Burial

'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.

http://youtu.be/vBoTdWSYleI

gettin' pStoked, raming up for the new one.

errritt.. RAMPING up for it?

Earlier today, http://www.theorchard.co.uk/release/888003991057/burial/rival-dealer was taken down. It contained this info:
" 23 dec. 2013 - UPC: 888003991057. Tracklisting. 1. Rival Dealer. 2. Hiders. 3. Come Down to Us "

Guessing the date might be the physical release since digital was going to be next week (Dec 16th)

Good.

Never know what to say when anticipating something.

El-B's Serious is a tune by the way – I think it gets mentioned as a possible Burial influence upthread

possible sample of the title track

sounds, superficially at least, like burial, but it's a lot more aggressive than the other recent work. again, if it's genuine.

okay, so possible samples of all three songs from the new ep. not convinced these are genuine, but they certainly could be.

http://www.hyperdub.net/releases/view/258/HDB080

that title track is fantastic. and with the second-half of that song, he's still experimenting with longer, weirder, more ambient song-structures (like he did on the truant/rough-sleeper ep).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd3Ch53PxBs&feature=share&list=UUNvfjGiZOuh78KYMojvugeQ&index=5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1bb2JakOmo&feature=share&list=UUNvfjGiZOuh78KYMojvugeQ&index=5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY0FLh2EIfs&feature=share&list=UUNvfjGiZOuh78KYMojvugeQ

the beginning of hiders reminds me a little of david foster's instrumental theme to st. elmo's fire? but i really dig it, especially as it builds to something almost rock-ish sounding.

this ep feels like a fairly big departure (into interesting directions) to me. initial impression is that this ep is one of the best things i've heard this year.

St. Elmo's Fire meets To Live and Die in LA -- Foster/Wang Chung soundclash.

yeah!

um, two of the three official mp3s are called ... - Burlal - ...

and it's... wow... different but great

wow

yeah. it's pop-ish at points. the fact magazine insta-review got a lot of things wrong, in my view, but they finished with an interesting discussion about subject-matter that might be embedded in the subtext of the EP.

man the full-on dream pop in the first half of Come Down To Us is just gorgeous

fairly sure if you combined burial's two 2013-ish EPs into a single album, it would be my favorite of the year.

i love how some of the snare sounds on this will probably be most divisive thing about it. but it's poppy and weird and gorgeous.

i'm loving this. i feel like there've been glimpses of burial approaching something resembling pop/house in the last two, little melodious rave-y suites we hear snatches of here and there, but nothing as fully fleshed out as on this one.

omg such bangers!!

it's almost a little weird to hear burial acknowledge relatively recent sounds (sampling auto-tuned vox, 16th note hi-hats), but that quickly gets subsumed into the dream-pop thing and overall burialness.

more like boringal

MODED

OMG, edgy (xpost)

I wonder if they released it early so it wouldn't be too near Mandela's burial.

"Hiders" >>> "Rival Dealer"

Hiders is insane

the whole ep is insanely good.

yeah, these are off putting, right off.. good to see he's fucking around with the formula though. might need some headphones for these, and a proper format.

The first bit of melody on 'Come Down To Us' - I think that's a rhodes piano with some autotuned vocals over it? – is really sentimental and cheesy but the way its been looped makes it have loads of pathos

Sounds like the sound-loops you hear ringing out as mobile phone ringtones and on adverts? Anyone else feel this?

Does this mean he isn't Four Tet anymore?

best person in the game right now, greatest artist in the world, and I mean artist

the tom fill at 2:43 in 'hiders' is funniest thing ever to happen on a burial record

best person in the game right now, greatest artist in the world, and I mean artist

totally agree with this.

I love this EP. Not expecting this turn at all, and it's all the better for it.

is this ep going to be made available on itunes in the us?