Underworld review – still properly electrifying

Colston Hall, Bristol

Underworld ripped up rave’s rule book with their cerebral third album Dubnobasswithmyheadman. Can they replicate it 20 years on?

“What do you fancy doing tonight?” Underworld frontman Karl Hyde can address this leading question to the Bristol Colston Hall crowd with complete confidence that there’s nowhere else they’d rather be. Once you’ve heard a round of applause for the font choice in a back projection at the start of a live show, you can be pretty sure the paying public are on side.

To be fair, it is a remarkably fine typeface – chunky, all lower case, and the hors d’oeuvre before a veritable typographical banquet. Every one of the nine songs from the album which we’re about to hear in its entirety will have its own subtly varied intertitle, as if each of the dialogue captions for a silent film had been penned by a slightly different hand.

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by Ben Thompson via Electronic music | The Guardian