Burial

It's the whole "elegy for Omni Trio" bizniz that I don't get - if anything this is (at its best) a cross b/w early dubstep and the more musical/emotional techstep a la the first Dom & Roland album.

pot, kettle

Hooray! ;-)

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.

I think this is the cruellest comment I've seen Ned make yet.

It was ok, but not much melody or anything else gripping for me, I couldn't make it through the whole thing.

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.

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.

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"?

Once Blogger is back up and running, I will deliver a more persuasive argument for you purchasing the Burial album.

i don't understand why he would even mention tricky.
i don't understand why he would even mention Goldie.

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."

Good job on the Burial, Marcello. And I might buy that Ishiguro on the way home from work.

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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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".

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.

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?

https://burial.bandcamp.com/track/unknown-summer

Lovely as always. The Kode 9 song is a belter too.

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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.

the last three minutes of "Boy Sent From Above"..... jfc

"boy sent from above" is the best thing he's done in a decade

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.

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.

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.

what happened here? did he have a good day or something?

love it obvs. thanks B for the new display name

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.

relistening to the new tunes again and guys this question comes from a place of pure respect-

anyway, does burial make musical fan fiction?

you guys like the other side but i really dig this dreamfear!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wooh1L8c-Q

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

err, "Boroughs"

Is he doing a performance in London, did I read that?

Spotify told me that was the case but think it's the metal band with the same name

Could be some good crossover fans though

Reminds me of the time my mate accidentally saw the play Titus Andronicus

actual lol at your friend, thank you for that

https://burial.bandcamp.com/album/phoneglow-eyes-go-blank

"phoneglow" is quite nice

From the Hyperdub mailing list:

A new single from Burial is out today, in time for the summer.
Available on streaming services everywhere from Friday Midnight wherever you are:

https://burial.lnk.to/Comafields

awww yeah

"comafields" is alright and fairly distinct in style but "imaginary festival" is a bit dull

I think "Comafields" is great but yeah, kinda agree about "Imaginary Festival"

Comafields is very Good Burial.

I actually have come around to “Imaginary Festival”, it is soft and somber and vaguely threatening, reminds me of what I like best about his more ambient stuff

Ehh

it’s cool, yall are just wrong

to the naysayers i say “take a toke and drive at night with it blasting on a cool late summer evening”

"unite" is classic, but kind of a deep cut by now. i know it from the soul jazz compilation box of dub ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIfJVR_XSEc
"unite" (2007)