Underworld - Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future (CD, 2025 Reissue) hard rock Glitch Princess opens a channel

Glitch Princess opens a channel to the in-between spaces: error messages and broken computer code where soothing un-melodies rest comfortably among the jagged edges of feedback loops

” Sometimes it’s hard to see the change when you’re the agent of it

beset by longing and exhaustion

with the front cover taijitu flowers and back cover tear gas canisters rendered in

” – Nancy Sinatra

Underworld - Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future (CD, 2025 Reissue) hard rock Glitch Princess opens a channel2025 Reissue CD Smith Hyde Productions (2025) WW Underworld were hardly inactive after releasing Barking in 2010; still, their 2016 album Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future was widely regarded as a major comeback for the duo. The big, boxy, crashing drums of I Exhale were enough to grab attention, while gushing with distortion and heavy guitar strums that many cited as a return to form. Steely staccato words are spoken over razoring techno