cliched Burial listening: this was lovely in the London rain the other night.
― kraudive, Sunday, 19 February 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
Best spot in London to listen to Burial is under the bridge near Finsbury Park station, I've found. Particularly when waiting for a heavily-delayed night bus.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Sunday, 19 February 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
I know the place - used to be a spot I frequented often when I first moved to London.
"The other night" I was on the DLR from Canning Town to Woolwich. Pretty perfect also.
― kraudive, Sunday, 19 February 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
I can't wait to get the vinyl of this to see how it is HMMsupposedHMM to sound. I like it enough at the moment but the bass on my earphones is lacking - esp. in the first minutes of the first track.
― kraudive, Sunday, 19 February 2012 23:18 (twelve years ago) link
Kindred the track is kind of catchy for an 11 minute ambient opus with no more than fragmented melodies.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Sunday, 19 February 2012 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
this is the most boring new music i have heard this week
― if u leave imma crank wu-tang in my black matte truck (lex pretend), Friday, February 17, 2012 3:33 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark
― illuminati girl (J0rdan S.), Monday, 20 February 2012 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
I like "Loner" best.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 February 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
it's the danciest one
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 February 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
Burial listeners all seem to spend their entire lives waiting in the rain for a night bus that never comes.
― Tim F, Monday, 20 February 2012 01:11 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it's kind of like hearing a big trance anthem coming from a distant room in a haunted house you're lost in.
xpost
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 20 February 2012 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
xp this is also what living in london is like
― judith, Monday, 20 February 2012 09:18 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, February 20, 2012 1:12 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the trouble is people who think that the distant room/haunted house stuff is necessary for big trance anthems to be interesting
― lex pretend, Monday, 20 February 2012 09:29 (twelve years ago) link
In fairness if you go clubbing in London regularly you end up doing this A LOT.
I haven't heard this record yet and don't have much interest in doing so but pretty sure there are better battle lines to pick than Campaign For Real Trance.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Monday, 20 February 2012 09:52 (twelve years ago) link
― lex pretend, Monday, February 20, 2012 9:29 AM (2 hours ago)
Trance is a genre I generally find quite uninteresting without some kind of twist. Sorry about that.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 20 February 2012 12:22 (twelve years ago) link
The skips and cut outs on the track 'Ashtray Wasp' are intentional.
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Monday, 20 February 2012 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
Is that a sample of "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" in Ashtray Wasp?
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
New track with Four Tet: http://soundcloud.com/four-tet/burial-four-tet-nova
― Humperdin C.K. (seandalai), Monday, 5 March 2012 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks! How did you know so quickly after it was uploaded?
― StanM, Monday, 5 March 2012 09:28 (twelve years ago) link
I've only heard Kindred off of this so far. Personally find it incredible, especially turned right up on decent cans. Especially, yes, walking under overcast skies as I did on Sunday. It's long, but it's definitely set into three distinct movements. The most effective trick is that "lightning crash" that sounds like it's made up of several sounds clustered together, and the way the vocal samples seem to form around these - there's an awful lot of tension - pressure in the meteorological sense of the word.
― Alexandre Dumbass (dog latin), Monday, 5 March 2012 10:57 (twelve years ago) link
StanM: I am Burial obv. Actually I saw it on a friend's Facebook feed...
― Humperdin C.K. (seandalai), Monday, 5 March 2012 12:50 (twelve years ago) link
:-)
http://pitchfork.com/news/45633-listen-burial-four-tet-nova/
Well that's a surprise: Four Tet has tweeted a Soundcloud link to a collaboration he did with Burial titled "Nova". The tweet also included "TEXT013," implying the song will be the 13th release on Four Tet's Text Records imprint.
― StanM, Monday, 5 March 2012 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
Ah, that's what Kindred reminds me of - Dwr Budr by Orbital.
― Alexandre Dumbass (dog latin), Monday, 5 March 2012 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2012/03/07/hyperdub-to-release-burial-eps-on-cd/
― StanM, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
I noticed this was available in Japan already. Was hoping it would get a full release.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
This comp will actually be the best Burial album, I think.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
Loner!
― Virtual Bart (EDB), Monday, 19 March 2012 09:21 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, thanks for the heads up on this, pre-ordered it straight away.
