Underworld-Second toughest in the infants

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Underworld's position in the budding electronic universe isunique: Each of its songs is as much a pop tune as a deftlysculpted rhythm track. Not the usual three-minute pop, but interwoven epics that develop over twice the length, using rhythms and loops rather than verses and choruses as buildingblocks. On SECOND TOUGHEST IN THE INFANTS (a nod to the hardships of sophomore outings), Karl Hyde, Rick Smith and Darren Emerson create a haunting new language built of dub, ambient, techno, jungle and rock textures, all set to a bass-heavy pulse. And even that fails to describe the dark, dreamlike atmospheres that the trio creates.First off, there arethe rhythmic overdoses. The opening "Juanita", clocking in at an epic 16 minutes, features layered, percolating percussion that rides an incessant techno throb down a highway intoa psychedelic sunset. "Rowla" takes a punky, distorted-beyond-repair keyboard loop and drops it in the middle of the dance floor, where it roars like the Tasmanian devil. Most unusual of all is "Blueski", a three-minute instrumental that slows the pace around a bluesy slide-guitar loop, evoking a late-night scene in a parallel universe. All these sounds areparts of Underworld's expansive domain, unified by the aforementioned pulse and the search for more of it. (Amazon .co.uk)