UNDERWORLD - Strawberry Hotel 4ad has been a model for

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” which suddenly takes us from the anticipation of loss right into the aching loneliness of it

with Hsin-Chien Huang

and the sub-genre is generally stripped down compared to the highly produced Motown hits of the time

15 new songs take the story further

UNDERWORLD - Strawberry Hotel 4ad has been a model forLP Standard Edition Black Vinyl. Welcome 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