Why have one grail when you can have TWO? Followed up yesterday’s Kruder & Dorfmeister Sessions Remastered Edition with this treasure, also from Germany – an original press of Underworld’s Second Toughest in the Infants. This was the last of their vinyl-issued albums missing from my catalog of over 375 analog and digital albums, and it is so exciting to finally claim one for my own!
And, to top everything off, the seller threw in the classic “Rez / Cowgirl” single as a surprise gift!
Second Toughest was the incredible follow-up to the Underworld Mk 2 debut, Dubnobasswithmyheadman. The record is equal-parts floor-stomping club anthems and cerebral, meditative headphone music.
Hyde’s stream-of-consciousness free form lyrical poetry deconstructs the objective properties of language and functions purely as a rhythmic device, complementing the subtle progression of Rick Smith’s atmospheric abstract techno.
This, like all of Underworld’s recordings, is a milestone for the ages.