Teatime Dub Encounters [EP]
by Underworld & Iggy Pop
  • Record Label: Caroline
  • Release Date: Jul 27, 2018
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6.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
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  1. stariban
    Jul 28, 2018
    9
    Loved every track on the album. Sure will listen to it again. Many times.

    Music sounds like a soundtrack from T3: Trainspotting. To me it was kind of surprising to hear Iggy Pop in techno project. But he’s known for experiments with various genres. Throughout his career he made punk-rock, glam with Bowie, folk with Bregovic, jazz. Well, now you can add techno-pop to the list. Lyrics    Loved every track on the album. Sure will listen to it again. Many times.

    Music sounds like a soundtrack from T3: Trainspotting. To me it was kind of surprising to hear Iggy Pop in techno project. But he’s known for experiments with various genres. Throughout his career he made punk-rock, glam with Bowie, folk with Bregovic, jazz. Well, now you can add techno-pop to the list.

    Lyrics are also decent. Especially, in the third track — "I'll See Big". It’s a quite and slow reflection on what does friendship feel like when you’ve already lived your life (long live Iggy tho).

    “Bells & Circles” is a good one as well. At first it may seem like an old fella's lament that things were better back then. But it’s actually deeper. To me it’s a song about a new era — era of restrictions. All you do is hear “you can’t do that”, “you can’t do this”. Life has more rules now.

    When I first heard “Get Your Shirt” I thought that Iggy Pop must’ve heard this phrase like a million times in his life, lol. But “shirt” here is not always a shirt. It’s more about your identity. People never treat each other right and sometimes it’s hard to keep up. But you better stick to your shirt and don’t lose it.

    You’ll love it if you’re an Iggy Pop fan, like myself.    … Expand

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65

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Drowned In Sound
    Jul 31, 2018
    80
    It’s an example of a glorious spoken-word-music jive that’s becoming increasingly popular. It’s an electronic update on whatever happened to the eponymous Jonny from ‘Lust for Life’s lyrics. It’s a piece of nostalgia.
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  2. Pitchfork
    Jul 31, 2018
    47
    Underworld’s compositions are lush and polished, while Iggy’s ad-libs tend to spin their wheels, at times pausing and sputtering while he searches for the next word or phrase.
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  3. The Observer (UK)
    Jul 30, 2018
    60
    So you might come to Teatime Dub Encounters--a most English half-smile of titles, one that echoes the rueful cosiness of another Underworld opus, Second Toughest in the Infants--for the antic misdemeanours, or for the latterday Dylanish radio drawl, but you will stay for the way Iggy confesses that he has always struggled to make friends and keep the ones he’s got--the gist of I’ll See Big.
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