{"id":44654,"date":"2016-04-20T08:55:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T13:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=44654"},"modified":"2016-04-20T00:35:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T05:35:12","slug":"underworld-barbara-barbara-we-face-a-shining-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2016\/04\/20\/underworld-barbara-barbara-we-face-a-shining-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Underworld: Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Barbara-Barbara-e1461129366120.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-44916 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Barbara-Barbara-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Barbara\" width=\"269\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a>To most American audiences, Underworld, the duo of vocalist Karl Hyde and producer Rick Smith, will be best remembered for providing the excellent ending music to the cult film,\u00a0<em>Trainspotting<\/em>. While that tune, titled &#8220;Born Slippy.Nuxx,&#8221; has gone down in history as a timeless rave anthem, electronic fans old and new across the pond know Underworld better for its influence on electronic music, via a superb live act and a series of excellent techno albums in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>The pair&#8217;s latest, <em>Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future<\/em>, is a showcase of that side of the band&#8217;s legacy. The result is not a glowing highlight amon electronic albums this year, but is their best release in the past 15 years.<\/p>\n<p><em>Barbara Barbara<\/em> flourishes because the band isn&#8217;t afraid to embrace its signature sound. It&#8217;s an album that one might expect to hear at a club setting, but it&#8217;s also clearly meant to be heard in the comfort of the home. &#8220;If Rah&#8221; comes off immediately as a track that should be thumped on a sound system, due to the hypnosis its rhythm and hooks induce on the listener.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, &#8220;Nylon Strung&#8221; could serve as a poignant jam to end a rave at 3 a.m. On the other side, &#8220;Santiago Cuatro&#8221; serves as a great break midway through the album, as it substitutes out a pulsing beat in favor of Spanish-style string plucking. Karyl Hyde&#8217;s vocals throughout are top notch, whether it&#8217;s through eliciting a trance by chanting &#8220;Luna luna luna lun-a&#8221; or using his words to convey emotional highs and lows throughout each track.<\/p>\n<p>This is all par for the course with Underworld, and anyone fond of <em>Dubnobasswithmyheadman<\/em> or <em>Second Toughest In The Infants<\/em> will be pleased. The album feels right in the moment and the high quality, earnest songwriting heard here doesn&#8217;t age.<br \/>\n<b><br \/>\nRecommended If You Like: Orbital, Leftfield, Moby, Chemical Brothers<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Recommended Tracks: 1 (I Exhale), 2 (If Rah), 7 (Nylon Strung)<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Do Not Play: None<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Written by Adam Raimond on 04\/20\/16 <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Underworld\u2019s ninth album in their 25+ year career shows how well the duo&#8217;s sound has carried over and defined electronic of the modern era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11906,"featured_media":44916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,4,3235,3230],"tags":[4199,4919,4880,11,4881],"class_list":["post-44654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hopelectronic-rotation","category-music","category-music-reviews","category-new-music-rotation","tag-adam-raimond","tag-barbara-barbara-we-face-a-shining-future","tag-electronic-rotation","tag-new-music-rotation","tag-underworld"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Barbara-Barbara-e1461129366120.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11906"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}