Called Untrue and out November 5th. That's all I got.
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 27 September 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
ooh! looking forward.
― latebloomer, Thursday, 27 September 2007 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
HDBCD002 (November 2007) Burial - 'Untrue'
From: http://www.hyperdub.net/
― three handclaps, Thursday, 27 September 2007 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought he said he was only gonna do one, then go back underground.
WHAT A RIP OFF
― max r, Thursday, 27 September 2007 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought everyone just hoped he only do one.
― I know, right?, Thursday, 27 September 2007 22:36 (sixteen years ago) link
i liked the first one, dunno where he's gonna go with his urban ambient/drone/soundtrack/2step now.
― max r, Thursday, 27 September 2007 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know about that, but Hyperdub has been on fire lately and that future release schedule looks great!
― Alex in SF, Friday, 28 September 2007 04:12 (sixteen years ago) link
It seemed so conceptually pure to just have one. He could have been a pop music ghost. Instead he's gonna go and ruin it with a stab at a career(?)
― I know, right?, Friday, 28 September 2007 10:50 (sixteen years ago) link
What a terrible annoyance that the guy doesn't want to just quit making music, eh.
― Raw Patrick, Friday, 28 September 2007 12:20 (sixteen years ago) link
couldn't he have used another name, like, dunno, NotBurial?
― StanM, Friday, 28 September 2007 12:55 (sixteen years ago) link
-- I know, right?, Friday, 28 September 2007 11:50 (2 hours ago)
right, i know!
― max r, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:11 (sixteen years ago) link
"unite", the track he put on souljazz's "box of dub", was much better than anything on the first record so i'm really looking forward to this.
― jed_, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:15 (sixteen years ago) link
he should do loads of stuff under different pseudonyms...
gotta hear that unite tune.
― max r, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe a straight-up 2step banger would be interesting from him... or some pure drone stuff
― max r, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Try SeeqPod: http://www.seeqpod.com/music/?q=burial+unite
― bham, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
'unite' is mah top tune of 2007
a brand new lp this fast seems... notright.
lets hope for several years of delays and reverb
― The Macallan 18 Year, Friday, 28 September 2007 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
This fast? It's been over a year! And it's not like he's been flooding the market with 12"s or anything.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
It seemed so conceptually pure to just have one.
Otm. But if he can still pull off something great with this one, I'm in.
― roxymuzak, Friday, 28 September 2007 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link
CD Tracklisting: HDBCD002 1. Untitled 2. Archangel 3. Near Dark 4. Ghost Hardware 5. Endorphin 6. Etched Headplate 7. In McDonalds 8. Untrue 9. Shell Of Light 10. Dog Shelter 11. Homeless 12. UK 13. Raver
LP Tracklisting: HDBLP002 A1. Archangel A2. Near Dark B1. Homeless B2. Shell of Light C1. Raver C2. Etched Headplate D1. Untrue D2. UK D3. Endorphin
Courtesy of Blackdown.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 28 September 2007 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Just found the press release and new cover here. Shit I'm excited about this. http://hyperdubrecords.blogspot.com/
― bass, Thursday, 4 October 2007 06:36 (sixteen years ago) link
7. In McDonalds
lol
― jabba hands, Thursday, 4 October 2007 06:38 (sixteen years ago) link
If there's one LP that could yet challenge Pinch for dubstep album of the year, it's Burial's. The secretive south Londoner has been hard at work throughout the summer and finally the fruits of his labour, Untrue have a release date in November on Hyperdub.
While a full album review will have to wait until next month's column, one track from the album has stone cold, instant classic written all over it. It's name is "Archangel". At first, it sounds like many Burial dubs: dark, spacey, with rolling drums and popping El-B-style woodblocks. Then the vocal comes in. Wherever you are when you hear this vocal, let me warn you now: please make sure you're sitting down.
