Underworld’s Karl Hyde and Rick Smith have never quite fit in. They are, in basic terms, creative shapeshifters in a dance music landscape that values genre and micro-genre artists. This has been as ...

Underworld‘s transcendent Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future arrives in one of those windows of release-date alignments with anniversaries that further confirms the cyclical nature of music ...

Long-running UK electronic act Underworld are set to release Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future, their first album since 2010, on March 18. The first single from the album is “I Exhale,” which ...

Twenty years ago Underworld's fourth album Second Toughest In The Infants was a revelation during my formative teenage years. Nothing had sounded like Underworld before or since that landmark record.

It’s been 20 years since the future that legendary electronic group Underworld faced was shining its brightest. The long journey of Karl Hyde and Rick Smith began in the early ’80s, with the pair ...

When the British techno band Underworld played the Hollywood Bowl last year for the belated 20th anniversary of its 1994 breakthrough LP “dubnobasswithmyheadman,” it proved that live dance music could ...

The welcome return of Underworld to something like their best is the result of five years of diverse work, which has at times seemed to draw them away from themselves. The journey has encompassed, ...

Zoe Camp has been writing for Pitchfork since 2013. Despite her penchant for heavy rock music, she has previously covered pop and hip-hop for publications like Tiny Mix Tapes and CMJ. A Baltimore ...

Early indications are certainly promising. “I Exhale” slaps us on the back with a pounding rock rhythm and heads in, all smiles and assured, familiar nods; the sliding tone of the bass, the bright, ...

Six years on, Rick Smith and Karl Hyde are back, but is Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future a return we should welcome with open arms? Early indications are certainly promising. “I Exhale” slaps ...

Underworld have always hid a decidedly punk aesthetic beneath their crunching electronics. While hardly as confrontational as the all-gobbing, safety-pin-punctured acts of the late 1970s, Karl Hyde ...