Strawberry Hotel - new album out 25th Oct

[Dirty0900]

There’s a lot going on in the artwork. Like the subtle picture of Rick and Karl.

[negative1]

well, good to finally get news about the album.

the first single is very short though.....hmmmm.

well, time to update the discography listings again.

later
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[Vancouver]

Originally Posted by Dino3D

Still don't understand what's going on with UW. What is this silence from them? All the album infos out there but they still haven't announced nothing, WTF is gonig on??

Thinking digital sites may have jumped the gun? Odd for that to happen in more than one site though....

[aphasein]

So...... yeah. A lot to unpack here, including no Strawberry Hotel track itself, and Denver Luna and Gene Pool being the only long tracks. And no continuing with the recent cover style, and no reason really to even have the same logo font it's so small. And a really odd choice of photos/design overall, including the Black Poppies one. And some really odd song titles, even for them. And no actual news to fans or general public announcement. And I gotta stop. Careful what you wish for.....

[saintrik]

Why assume that they don't have a coordinated roll-out plan for tomorrow (Friday), when the new single is actually available in the UK and US? The links that were shared were from NZ/AU where it was already Friday.

Seems to me like they get one good shot at press in the online outlets (Pitchfork, Stereogum, NME, etc.) and want to advertise the new album and new single when they can actually be purchased/pre-ordered in the biggest markets.

I imagine they also released information to retail a few weeks ago with an embargo on sharing publicly, and we saw a few minor online retailers screw that up. There's probably also a press embargo at play.

Difficult to have a coordinated international campaign and also cater to the trainspotters who are hunting for any internet morsel.

[aphasein]

This is closer to what I was expecting. We'll see if it fits, may end up using it instead.

[TheBang]

The Store's been updated, and everything's been posted for sale:

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

No limited editions that I can see. Just the double vinyl, and CD. Several shirts based on the tchotchkes in the album art photo, a couple lithos, and a keyring.

Also, you can sign up to be in fucking Underworld now:
https://www.iifu.club/

[ultradave]

I'm not gonna lie. This seems a bit of a let down for an album release. I think the only thing that will get me excited about this LP is if the track we all heard titled as Strawberry Hotel be on the album. I have no issue if they gave it another title, but the options are slim considering the bulk of the track times are rather short. This has to be the worse album cover in UW history. The artwork for Black Poppies is even better. aphasein - I think I'll use your album cover too! Don't get me wrong, I am excited for a new UW album for sure... I just don't know how I feel about this one - guess I will have to wait until October 25th to find out. I do hope some of these smaller tracks are blended into other tracks on the album.

[TheBang]

A few observations based on the credits on the back cover of the vinyl:

Art by YEAR0001 https://year0001.com/
Nina Nastasia appears on Iron Bones
Esme wrote and performs Ottavia. It's transcribed from Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea, so it may be a choral piece (like "A Moth at the Door" in Drift).

[TheBang]

R&K will be on Mary Anne Hobbs on BBC 6 Music sometime in the next hour to discuss the new album:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00228sr