Much of "Archangel" is familiar Burial: the Bad Company grimey synths, the deep, emotive Detroit strings and the Foul Play touches. What marks it out as entirely new territory for Burial is the way his infatuation with vocals comes so prominently to the fore, as if inventing some new kind of dark vocal pop.
"Holding you/ Let it be alone… let it be alone… loving you/ Kissing you/ Tell me I belong…tell me I belong…"
On paper the lyrics seem unremarkable. To the ears they're heartstring dynamite. Rolling through the fore of the track, the pitchbent vocals form syrupy melodies like a Todd Edwards classic or Akon r&b bomb. "Archangel" is a lament for everyone who's ever loved so hard it hurts, fallen so deeply little else matters, given until they're dry, cared until they've ascended to a higher place. Burial did all that in one track. Now, are you ready for the rest of "Untrue?"
― daviday, Friday, 5 October 2007 02:07 (sixteen years ago) link
*SIGH*
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/46000-the-month-in-grime-dubstep
― daviday, Friday, 5 October 2007 02:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Nice interview in Fact Magazine: http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/da/61991
"The sound that I’m focused on is more, you know, when you come out of a club and there’s that echo in your head of the music you just heard…I love that music, but I can’t make that club sort of stuff…but I can try and make the afterglow of that music."
"I can’t make super-tunes, but I can make eerie tunes…quiet and rolled-out, with the elements out of reach."
"I like putting uplifting elements in something that’s moody as fuck. Make them appear for a moment, and then take them away. That’s the sound I love…like embers in the tune…little glowing bits of vocals…they appear for a second, then fade away and you’re left with an empty, sort of air-duct sound…something that’s eerie and empty. Like you’re waiting just inside a newsagent in the rain…a little sanctuary, then you walk out in it. I love that."
"There's more rain this time round." :-)
― gnippiks, Sunday, 14 October 2007 06:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay, the track titles are making me a little excited about this.
― I know, right?, Sunday, 14 October 2007 09:58 (sixteen years ago) link
i can understand not wanting to make it a triple LP but omitting four songs from the vinyl? geez
― LaMonte, Sunday, 14 October 2007 13:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I downloaded the South London Boroughs EP -- and liked it a lot -- but so far passed on the debut disc, assuming either it was either a retread of the EP's sound.(n.1) But this thread has me interested. Is the debut different sounding from the EP? Is it worth getting?
_____________________________________ (n.1) The EP's tracklisting is South London Boroughs, Southern Comfort, Night Train and Broken Home).
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 14 October 2007 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Sorry, I forgot to remove the word "either" from the first sentence.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 14 October 2007 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
the album is what you should own. the 12"s are fine, the album has ambient cuts and other weirder pieces on it as well.
the clips from this new album are insane. i cant wait.
― pipecock, Monday, 15 October 2007 01:13 (sixteen years ago) link
whoa, those clips on boomkat are heavy
― LaMonte, Monday, 15 October 2007 01:31 (sixteen years ago) link
other clips:
http://www.soundsoftheuniverse.com/releases/?id=10244
― StanM, Monday, 15 October 2007 10:22 (sixteen years ago) link
can't decide if i should smirk or frown on seeing that burial appears to be better at the writing about burial game than his boosters are
― r|t|c, Monday, 15 October 2007 10:52 (sixteen years ago) link
btw i wonder if there isn't always a certain need people have, for an album like this (ghost cannibalization of older surer musics, at a sort of above the merry-go-round of modernity remove LET'S SAY) at this exact stage of every decade? yknow, this random desultory phase where people dont know what the big optimistic groundswell is and aren't finding themselves getting caught up in anything. it just seems so much like the clamour about pole all over again, from where i'm sitting.
or maybe the question should be not that the need exists, but that the one album always seems to get made? i wonder what the 80s equivalent was, if there was one. perhaps people werent yet po-mo enough by that point.
