Underworld "Strawberry Hotel" 2025-07-04 Then 2020 happened

Then 2020 happened

It gained more attention when the Foo Fighters' early material was released in 1995

and the variance between these projects loosely follows a few signifiers

abuse and a struggle for identity

(I'm Still Not Over You)

Underworld "Strawberry Hotel" 2025-07-04 Then 2020 happenedWelcome to Strawberry Hotel. Here, gleaming tensile techno forms clean, straight lines while scratchy acoustic guitars scuff up edges to produce ghostly audio. Poetry is snatched from the overhead, removed from the overheard; words borrowed from the ether are spun into dizzying new shapes, sometimes reappearing in new settings, twisted back to front, side to side. Each track a very different room some soundtracked by little more than metronomic kick