UNDERWORLD - Second Toughest In The Infants (reissue) - Vinyl (gatefold LP)
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UNDERWORLD
Second Toughest In The Infants (reissue)
Smith Hyde Productions
gatefold LP Cat: UWR 00100LPRel: 19 May 25
Progressive House Side 1. Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream Of Love Side 2 - Track 1. Banstyle/Sappy's Curry Side 2 - Track 2. Confusion The Waitress Side 3 - Track 1. Rowla Side 3 - Track 2. Pearls Girl Side 4 - Track 1. Air Towel Side 4 - Track 2. Blueski Side 4 - Track 3. Stagger
British heavyweights Underworld delivered one of the 90s' most enduring dance albums with their second LPivisionary, sprawling, and wired with tension. This 2025 reissue does it justice, pressed onto heavyweight vinyl with a half-speed cut that gives its deep, hypnotic sonics fresh bite. From the moment 'Juanita : Kiteless : To Dream Of Love' opens with glitchy insistence and locked grooves, it's clear how ahead of its time this was. The glitch-techno swirl of 'Banstyle/Sappy's Curry' and the growling 'Rowla' nod to Sheffield and Detroit in equal measure, while 'Pearl's Girl' pulses with breakbeat aggression and warped vocals, its grit sharpened here by the remaster. 'Confusion the Waitress' and 'Air Towel' show the band at their most meditative, layering ambience and submerged breaks into something closer to sound design than club tool. Even 'Blueski' and 'Stagger'ishorter, sketch-like piecesifeel essential to the album's industrial-sublime mood. Still fiercely modern, still haunted, still euphoric. An artefact of the past that belongs squarely in the now.
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