― r|t|c, Monday, 15 October 2007 11:09 (sixteen years ago) link
actually there was tons of crazy stuff happening in 1997 wasnt there. maybe... too much to enjoy? i dunno. something's being tapped into here though, and it couldn't have happened in say 2002.
― r|t|c, Monday, 15 October 2007 11:15 (sixteen years ago) link
something's being tapped into here though, and it couldn't have happened in say 2002
I'm interested in what you think is happening, and how Burial fits into it. Burial's EP sound is throbbing, lonely, urban and ambient (like a modernized BladeRunner soundtrack), but I'm not sure what uniquely ''naughts'' sound or angst its tapping into or trailblazing for.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 15 October 2007 12:37 (sixteen years ago) link
it's all about the memories of a better time: the not so distant past of mashup jungle and sexy 2-step. his music mourns the deaths of those genres....
― pipecock, Monday, 15 October 2007 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link
threnody for an unrealized future
― mh, Monday, 15 October 2007 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm just amazed by the unending effort to overwrite about this guy, it's so easy to come up with really moody cliched descriptions
― mh, Monday, 15 October 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
jeez I wish he'd sort his fucking drums out...
...they're only slightly less annoying than Ma hobbs gushing praise and stupid accent
http://rapidshare.com/files/63100639/burial_album_preview_mixed_by_kode_9.mp3
love the atmos though...
― pollywog, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 04:48 (sixteen years ago) link
what the hell is that woman on? O_o
― StanM, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 06:46 (sixteen years ago) link
...sounds like shes on his nutz big time !
― pollywog, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 10:50 (sixteen years ago) link
i like how his hi-hats sound like scissors. do they still sound like that?
― Jordan, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
that announcer woman is in love with burial. and kode9 a little bit, too.
― LaMonte, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
She's like that with everything, really. I want her to narrate my life: 'and now … the most incredible, lovely piece of toast that ever came out of a toaster … mmmm'
That said, 'the stage is yours' made me cringe.
Music's tops though.
Liked the description of the high-hats as scissors upthread – now I'm always going to think of that!
― Brakhage, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link
'and now … the most incredible, lovely piece of toast that ever came out of a toaster … mmmm'
dude, i am lolling so hard...
...I hate hi hats that sound like scissors, makes me want to cut myself just to feel alive
― pollywog, Thursday, 18 October 2007 00:31 (sixteen years ago) link
burial really loves the forrest whitaker samples.
― LaMonte, Thursday, 18 October 2007 01:21 (sixteen years ago) link
From Ghost Dog yeah?
― Brakhage, Thursday, 18 October 2007 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
and in the mix of new album linked upthread there is a sample of his oscar speech....
― LaMonte, Thursday, 18 October 2007 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link
http://music.guardian.co.uk/urban/story/0,,2198811,00.html
i liked him before he started playing the PR game and doing broadsheet interviews.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Thursday, 25 October 2007 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link
The ill-ec-tro-nic has mp3s of "Near Dark" and "Etched Headplate" posted (from Hyperdub promos of the album)
― Malcolm Money, Thursday, 25 October 2007 23:44 (sixteen years ago) link
"If they were just a bit less prominent in the mix, maybe with decreased volume, more "dubby" fx, and triggered less often, it would have been classic"
OTM
― titchyschneiderMk2, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
the vocals are awesome, you guys smoke rocks.
― pipecock, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Pipecock otm, but then again dude's first album puts me to sleep, so I'm very glad he changed directions.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 02:14 (sixteen years ago) link
ive listened to this about 3 times. will have another go but i have to say, burial works much better for me one track at a time (in the context of a dj mix for example). an album of that shit is just too much for me.
― sam500, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 02:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Finally gave Untrue a try (the previous one didn't really click with me and this thread put me off a bit) and fuck all the haters this is ten times better than Burial. Especially because it is so 'samey' and monolithic (which seems to be the main criticism against it).
― Siegbran, Thursday, 1 May 2008 21:11 (fifteen years ago) link
"It's a fairly common US thing to class all electronic music as 'techno', I've noticed."
