UNDERWORLD - Strawberry Hotel SHINEDOWN The ‘breakbeat’ remains at the

The ‘breakbeat’ remains at the very heart of hip-hop

listening to their songs and harmonies is like entering a world you always hoped existed but had never experienced

” and “Two Steps Behind

booming drums

UNDERWORLD - Strawberry Hotel SHINEDOWN The ‘breakbeat’ remains at theCD 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 little more than metronomic