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Beaucoup Fish

Underworld

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Album Review

With the buzz almost completely died down from "Born Slippy," Underworld's Trainspotting hit of over two years before, Beaucoup Fish emerged to a distinctly uncaring public. And though it is a disappointing record compared to the group's high-flying previous albums, it displays Underworld's talents well — the trio is still the best at welding obtuse songcraft onto an uncompromising techno framework and making both sound great. Karl Hyde's nasally vocals are a bit more obtrusive on tracks like the trance-rant "Moaner" and first single "Push Upstairs," but as before, impeccable production saves the day. While Second Toughest in the Infants showed Underworld were no mere novices at introducing super-tough breakbeats, here the focus is on throwback acid-house and trance. The effect is that Underworld have refused to compromise their artistic vision to anyone's view of commercialism; as such, the few excesses on Beaucoup Fish can be forgiven.

Customer Reviews

Beaucoup Fish is timeless

Every Underworld album has something great, even the 2007 release, but Beaucoup Fish is a timeless masterpiece from beginning to end. The album captured the end of a century while at the same time projecting to the end of the next. This might be said about earlier Underworld albums except that those albums have a distinct 90’s feel to them (not in a bad way!). Beaucoup Fish is like the movie Blade Runner – 'a commercial failure', but an artistic masterpiece.

Like No Other

One of the best electronic albums of all time.

Classic masterpiece

Over the years Karl Hyde and Rick Smith have forged a mixture of classic techno masterpieces mixed with melody, feeling, style, and pure art form. Pretty much electronic Gods. The album Boucoup Fish took another step by progressing techno to more electronic, with amazing beats and melody, along with the classic style of Underworld. Among all Underworld albums (love them all), over the years this has become my favorite. Eleven years after buying this album it just gets better and better. Great travel or workout album. Cups and Jumbo are great but this is an album you will want to listen to in its entirety, many times.

Biography

Formed: 1988 in London, England

Genre: Electronic

Years Active: '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Underworld became one of the most crucial electronic acts of the 1990s via an intriguing synthesis of old and new. The trio's two-man frontline, vocalist Karl Hyde and guitarist Rick Smith, had been recording together since the early-'80s new wave explosion; after two unsuccessful albums released as Underworld during the late '80s, the pair finally hit it big after recruiting Darren Emerson, a young DJ hipped to the sound of techno and trance. Traditional pop song forms were jettisoned in favor of...
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