Editing Beaucoup Fish (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Music ratings
| MC = 79/100<ref name="metacritic1">{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/beaucoup-fish/underworld |title=Reviews for Beaucoup Fish by Underworld |publisher=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=9 January 2012}}</ref>
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="allmusic1">{{cite web |last=Bush |first=John |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/beaucoup-fish-mw0000048296 |title=Beaucoup Fish – Underworld |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=9 January 2012}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev2score = A<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite magazine |last=Browne |first=David |author-link=David Browne (journalist) |url=https://ew.com/article/1999/04/13/beaucoup-fish/ |title=Beaucoup Fish |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=13 April 1999 |access-date=9 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161025093519/http://www.ew.com/article/1999/04/13/beaucoup-fish |archive-date=25 October 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[The Guardian]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite news |last=Osborne |first=Ben |title=Underworld: Beaucoup Fish (V2) |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=5 March 1999}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Melody Maker]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Underworld: Beaucoup Fish |magazine=[[Melody Maker]] |date=27 February 1999}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Mixmag]]''
| rev5score = 5/5<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Fearn |first=Rob |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/bigscreensatellite/4429254724/ |title=Fish and Trips |magazine=[[Mixmag]] |volume=2 |issue=94 |date=March 1999 |access-date=9 January 2012 |page=149}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[NME]]''
| rev6score = 8/10<ref name="NME Album Reviews - Beaucoup Fish">{{cite magazine |last=Mulvey |first=John |url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19990204142615reviews.html |title=Underworld – Beaucoup Fish |magazine=[[NME]] |date=4 March 1999 |access-date=12 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991118004052/http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19990204142615reviews.html |archive-date=18 November 1999 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev7score = 6.8/10<ref>{{cite web |last=DiCrescenzo |first=Brent |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8349-beaucoup-fish/ |title=Underworld: Beaucoup Fish |work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=13 April 1999 |access-date=9 January 2012}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev8score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Doyle |first=Tom |url=http://www.qonline.co.uk:80/reviews/server.asp?id=17510 |title=Underworld: Beaucoup Fish |magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |issue=151 |date=April 1999 |access-date=30 August 2018 |page=107 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990911201621/http://www.qonline.co.uk/reviews/server.asp?id=17510 |archive-date=11 September 1999 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev9score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite magazine |last=Walters |first=Barry |url=http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/underworld/albums/album/103848/rid/5940771/ |title=Underworld: Beaucoup Fish |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=29 April 1999 |access-date=17 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060509141624/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/underworld/albums/album/103848/rid/5940771/ |archive-date=9 May 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev10 = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev10score = 7/10<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Salomon |first=Jeff |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NXdfW9kpokC&pg=PT11 |title=Tomorrow's Classic Rock Today |magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |volume=15 |issue=4 |date=April 1999 |access-date=12 April 2017 |pages=157–58}}</ref>
}}
''Beaucoup Fish'' was well received by music critics and it continues to be Underworld's best selling album to date. It has a score of 79/100 on [[Metacritic]] based on 20 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".<ref name="metacritic1"/>

John Bush from [[AllMusic]] gave the album 4 out of 5 stars saying "the trio is still the best at welding obtuse songcraft onto an uncompromising techno framework and making both sound great".<ref name="allmusic1"/>

David Browne from ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' gave the album an A rating stating that ''Beaucoup Fish'' "gently tweaks the naysayers by demonstrating how many more places this music can wander, how it can grow and reinvent itself. Albums like this (and Fatboy Slim's kaleidoscopic ''You've Come a Long Way, Baby'') are comparable to Lauryn Hill's recent work in the way they make an overly familiar style of music seem vital again. In its own lush, detached manner, ''Beaucoup Fish'' is the rebirth of the cool."<ref name="autogenerated1"/>

John Wojtowicz from ''[[The Village Voice]]'' gave it a very favourable review saying it is "A shiny little appliance that fragments its 11 tracks into nearly as many subgenres, doing away with the seamless sprawl of their earlier records".<ref name="villagevoice1999">{{cite news |last=Wojtowicz |first=John |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/1999-04-20/music/gettin-slippy-wit-it/1/ |title=Gettin Slippy Wit It |work=[[The Village Voice]] |date=20 April 1999 |access-date=9 January 2012}}</ref>

''[[Rolling Stone]]'' gave it 3.5 stars out of 5 saying that "Their specialty is an undulating trance throb that shimmers with shades of rock, contemporary symphonics, dub, disco, house, spoken word, whatever. The result still sounds like Underworld, and the fiftieth play sounds better than the fifth".<ref name="RS"/>