― phuturephase, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2012/06/26/stream-samples-of-dusk-blackdowns-next-single-on-keysound-remind-you-of-anyone/http://thequietus.com/articles/09170-listen-new-burial-dusk-blackdown-keysound
― StanM, Friday, 29 June 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
Idgi. Are they suggesting Blackdown is Burial? I thought we already knew who Burial was?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
It's credited as Dusk + Blackdown +
the second + being Burial
― Number None, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
ahhh
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 5 July 2012 04:34 (eleven years ago) link
There's a new single
― azaera, Monday, 3 December 2012 09:09 (eleven years ago) link
Please please please be a Christmas single
― ILM Communication (seandalai), Monday, 3 December 2012 12:54 (eleven years ago) link
Or at least get the xmas number 1 spot via a Facebook campaign.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 3 December 2012 13:02 (eleven years ago) link
60-second clips (can't listen at work). Probably hard to judge based on these, I imagine.
http://www.factmag.com/2012/12/12/stream-clips-of-burials-new-ep-truant-rough-sleeper-a-k-a-one-two/
― azaera, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
I'm enjoying just letting the two clips loop endlessly
― Brakhage, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
IT'S HERE:http://noisey.vice.com/blog/burial-just-dropped-a-new-ep-and-hot-damn-is-it-good
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Friday, 14 December 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
Or more importantly, here's where you can actually buy it:http://www.hyperdub.net/releases/view/207/HDB069
― mh, Friday, 14 December 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
GOOD TRY MR. VICE STREET TEAM
― mh, Friday, 14 December 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
Bought it last night, listened to it a few times with errrr 'suitable' accompaniment...not sure what to make of it yet, feels/is more framgented than we're used to from him. Some of those fragments are lush, almost-housey in their bounce, others are Burial-by-numbers spectral washes with that chain on metal sound he loves. One of the sections samples some late 90s/early00s dance track that's super obvious but I can't quite place it for some reason.
We put on the Kindred EP straight after and I've got to admit that it made this new one sound a bit slight.
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Saturday, 15 December 2012 10:17 (eleven years ago) link
rough sleeper is fantastic!
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Saturday, 15 December 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
They're both fantastic. There's very few producers who can come with a similar sound every time and not get boring
― paolo, Saturday, 15 December 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
I find "Truant" to be the stronger track. They're both messier and 'sketchier' than his previous releases (including "Ashtray Wasp"). "Rough Sleeper" has some great passages, but it's a bit of a mess as a whole, with some parts more successful than others.
But the build up and sequencing of the first eight and a half minutes of "Truant" are breathtaking... Bevan has a great sense of drama. The segment between 3:50 and 5:13 is some of the best work he's done. I might lazily describe it as Indo-Caribbean Futurism (?) that only could've come out of the UK. It easily gives Shackleton a run for his money. The track sounds a bit like an evolution of the aesthetics of "Fostercare".
A bit of a mixed bag as a whole. Still a worthy effort, though. Would love to see a proper album built on some of the ideas heard here and on Kindred.
― azaera, Saturday, 15 December 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
Feels like a mini-album of many short tracks. Took a few listens to get into, but I do love this now.
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Sunday, 16 December 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
I sort of agree with that 'mini-album' comment. Each track does seem to have 2 or 3 distinct sections. The first time I listened I thought the tracks had changed but they hadn't.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 16 December 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
"Rough Sleeper" has some great passages
well that's what happened to me. one particular passage in Rough Sleeper is in loop in my head. the perfect soundtrack for the rainy saturday
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Sunday, 16 December 2012 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
On first listen I think Truant sounds a lot more interesting. Most of Rough Sleeper is kind of rote.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 17 December 2012 13:31 (eleven years ago) link
This thing's a grower.
Still not quite sure what to make of the whole organ segment of "Rough Sleeper". There's little as far as momentum to the beat and not really an ambient feel either; kind of stuck somewhere in the middle. But god do things pick up after that. The "light surrounding you" vocals and the chimes are such a welcome new direction.
And "Truant" is still a stunner.
― azaera, Monday, 7 January 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
feels like the most refined, 'pop' thing he's done. even if it's a complex series of developing sections or movements. even if he's using a chintz-y lexicon unit to pitch his sounds. don't really consider myself a burial fan, but i've played this new one(two) endlessly. nice to have such frequent, and increasingly varied output from somebody.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
was pretty bored by these tracks myself
― beard papa, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 00:31 (eleven years ago) link