Burial

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?

it's stateside street date is on the 17th, so it'll likely be up then.

burial has basically surprised me with every release. thank god for that dude.

this sounds aight

as someone with v little time for burial in general, these are the first burial tracks i've wanted to play again since "archangel". a christmas coming out story, huh

The second half of 'Come Down to Us' is...its like an ascension to heaven or something. The moment when that lone voices says "I saw myself crying" jesus christ

*lone voice ffs

this sounds aight

― the late great, Thursday, 12 December 2013 02:31 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

as someone with v little time for burial in general, these are the first burial tracks i've wanted to play again since "archangel". a christmas coming out story, huh

― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 December 2013 08:29 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

concur

seems he has become a p decent successor to dj shadow all in all

I feel a bit like I'm being trolled by Burial on those last two tracks.

these are kinda terrible imo. i mean not in a way that affronts me, they're like p much his usual sound with an "innovation" of some faintly pop elements which are sort of jarring or bordering on silly. all sounds like the weeknd too.

I can't tell if those tracks are inspired and interesting or kinda terrible. #confused

jarring and silly and confusing and terrible are all improvements in this dude's usually tedious case

arguably, yeah.