New Burial album. More info?

at the time I think would actually be leveling that accusation more at the entire genre than at burial in particular.

although lately i've been coming around to dubstep quite a bit more. i think it was repeat listens to scuba's post-electro almost-ambient-techno tracks ("brown", "twista", "harpoon"), distance's "my demons" album and kode 9's incredible "magnetic city" that got me there.

i might give burial a 2nd chance, as long as it's less lame atmospherics (qawwali singing and blues loops? do you people listen to peace orchestra too?) and more scissory 2-step beats (loved "unite"!)

that was xpost to jermainetwo

for the record, my favourite burial thing is his remix of jamie woon's "wayfaring stranger".

at least, until i heard this "unknown remix" on thisisnotanexit's latest mix, that i'm listening to for the first time right now.

up on http://www.bleep.com/

you can stream but no dl til the 5th

'archangel' really is terrific.

i like this one more than the first one even after only a couple listens

i haven't been this excited for an album for a long time. it's going to be so hard to resist downloading it before the cd comes in the mail.

leaked!

leaked? i saw it in the store two days ago...

i think the vocal sample on the opening track "untitled" is from "INLAND EMPIRE". i wasn't too fussed about the first record but from the stream (that doesn't stream) on bleep this sounds incredibly great. really looking forward to it.

Loving it on first listen, in particular 'Archangel' and 'Etched Headplate', although the ghostly diva thing can wear a bit thin listening to the whole thing in one sitting. Also cool how 'Raver' flirts with minimal house.

yeah this album is really really good if you don't mind the fact that it's fairly homogenous

i think the title track is my favorite right now

Where is it Oink when I need it ... Argh.

good album to bang to

"ghostly diva" tpp otm. a real letdown.

Where is it Oink when I need it ... Argh.

-- Mr. Goodman, Saturday, November 3, 2007 8:04 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

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OK, this is good.

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=61615

MP3 and FLAC release for those of you unwilling to wait till Tuesday.

(For a legal download that is.)

Feeling this one.

It arrived in the post today. Only heard it once yet, don't know whether I'll like it more or less than the first one, but it feels like more of an album than the "a loose collection of partial tunes you might hear from open windows while walking through a city night" concept of the debut.

'shell of light' has a very pretty, sentimental outro - strikes me as a sincere celebration of the breadth of pop emotionalism (like all the studio remixes do).

still encourage all to check out the 'thisisnotanexit' exclusive remix thing.

oh my GOODNESS i am loving this. perfect for the end of daylight saving, huh

takes flight and carries right on where the first album left off in an upwardly mobile progression...

...don't know if i could go a third album with them same drums and would love to hear someone like reso, toasty, boxcutter or elemental fuck with a tune or three

loops nicely and quietly in the background while doing some late night 'puter work though...

...i likes it

i wonder why he changed the original 'homeless' to 'dog shelter' and called another tune 'homeless' ???

Archangel wins.

Did anyone hear his Bloc Party remix yet?

was thinking of cloning the burial sound and putting it out there as a 'lost' leak track just for laughs...

...but i imagine he'll probably do it himself

Lofi but nice sample of that Bloc Party remix:

http://www.exlibris.ch/vinyl.aspx?status=detail&p_id=1473647&t_na=CPV

turns out the untitled remix I was referring to above *is* the bloc party remix... it's really great.

the one on thisisnotanexit's mix? wow

i assume bloc party sounds nothing at all similar to that?

No, not at all. They're an uptempo rock band.

"art-punkers Bloc Party mix angular sonics with pop structures." (from AMG)

cheers for that thisisnotanexit tip, jermainetwo. (much better sounding & longer than that record store sample)

i'll be looking forward to the "high-tech darkside" album he put off to do this one. it is lovely tender, though.

The album suddenly clicked for me, first thought it was a bit samey and maybe kinda boring even, but last night, in the dark, with headphones, it just, wow.

Very samey, very boring. One track sounds almost identical to a track on the debut (I mean, even within the extremely narrow confines of this guy's style it was like "have a second idea please").

There's a digital release for that Bloc Party remix too, by the way (£0.79, available from Monday)

http://www.7digital.com/artists/bloc-party/flux-(1)/

copy & paste that whole line (or click the second of the four identical yellow/black covers you see there)

I emailed bleep and the flac release is delayed for a few days on their site. I guess I could buy it on boomkat, but my american dollars are not so great for such a thing.

i liked him before he started playing the PR game and doing broadsheet interviews.

-- titchyschneiderMk2

Are you from the planet Assclown?

Yes, base your opinions on music on irrelevant extra-musical factors, well done.

And he's done about 3 interviews and they all pretty much cover the same ground and he's preserving his anonymity. So either way you have no point.

Concerning that 7digital download I bought: it's a DRM protected WMA file, which I didn't know in advance (I wouldn't have bothered then), but the "license this file" button (which only works in Internet Explorer because they use some ActiveX crap) doesn't do anything. Why it doesn't work, I have no idea, I only know I've paid for something I can't listen to. No idea how I can solve this either, there's no help on there for when the button doesn't work.

I didn't really feel much of the first one but I'm loving this. More vocal snippets = a good thing in by book.

i dunno man, demoting todd the god to an archangel seems a little rude.

yeah this is def better than the first one, though he does still seem to a lot of the old windtunnel brrrrrm and then i dunno, echo woodblocking his 2steps so they sound like footsteps. but yknow i have tried to clear my mind and let myself fall under burial's alleged spell, and then i resd something like this

i wonder why he changed the original 'homeless' to 'dog shelter' and called another tune 'homeless' ???

-- pollywog

and how am i not supposed to crease up? truly dread to think of the sheer acreage of skunk i'd have to get through before my face got as po as some's.

I hadn't noticed that, perhaps because I'd been spending so long wondering why there are two tracks called 'Untitled'.

Yay, 7digital solved the problem & I've got the Bloc Party wma now. I know it's still pretty new, but I think I can safely say that for the second year in a row, a Burial remix is my favourite track of the year.

Hmm yes all the Burial crit keeps on piling up in front of Burial's music barring the way.

In retrospect I think what allowed me to embrace Horsepower Productions' genteel garage so wholeheartedly 5/6 years ago was the fact that even then very few people had cottoned on to the notion of taking any garage that seriously, and even yr Hyperdubs had a much more clear-headed approach to writing about the stuff.

i dont like this anywhere near as much as the first album so far. he seems to be trying to make his music more danceable this time or use more conventional 2 step rhythms so half the album seems stuck with virtually the exact same drum programming on every song. which is fine, but it leaves this kinda between home listening and a very weird sort of more conventional 2 step production style, without really satisfying either side. he was more inventive IMO when he had fractured 2 step programming, rather than trying to go UKG-proper. apart from that, it just doesnt seem as affecting as the last one. arch angel isnt as good as people keep saying, mainly cos the vocals (which are a bit shit to begin with) are so clean - it doesnt fit the music right. the vocals only really work when he manipulates and fucks around with them a bit, and layers and cuts them into the track directly. maybe my opinion will change when i hear it a few more times but it seems to use a lot of techniques/familiar sounds from the last one, just not as effectively.

"Are you from the planet Assclown?"

are you kode 9?

Hugely superior to the first album. What isn't hugely superior is the fact that the vinyl is badly pressed. http://dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=31755&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

I would be legitimately annoyed about this if I hadn't bought it from a shop where one of my best mate's works and so I won't be ridiculed for returning a Burial album because it's "hissy".

- apostrophe after mate