Burial

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.

tracks 2 and 3 definitely bring the Saturdays=Youth vibes

Come Down To Us is completely ridiculous, isn't it?

I think I'm obsessed with the sprawling hot mess that is this track. The "you are not alone" sample drop at like 10:30 is so hilarious. "There's something out there..." And the concluding dialogue at the end of being transgendered? So the theme is like a Walt Disney meets hardcore continuum Christmas coming out prog-opera?

Yeah, this track. I'm inspired to write some Come Down To Us fan fiction.

If anything, it counters some of the more tasteful, selective nostalgia for the nuum.

This whole queer aspect of the EP, this is really an unexpected turn right? It's like Burial meets DJ Sprinkles.

Is the sample of the transgendered person at the end the same person that is sampled on the last track on his debut "I went in to the bathroom to get some aspirin and I happened to look in the mirror and I swear to God I see something that I can't describe but it sure as hell is not my reflection"?

It's like Burial meets DJ Sprinkles.

sounds like a great music combination, actually.

The transgendered person talking is Lana Wachowski, Don't think she appeared on the s/t.

idk and maybe this is a cross-post w/ the gender identity thread but the whole prospect of being trapped in a body that isn't "who you are" sounds deeply unsettling and fits w/ burial's project i think. the "other rooms, other worlds" bit at the end of Come Down To Us is key here-- giving voice to liminal states, androgynous voices/vocal samples where the gender is switched mid-sample, ~murkiness~ etc-- all this is old-hat burial stuff, only thing that's new here is a level of explicitness that has been missing from his catalog. or else is new to my ears at least.

This is really not a good record. It is, however, awesome.

its def goofy as hell, esp side B

yeah I really don't know what to make of it