― jewess harvell (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― jewess harvell (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 00:16 (seventeen years ago) link
I think Paul Autonomic's (great) mix might be all the Dubstep I really need this month to listen to at home. Also, I just don't think I'm in the mood for any more gloom & despair at this precise moment.
― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 00:56 (seventeen years ago) link
I think this is the cruellest comment I've seen Ned make yet.
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 02:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― hector (hector), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 02:52 (seventeen years ago) link
It was ok, but not much melody or anything else gripping for me, I couldn't make it through the whole thing.
― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 03:02 (seventeen years ago) link
First thing that has to be stated is that this isn't a straight up dubstep album. It can't be, there's far too many clever rhythmic and
melodic twists and turns to keep it held down by something as trivial as genre or style. He takes dubstep's distinctive motif's (warping b-lines, downward drums, silent gaps) and furnishes incredibly layered pieces of futurist funk.
The eastern sunrise opener of 'Tauhid' might be weighted down with swathes of sub. But, like the rest of the album, there's a light footprint to it all. Even the murky, out-of-focus echo of 'Skuff'd' seems to have a spring in its step. Whilst bass-heads will find solace in darker moments like the magnificent 'Brood'. The rest of us will find this a seasonally apt piece of accomplished electronic music.
― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 03:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I agree that the album ain't straight-up dubstep (although it basically is in parts - the weakest parts ha) but the second half of this statement is ridiculoid.
The beats at their best are better than most current dubstep but not all (and generally not as good as first-wave Horspower/El-B etc. for the sake of an easy comparison) - the focus here is really the texturological side of tings, the heaviness of the synths and samples which gives the music a physicality not in the sense of groove, but in the sense of it feeling physically tangible, like you're gonna get damp if you listen to the tracks with rain sounds.
Still think it's an amazing EP masquerading as a decent album.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 05:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 05:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 09:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link
that comment pretty much makes me want to avoid this album even though i am intrigued. i am very resistant to this premature canonization stuff. was "timeless" critically reviled on it's release? i recall reading a few recent posts here that tear it apart pretty well, but "ought to have been"?
― breakfast pants (disco stu), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Once Blogger is back up and running, I will deliver a more persuasive argument for you purchasing the Burial album.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
i don't understand why he would even mention tricky.i don't understand why he would even mention Goldie.
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― artdamages (artdamages), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― rtccc (mwah), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 1 June 2006 07:53 (seventeen years ago) link
In any event I have divided the passage up into digestible lines, and the Burial piece is now up for lovers of "nonsensical flowery prose."
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 1 June 2006 08:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Good job on the Burial, Marcello. And I might buy that Ishiguro on the way home from work.
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 1 June 2006 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link
three paragraphs of deeply gross classist handwringing about the "working class" - do you really only see "wretchedness" every time you see someone in the lowest tax bracket? and i like this one: "they are given the illusion of education and enlightenment" - aren't you also culpable? why are you so willing to see the education of "people who work in call-centre servitude" as illusion?
followed by five paragraphs of blogging about blogging.
followed by several paragraphs of vaguely musicological nonsense:
"record looks and feels like something unofficial, unauthorised; an urgent samizdat, a desperate plea from an ending world, an artefact whose emotions are so necessary to communicate that packaging would constitute both delay and distraction."
dude, it looks like any techstep album from the early 2000s!!
"The beats are too shadowed and distant for dancing; this music is to be felt in other parts of the soul as well as listened to"
yuck, stale IDM rhetoric pt 9,000,000
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― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link
anyway you should be apologizing to ME, i've worked in a call center and i don't think you should be calling me "wretched".
― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm wondering if the relative unoriginality of the cover makes it any less powerful if you're coming to it with a fresh mind? In isolation I think it's a great cover.
I think Marcello was just trying to avoid the pat, idiotic "this is more of a listening album y'know" staple than reinforce IDM cliches. Though they are annoying, I'll take the anything over the former, and I think the latter is almost dead for anyone but sheltered "alternative music" fans by 2006.
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
who doesn't use stale IDM rhetoric these days, vahid?
i second the faux-dubstep album - but isn't that what Various Productions is trying to do?
― natedey (ndeyoung), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Thursday, 1 June 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link
marcello you made the ishiguro sound worth checking out. it sounds like a zenned out cross between houellebecq and murakami.
― breakfast pants (disco stu), Thursday, 1 June 2006 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Techstep did this too (this is part of the similarity) but the speed and the shameless use of breakdowns and climaxes gave it a sense of a broken machine spiralling out of control. With dubstep - slower and seemingly suspicious of the notion of song dynamic - that never happens.
The Dom & Roland Industry comparison makes a lot of sense for me, above and beyond the fact that Industry is definitely my favourite techstep album. I think Burial beats out Dom & Roland on the texture front, the warp and weave of the samples etc. But D&R beats out Burial on the beats/grooves front because, even when it's basically a straightforward 2-step groove (maybe 4 tracks or so), there's a real energy and intensity to the groove, a friction between the physicality of the beats and the lush mournfulness of the textures and melodies - when this is combined with an excitingly syncopated rhythm (on tracks like "Thunder", "Chained On Both Sides" and especially the peerless "Elektra") it's unstoppable.
