Underworld 'liberated' by live releases

Underworld have suggested that they may continue to avoid the "restrictive" album format when they release their new material later this year.

Frontman Karl Hyde told The Glade Programme that the group had taken advantage of the sale of non-album downloads and CDs through the UnderworldLive project.

Hyde said: "We're in the process of releasing material at the moment.

"We've always thought from our early days that the album format was very restrictive, so we started releasing 12-inches, putting stuff out on download and selling material five minutes after we came off stage."

He added: "It's really liberated us and freed us up. So when I say releasing I've no idea what format it's going to take. All I know is that we've got some really good material and it's going to be coming out over the next month."