Underneath is a studio album by The Verve Pipe, released in 2001.[2] Produced by Adam Schlesinger, the album's power-pop sound was a departure from the darker, textured sonics of The Verve Pipe and Villains. "Never Let You Down", the album's lead single, was one of the Top 50 Most Played songs for Adult Top 40 and Modern A/C radio in 2001.
Critical reception[]
Billboard praised the album's turn to "power-pop territory," and wrote that singer Brian Vander Ark "has never sounded more like Peter Gabriel, and we mean that in a good way."[6] The South Bend Tribune wrote that "Vander Ark writes five of the songs on Underneath, and drummer Donny Brown writes four of them, and the differences between them help to make Underneath a constantly shifting tilt of emotions and, probably, a much better album than if just one of them had been the main songwriter."[7] The Detroit Free Press called the album "the best stuff the group has concocted in half a decade."[8]
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