Burial

IT'S HERE:
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/burial-just-dropped-a-new-ep-and-hot-damn-is-it-good

Or more importantly, here's where you can actually buy it:
http://www.hyperdub.net/releases/view/207/HDB069

GOOD TRY MR. VICE STREET TEAM

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.

rough sleeper is fantastic!

They're both fantastic. There's very few producers who can come with a similar sound every time and not get boring

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.

Feels like a mini-album of many short tracks. Took a few listens to get into, but I do love this now.

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.

"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

On first listen I think Truant sounds a lot more interesting. Most of Rough Sleeper is kind of rote.

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.

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.

was pretty bored by these tracks myself

So is there anything to this?: http://equalizermag.com/news/four-tet-confirms-he-is-burial/

Or does everyone know this already?

ha, this really seems like bullshit.

I didn't know it but a friend said he was told back in 2007.

Hebden talks about his "collaboration" with Burial in this Pitchfork interview from 2010:

http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/7752-four-tet/

otoh that equalizer website seems like a joke website so

http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/latest-news/is-burial-actually-four-tet-hoax-resurfaces-online-128103

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

http://i.imgur.com/ACq6Ija.jpg

Ha.

I'd kind of like this to be true, but it seems unlikely.

https://twitter.com/FourTet/status/347672091333644288

nice try four tet we know you're burial. don't try to pretend you're not.

I've seen people link various news from Equalizemag.com, but that site appears to be like The Onion for electronic music, i.e. it consists of nothing but parody news.

This item from the same site was making the rounds a couple of weeks ago, and people seemed to believe that too.

I doubt anyone believed this one, though:

http://equalizermag.com/news/unreleased-boards-of-canada-7-inch-discovered-beneath-feces-at-dog-park/

also 'james blake to launch line of organic cotton shirts' made me lol inexplicably hard

me TOO

i like that there is a version of the onion for electronic music news. i don't like that it isn't very funny, or doesn't seem to be.

http://store.massiveattack.com/landing-page/massive-attack-v-burial-digital.html

yeah man, that's a cool release

Available digitally for the first time, it's also one of the first items on Massive Attack's new web store.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1JzK424lawM

Incidentally I know someone that actually SAW sisqo perform live recently.

http://www.factmag.com/2013/12/02/burial-announces-new-three-track-ep-for-hyperdub-out-december/

Good news, the last few eps have been probably his best work imo.

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Daniel OTM

Good

'Ashtray Wasp' now his greatest song IMO

That bit where the riff comes in quietly at about 1.45 is one of my favourite ever bits where a riff comes in

And that cycling bit at about 3.16

And yeah - it is ashtray wasp that has that bit at 8.00 where it turns into a weird glam groove in a scary sad mist and goes 'Darkness falls upon me' (or is it flies? lies?)

That's a bit of burial I'm always looking for and always forgetting which song it's in

Dunno about anyone else, but I think negative emotions are extremely difficult to put into a piece of music that you'd actually (honestly) want to listen to, it requires a pitch-perfect sensibility to avoid turning into parody – Burial today one of the few people who can do this?

Ashtray Wasp also has the really sad submerged jazz ending

It doesn't get sadder than In McDonalds does it lads?
"You look different"

^ ^ ^

knew there was a special reason for my morningwood today.

'Ashtray Wasp' now his greatest song IMO

rough sleeper for me, tho ashtray wasp gets extra points for sampling cheap-trick.