INTERVIEW BY MACKENZIE WILSON / FILMED BY ERIC NOWELS

For their first studio effort in over five years, Oblivion with Bells, due Oct. 16, Karl Hyde, a.k.a. one half of seminal Brit electronic duo Underworld, has emerged to detail their forthcoming effort, one in which both Hyde and Rick Smith employed a fresh perspective and work ethic. "Rick [Smith] started this thing which he called 'Hotel Room Mode'… we would write and record music then swap laptops… that's how it started," Hyde tells SPIN.com of the album's inception. Later, the seasoned musician reveals their sessions at Abbey Road Studios, in which the "esoteric Underworld" surfaces, divulges projects the two knob twiddlers have undertaken since 2002's A Hundred Days Off, and discusses the gravity of his musical partnership with Smith: "Rick, to me, is the most inspiring musician I've ever worked with." 

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