

Japan-only Bonus Track
16 Velvet Does

Total length: 01:08:24
c 2024 Underworld t/a Smith Hyde Productions

Apple Music
US: https://music.apple.com/us/album/str...tel/1761865594
UK: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/str...tel/1761865594

Qobuz
US: https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/st.../wbjl275992f9a
UK: https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/st.../wbjl275992f9a

[34958hq439-qjw9v5jq298v5j]

I think Dino is probably right. though "Gene Pool" is def strong enough for the album.

do we know if that's the cover art? if so, very unusual for UW...but then again, so was Drift. and Barking for that matter.

[dubman]

Originally Posted by 34958hq439-qjw9v5jq298v5j

do we know if that's the cover art? if so, very unusual for UW...but then again, so was Drift. and Barking for that matter.

I think it was Autechre that said it takes a new album for everyone to finally get used to and accept their last album for what it is.

It's getting funnier to me that this duo continually evolves faster than we're collectively ready for. Every new LP on the horizon conjures this comparison image of the Tomato-based typographic long jams from nearly 30(!) years ago, even though they've doggedly proven that their 'world is bigger than that. It's annoying as fuck when that next step doesn't jibe with us, but even when it does I have this uncertainty of "is this what it is now?" and I'm stuck between how artists move and what I waaaaant.

After this long, it seems like Rick has been working to bond past and present into one Grand Work that is :Underworld, and usually correcting/expanding our own terms of what that means. It takes some trust, a small example being: if we collectively hate the Drift sampler cover, it's more rewarding to think on why it was chosen instead of crossing our arms about it being lazy.

I don't think this situation is unique to Underworld. There's a perpetual (and necessary) disconnect between artists and audiences, in which we find our fandom through a successful blend of hype and marketing that keeps us attached to an idea, which immediately creates tension with how artists work. We make an ethos out of that idea, and it almost never aligns with where the work could go.

So what's with the uneasy legibility here? why so straightforward, cordoned off? White on neon? Let's think on what it could be, and see how it meshes with what we're hearing. It could just be a miss, but it's more fun this way.