We're provincial that way.
― factcheckr, Thursday, 1 May 2008 23:26 (fifteen years ago) link
The vocals are the BEST PART. The beats are fairly pedestrian 2-steppy clanks, that circulate on repeat across a number of tracks, like some broken machine flailing in vain.
The general atmosphere on the first one is way more diverse and compelling, which leaves the vox on the second being the only aspect that fascinates me.
― factcheckr, Friday, 2 May 2008 00:03 (fifteen years ago) link
The vox were overdone: Too high in the mix, and triggered too often. The drums are bad on this album, too, though. Maybe I just don't like it!
― rockapads, Friday, 2 May 2008 00:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Unconfirmed DJ Kicks mix tracklist (original release date June 23rd, now sometime in July) - note: I have no idea how legit this is
Teebee - daywalker (burial remix) Amon Tobin - slowly A Guy Called Gerald - flawless Brian Eno - music for harry Burial - stairwell Burial - etched headplate (burial remix) Bong Ra - @!#$ all Future sound of London - dead cities (burial remix) dj FOOD - the crow (burial remix) A Tribe called quest - problems Fanu - for those that dream Breakage - clarendon Stranjah - g riddim Todd Edwards - holy Esthero - swallow Mary j Blige - lift it up (burial remix) Kraftwerk - Autobhan Anthony Rother - destroy him my robots Masters at work - NY soul Luke Slater - jackhammer funk Future sound of London - papa new guinea (burial remix)
― StanM, Saturday, 21 June 2008 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
That kind of strikes me as not being at all legit. But I have a tendency for being wrong.
― jim, Saturday, 21 June 2008 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
tracklisting leaked for burial!!!
"stir it up" - bob marley "i can see clearly now" - johnny nash "don't turn around" - ace of base "six underground" - sneaker pimps "love theme from 'last temptation of christ'" - peter gabriel "mutant jazz" - t power "we tryin to stay alive" - wyclef "here i come baby" - ub40 "emergency on planet earth" - jamiroquai "alphabet aerobics" - blackalicious "high hopes" - tali "digital" - goldie ft krs-one "tomorrow people" - ziggy marley "i can see clearly now" - johnny nash
-- moonship journey to baja, Thursday, April 24, 2008
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 21 June 2008 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link
^^ this one is WAY better
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 21 June 2008 23:16 (fifteen years ago) link
― StanM, Saturday, 21 June 2008 23:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I actually prefer the one with Eno, Kraftwerk, Rother, a Tribe Called Quest, Mary J Blige, Amon Tobin, etc. etc.
― stephen, Sunday, 22 June 2008 02:07 (fifteen years ago) link
eno, kraftwerk, rother? pffft alright apparently you just have a thing for bald white dudes.
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 22 June 2008 05:41 (fifteen years ago) link
8=======D ~~~ ~
― stephen, Sunday, 22 June 2008 09:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Marius J. Blige, exposed!
― StanM, Sunday, 22 June 2008 10:06 (fifteen years ago) link
the burial tracklist would have to be just all old rave and hardcore. with some old school DnB in it.
was just reading an old interview with him in the wire, and thats pretty much how he rolls.
― Hamildan, Sunday, 22 June 2008 10:21 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/347/
here'tis
― Hamildan, Sunday, 22 June 2008 10:24 (fifteen years ago) link
If it is the real deal then it's great that Stairwell is finally seeing the light of day. That one tune stamps on most of his last album. Would be cool to have this on unmixed vinyl.
― Discordian, Sunday, 22 June 2008 11:57 (fifteen years ago) link
It is fake.
― jim, Sunday, 22 June 2008 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link
aha! So there's a real one somewhere, then?
― StanM, Sunday, 22 June 2008 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Teebee - daywalker (burial remix)
Ooooh I neeeed to hear this. Badly.