''[[NME]]'' gave the album 8/10 saying that "Beaucoup Fish is a pure, seamless flow, pinned together with trance-techno beats that hark back to classic Detroit house and early Underworld singles like 'Cowgirl' and 'Spikee'" and also adding that "There are rare moments when even the longest albums feel like they should go on forever: this, emphatically, is one of them".<ref name="NME Album Reviews - Beaucoup Fish"/>
* ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' (4/99, pp.&nbsp;157–158) - 7 (out of 10) - "...the British trio hit on a formula that mixes {{sic|agression|expected=aggression}} and gibberish in just the right proportions..."<ref name="cduniversexx">{{cite web|url=http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1113170/a/Beaucoup+Fish.htm |title=Underworld - Beaucoup Fish CD Album |publisher=Cduniverse.com |date=2009-09-15 |access-date=2012-01-09}}</ref>
* [[Q (magazine)|''Q'']] (4/99, p.&nbsp;107) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...Beaucoup Fish finds them continuing down an individualistic path as they pull in strands from electronic influences such as Kraftwerk...Giorgio Moroder...and Yello..."<ref name="cduniversexx"/>
* ''[[Magnet (magazine)|Magnet]]'' (4/99, pp.&nbsp;81–82) - "...Rather than adopt the happy faces of house, the saintly roar of modern minimalist/classical, the bugged-out rhythms of drum 'n' bass or the sloped dope of dub, the first great album of '99 revels in all these styles....[Underworld] seems to be funkin' for nirvana..."<ref name="cduniversexx"/>
* ''[[Muzik]]'' (1/00, p.&nbsp;69) - "A brutal, bruising take on the band's unique techno template....the melodies were infectious as ever. Trance tunes, swirling basslines and stupendous piano chuggers..."<ref name="cduniversexx"/>
* [[CMJ]] (4/12/99, p.&nbsp;3) - "...showcases a more mature, album-oriented Underworld, travelling from over-the-top club maelstroms to ominous, gothic ballads to choppy, experimental rap..."<ref name="cduniversexx"/>
* [[Mojo (magazine)|''Mojo'']] (03/99, p.&nbsp;84) - "...BEAUCOUP FISH proves that the real deal with electronic music is not that it is fast and crazy....but allows for perfect recall of sounds and moments....music like Underworld's can have a texture as rich, emotive and individual as memory itself."<ref name="cduniversexx"/>

=== Accolades ===
* ''[[Muzik]]'' (1/00, p.&nbsp;69) - Ranked No. 10 in Muzik's "Albums of the Year '99"<ref name="cduniversexx" />
* [[CMJ]] (1/10/00, p.&nbsp;5) - Ranked No. 14 in CMJ's "Top 30 Editorial Picks [for 1999]."<ref name="cduniversexx" />
* [[Mojo (magazine)|''Mojo'']] (1/00, p.&nbsp;30) - Ranked No. 18 in Mojo Magazine's "Best of 1999"<ref name="cduniversexx" />

===2017 reissue===
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = ''[[The Line of Best Fit]]''
| rev1score = 7.5/10<ref name="lineofbest">{{cite web |last=Todd |first=Chris |url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/reviews/albums/underworld-beaucoup-fish-reissue |title=Underworld's bizarre breakthrough sounds just as weirdly brilliant on its 18th birthday |work=[[The Line of Best Fit]] |date=1 September 2017 |access-date=3 September 2017}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Louder Than War (website)|Louder Than War]]''
| rev2score = 8.5/10<ref name="louderthanwar">{{cite web |last=Tucker |first=Simon |url=http://louderthanwar.com/underworld-beaucoup-fish-reissue-review/ |title=Underworld: Beaucoup Fish – reissue review |work=[[Louder Than War (website)|Louder Than War]] |date=8 September 2017 |access-date=10 September 2017}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev3score = 7.4/10<ref name="pf2017">{{cite web |last=Sherburne |first=Philip |author-link=Philip Sherburne |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/underworld-beaucoup-fish/ |title=Underworld: Beaucoup Fish |work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=28 August 2017 |access-date=28 August 2017}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[PopMatters]]''
| rev4score = 9/10<ref name="popmatters">{{cite web |last=Schiller |first=Mike |url=https://www.popmatters.com/review/underworld-beaucoup-fish-super-deluxe-edition/ |title=Underworld: Beaucoup Fish (Super Deluxe Edition) |work=[[PopMatters]] |date=28 September 2017 |access-date=16 October 2017}}</ref>
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In 2017 the album was reissued, with expanded 2-LP vinyl and 4-CD editions. ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''{{'}}s [[Philip Sherburne]] dismissed the two remix CDs as "mainly of interest to collectors" and the alternate takes as "not much more essential" in an otherwise positive review.<ref name="pf2017" /> Chris Todd of ''[[The Line of Best Fit]]'' similarly pans the extra discs, but calls the original album "weirdly brilliant."<ref name="lineofbest" />