It's clear that Burial can construct excitingly syncopated rhythms and on the best tracks that's what he does, but frequently he still sounds caught within dubstep's horizon of wounded undynamic grooves, like a post-Timbaland version of the leaden, lumpen boom-bap which drags down so much comparable downtempo.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 1 June 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link
OTM. i just cannot get as excited about this as other things going on.
― trees (treesessplode), Thursday, 1 June 2006 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Finney's comments are akin to criticising Saint Etienne for not being Menswear.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 2 June 2006 06:43 (seventeen years ago) link
NB 1. I don't have an issue with rhythms sounding like broken machines. It's just that ideally a broken machine should sound, well, dangerous, rather than merely, well mildly impaired.
NB 2. I'm not saying that the entire album suffers from this, only about half.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:11 (seventeen years ago) link
can someone finish this? industry is to blade runner as burial is to ... ? artificial intelligence??
― breakfast pants (disco stu), Friday, 2 June 2006 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― jewess harvell (dubplatestyle), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Ambient medley Burial is nice and all but bring back beat-based Burial, let's be real.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 21 October 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
https://burial.bandcamp.com/track/unknown-summer
― StanM, Friday, 21 July 2023 04:43 (nine months ago) link
Lovely as always. The Kode 9 song is a belter too.
― Psychocandy Apple Grey (Pyschocandles), Sunday, 23 July 2023 02:22 (nine months ago) link
pic.twitter.com/bA6LVFCRMd— XL RECORDINGS (@XLRECORDINGS) January 1, 2024
― ufo, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 02:23 (four months ago) link
https://questionmarqdj.bandcamp.com/track/distant-lights-quest-onmarq-bootleg-burial
I really enjoy quest?onmarq's bootleg remixes of the classic material, I just wish this was longer and faster to fit in with my current mix.
― pattern loader, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 10:20 (four months ago) link
the last three minutes of "Boy Sent From Above"..... jfc
― Murgatroid, Saturday, 20 January 2024 19:02 (three months ago) link
"boy sent from above" is the best thing he's done in a decade
― ufo, Saturday, 20 January 2024 22:30 (three months ago) link
co-sign. very good.
(other side is not bad)
elsewhere: great way to tease new music in the streaming era. all those unauthorized fan uploads on youtube had to have been expected by xl; subvert everything.
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Sunday, 21 January 2024 00:09 (three months ago) link
revisiting his past year or so of tunes because of this and i have to say how much i've come to like 'unknown summer.' it's such a subtle slow burning joy of a track+ufo i have to challenge your assertion that it doesn't at least compete with 'boy sent from above' in that category.
(let us also not forget the thom yorke collabs, but i digress; 'boy sent from above' a very significant tune)
further, the few stray non-hyperdub tracks from the past few years -'temple sleeper', 'pre dawn'+'indoors'- are all pretty neat in retrospect of this new material for xl.
hi. my name is austin+i ♡ burial.
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Sunday, 21 January 2024 00:49 (three months ago) link
Definitely my favorite Burial in a while, and I say that as a staunch fan and apologist for ambient Burial and the very underrated Antidawn EP. I liked Chemz / Dolphinz and Streetlands, too, though not as much.
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 21 January 2024 01:35 (three months ago) link
what happened here? did he have a good day or something?
― what you say is true but by no means (lukas), Monday, 22 January 2024 22:42 (three months ago) link
love it obvs. thanks B for the new display name
― default damager (lukas), Monday, 22 January 2024 22:43 (three months ago) link
I mean he has the perfect career, doesn't have to tour or do interviews, still makes a lot of money from records (and syncs), everyone respects him, I sure hope he's happy now.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2024 22:46 (three months ago) link
relistening to the new tunes again and guys this question comes from a place of pure respect-
anyway, does burial make musical fan fiction?
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 01:57 (three months ago) link
you guys like the other side but i really dig this dreamfear!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wooh1L8c-Q
― scott seward, Saturday, 10 February 2024 18:31 (three months ago) link
so cool.
South London Burroughs getting another reissue, at last. The fact that it's a "20th anniversary" release makes me feel ancient.
https://burial.bandcamp.com/album/south-london-boroughs
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 12:32 (one month ago) link
err, "Boroughs"
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 12:33 (one month ago) link
Is he doing a performance in London, did I read that?
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 13:37 (one month ago) link
Spotify told me that was the case but think it's the metal band with the same name
― nxd, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 13:56 (one month ago) link
Could be some good crossover fans though
Reminds me of the time my mate accidentally saw the play Titus Andronicus
― nxd, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 13:57 (one month ago) link
actual lol at your friend, thank you for that
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 14:09 (one month ago) link