― stevienixed, Sunday, 22 June 2008 19:37 (fifteen years ago) link
aha! So there's a real one somewhere, then? Alas no, but Kode 9 posted the concise but fairly unambiguous answer "NO" when it was posted on the dubstepforum.
― jim, Sunday, 22 June 2008 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I want to hear his FSOL remixes.
― chap, Sunday, 22 June 2008 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe it was "nooooooooooooooooooo" as in "noooooooooooooooooooooo, i cant believe the tracklisting leaked"
xpost
― max, Sunday, 22 June 2008 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Kode Vader.
― jim, Sunday, 22 June 2008 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
... and round 3 begins.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/03/digging-burial-kode9-reveals-brandnew-burial-at-brainfeeder-sessions.html
― untrue pitch, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
listening to kode9 dj right now on the brainfeeder live stream thing and he's playing straight '90s drum & bass :)
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone know anything more about this project:
BURIAL vs MASSIVE ATTACKTBA [HELIGOLAND REMIXED](VIRGIN, expected Summer)It's no secret that Burial has been commissioned to remix Massive Attack's recent Heligoland LP in full. If the project is completed on schedule, it should be out in time for 2011's post-summer comedown.
It's no secret that Burial has been commissioned to remix Massive Attack's recent Heligoland LP in full. If the project is completed on schedule, it should be out in time for 2011's post-summer comedown.
it was a secret to me, at least.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
heard about it long ago. will never happen. where is the dj kicks?
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:43 (thirteen years ago) link
in a couple of hours... ?
http://lockerz.com/s/145994981
http://www.facebook.com/massiveattack?sk=wall&filter=2
― StanM, Monday, 10 October 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
woah!
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 10 October 2011 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
no way
I'm guessing this is a few tracks remixed or a collaboration. If this is actually that remix album idea made real, I'll eat my hat.
(gets out salt and pepper)
― ( ) (mh), Monday, 10 October 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
it's a two-song single, but each song is about 12 minutes. and it's less a rework than a total overhaul.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 10 October 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
"Both tracks exclusive to this limited edition"
― StanM, Monday, 10 October 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
I don't believe that, tbqh.
it's ... interesting. probably works well if you're walking around in the early-morning hours, a little hazy and disoriented. all mood, no hook. you can generally say that about burial, but it isn't true, especially on his newer material (e.g., the collaborations with four-tet and the street halo EP).
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 10 October 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_VBeuyRvHsN0/S_B4Aa7JmaE/AAAAAAAABFI/wkIrtQ9AjU8/OneTrickPonyGreetings.jpg
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 10 October 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
oh hey I'd like this but 25 pounds probably not going to happen
this is going to be on discogs for 100 in two weeks, right?
― ( ) (mh), Monday, 10 October 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
not a one-trick pony. see, e.g., the stuff i mentioned above (the four-tet collaboration; street halo EP, which -- far from being totally downcast, moody affairs -- is music with a beat, that you can play in the summer sun). this track, however, moves back toward bleak soundscapes.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 10 October 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
I was thinking, what with the work with Jamie Woon, that Burial was moving towards making genuine SONGS. "Fostercare" and "NYC" are almost recognizable ballads, Imo. This is a surprise. It's ok... a bit thin...
― Mercer Finn, Monday, 10 October 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
i wouldn't take it as strong evidence either way. it's a one-off project, apparently.
and you're right. overall, the recent trend for burial is toward more songs.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 10 October 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
i ordered two copies. i wish burial would use a different sound palette.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 10 October 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
$480 on Ebay already
― StanM, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
one at £500 on discogs.com , even
http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?release_id=3184385&ev=rb
― StanM, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
shit, i better put my spare copy up while the iron is hot
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
got my copy of this in the mail today. it's pretty great, but i'm thinking of selling it...
― BringTheAuBonPain, Saturday, 12 November 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
...srsly? lol at the fools stupid enough to spend that kind of money
― lucas pine, Saturday, 12 November 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link