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.
― rockapads, Saturday, 3 November 2007 08:24 (sixteen years ago) link
leaked!
― bove, Saturday, 3 November 2007 08:28 (sixteen years ago) link
leaked? i saw it in the store two days ago...
― willem, Saturday, 3 November 2007 09:51 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― jed_, Saturday, 3 November 2007 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― tpp, Saturday, 3 November 2007 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Saturday, 3 November 2007 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Where is it Oink when I need it ... Argh.
― Mr. Goodman, Saturday, 3 November 2007 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
good album to bang to
― cutty, Saturday, 3 November 2007 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
"ghostly diva" tpp otm. a real letdown.
― whatever, Saturday, 3 November 2007 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Mr. Goodman, Saturday, November 3, 2007 8:04 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
go search
― whatever, Saturday, 3 November 2007 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link
OK, this is good.
― admrl, Sunday, 4 November 2007 00:15 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Siah Alan, Monday, 5 November 2007 02:25 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― StanM, Monday, 5 November 2007 12:14 (sixteen years ago) link
'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.
― jermainetwo, Monday, 5 November 2007 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link
oh my GOODNESS i am loving this. perfect for the end of daylight saving, huh
― nervous, Monday, 5 November 2007 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link
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' ???
― pollywog, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 04:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Archangel wins.
― Belisarius, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 06:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Did anyone hear his Bloc Party remix yet?
― StanM, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 07:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― pollywog, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 11:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Lofi but nice sample of that Bloc Party remix:
http://www.exlibris.ch/vinyl.aspx?status=detail&p_id=1473647&t_na=CPV
― StanM, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 12:32 (sixteen years ago) link
turns out the untitled remix I was referring to above *is* the bloc party remix... it's really great.
― jermainetwo, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
the one on thisisnotanexit's mix? wow
i assume bloc party sounds nothing at all similar to that?
― lucas pine, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link
No, not at all. They're an uptempo rock band.
"art-punkers Bloc Party mix angular sonics with pop structures." (from AMG)
― StanM, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
cheers for that thisisnotanexit tip, jermainetwo. (much better sounding & longer than that record store sample)
― StanM, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
i'll be looking forward to the "high-tech darkside" album he put off to do this one. it is lovely tender, though.
― faso, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:43 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― StanM, Thursday, 8 November 2007 09:21 (sixteen years ago) link
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").
― unperson, Thursday, 8 November 2007 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link
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)/
― StanM, Thursday, 8 November 2007 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
copy & paste that whole line (or click the second of the four identical yellow/black covers you see there)
― StanM, Thursday, 8 November 2007 16:23 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― mh, Thursday, 8 November 2007 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― jim, Thursday, 8 November 2007 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― jim, Thursday, 8 November 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― StanM, Monday, 12 November 2007 09:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't really feel much of the first one but I'm loving this. More vocal snippets = a good thing in by book.
― Matt DC, Monday, 12 November 2007 10:21 (sixteen years ago) link
i dunno man, demoting todd the god to an archangel seems a little rude.
― r|t|c, Monday, 12 November 2007 10:35 (sixteen years ago) link
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
-- 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.
― r|t|c, Monday, 12 November 2007 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I hadn't noticed that, perhaps because I'd been spending so long wondering why there are two tracks called 'Untitled'.
― Matt DC, Monday, 12 November 2007 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― StanM, Monday, 12 November 2007 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Tim F, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
"Are you from the planet Assclown?"
are you kode 9?
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― jim, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
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".
― jim, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
- apostrophe after mate
oh yeah the vocals...
...cut em up randomly in 'recycle' spread em over your keyboard and play them manually in real time using your pitch shift wheel, record and add effects
― pollywog, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 23:47 (sixteen years ago) link
good plan bitch.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 00:03 (sixteen years ago) link
sometimes the effect is haunting and beautiful... (shell of light)
... other times not so much. (first half of near dark)
i do think the vocals are too prominent in this album. if i was a cynical guy i'd say he read too many of his own reviews and went for what he thought people liked best about the first one.
just my initial impressions - i still need to listen to this more. somehow it seems kind of formulaic and less... "deep" than the first album to me.
― rockapads, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 00:38 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^i bet u suck a mean dick...
...maybe shoulda got spaceape in to vocalise some shit and given his vox the treatment
I try but I just cant listen to more than 2 of his trax in a row if i'm actually listening (it's them bloody drums aaaaarrrrrrrrrggghhh) but to have it loop in the background continuously makes it like one loooooong song that i kind of like...
...gotta be sum remixes coming out pleeeease
― pollywog, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 00:52 (sixteen years ago) link
"i do think the vocals are too prominent in this album. if i was a cynical guy i'd say he read too many of his own reviews and went for what he thought people liked best about the first one.
-- rockapads"
nah, id say he was just trying to copy the shit out of Groove Chronicles "Stone Cold" which incidentily you can hear on El-B's myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/ghostrecordings
i mean, this album is blatantly an abstracted version of that track right there. as it is my favorite 2-step jam, that is all good with me. i wouldnt say it is formulaic, id say that he just stuck to a more obvious song structure, and even within that he did some nice things (the false ending of "untrue", the off timing on things coming in on "raver", etc) to trick it out. i would say that this one is more "deep" than the first one, though.....
― pipecock, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 01:52 (sixteen years ago) link
<i>nah, id say he was just trying to copy the shit out of Groove Chronicles "Stone Cold" which incidentily you can hear on El-B's myspace page:</i>
Well that ties in with my theory that Burial is EL-B anyway. EL B = Bury EL. Buck & Bury, ghost hardware, stone cold dead and buried... I mean c'mon ???
And in his last interview he said he wishes he were a ghost. The anonymously ressurected ghost of 2 step ..:)
― pollywog, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 05:05 (sixteen years ago) link