omg such bangers!!
― spacemindy, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
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.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
more like boringal
― ienjoyhotdogs, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link
MODED
― the late great, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 18:30 (ten years ago) link
OMG, edgy (xpost)
I wonder if they released it early so it wouldn't be too near Mandela's burial.
― StanM, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 18:32 (ten years ago) link
"Hiders" >>> "Rival Dealer"
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 18:32 (ten years ago) link
Hiders is insane
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 18:33 (ten years ago) link
the whole ep is insanely good.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 18:40 (ten years ago) link
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.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link
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
― cardamon, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
Sounds like the sound-loops you hear ringing out as mobile phone ringtones and on adverts? Anyone else feel this?
― cardamon, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 18:51 (ten years ago) link
Does this mean he isn't Four Tet anymore?
― StanM, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
best person in the game right now, greatest artist in the world, and I mean artist
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
the tom fill at 2:43 in 'hiders' is funniest thing ever to happen on a burial record
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 19:38 (ten years ago) link
totally agree with this.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 20:17 (ten years ago) link
I love this EP. Not expecting this turn at all, and it's all the better for it.
― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 21:56 (ten years ago) link
is this ep going to be made available on itunes in the us?
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 12 December 2013 01:02 (ten years ago) link
it's stateside street date is on the 17th, so it'll likely be up then.
― kyenkyen, Thursday, 12 December 2013 01:27 (ten years ago) link
burial has basically surprised me with every release. thank god for that dude.
― Dick Townwolves (Captain Ahab), Thursday, 12 December 2013 01:59 (ten years ago) link
this sounds aight
― the late great, Thursday, 12 December 2013 02:31 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Thursday, 12 December 2013 10:01 (ten years ago) link
*lone voice ffs
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― 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
― r|t|c, Thursday, 12 December 2013 10:29 (ten years ago) link
I feel a bit like I'm being trolled by Burial on those last two tracks.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 12 December 2013 11:12 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Thursday, 12 December 2013 11:18 (ten years ago) link
I can't tell if those tracks are inspired and interesting or kinda terrible. #confused
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 12 December 2013 11:55 (ten years ago) link
jarring and silly and confusing and terrible are all improvements in this dude's usually tedious case
― r|t|c, Thursday, 12 December 2013 12:06 (ten years ago) link
arguably, yeah.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Thursday, 12 December 2013 12:09 (ten years ago) link
tracks 2 and 3 definitely bring the Saturdays=Youth vibes
― mums go off when i enter the building (monotony), Thursday, 12 December 2013 13:07 (ten years ago) link
Come Down To Us is completely ridiculous, isn't it?
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 12 December 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link
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?
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 12 December 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
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.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 12 December 2013 14:30 (ten years ago) link
This whole queer aspect of the EP, this is really an unexpected turn right? It's like Burial meets DJ Sprinkles.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 12 December 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link
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"?
― Rotating prince game (I am using your worlds), Thursday, 12 December 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
It's like Burial meets DJ Sprinkles.
sounds like a great music combination, actually.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 12 December 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
The transgendered person talking is Lana Wachowski, Don't think she appeared on the s/t.
― mums go off when i enter the building (monotony), Thursday, 12 December 2013 18:46 (ten years ago) link
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.
― kyenkyen, Thursday, 12 December 2013 19:22 (ten years ago) link
This is really not a good record. It is, however, awesome.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 12 December 2013 19:27 (ten years ago) link
its def goofy as hell, esp side B
― kyenkyen, Thursday, 12 December 2013 19:35 (ten years ago) link
yeah I really don't know what to make of it
― freemen (on the) space (seandalai), Thursday, 12 December 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
Actually, the EP kind of has the high-gloss blockbuster camp of a Lana & Andy Wachowski production.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 12 December 2013 19:42 (ten years ago) link
It's more divisive than I expected/some of my friends are less open minded than I thought.
― StanM, Thursday, 12 December 2013 20:03 (ten years ago) link
This is doing absolutely nothing for me, and I've always liked if not loved everything before.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 13 December 2013 20:14 (ten years ago) link
facebook notification sound
― deeja entendu (wins), Friday, 13 December 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
lol
here's my take:http://crackmagazine.net/music/burial/
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Saturday, 14 December 2013 12:05 (ten years ago) link
nicely done. review also prompted me to seek-out this website, which identifies samples used in songs, posts clips of both songs and pinpoints the sampled moment in both of them.
would never have guessed that the stone-roses were sampled in ashtray wasp.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 14 December 2013 12:51 (ten years ago) link
burial sent a message to a bbc 6 show about the rival-dealer ep:
I put my heart into the new EP, I hope someone likes it. I wanted the tunes to be anti-bullying tunes that could maybe help someone to believe in themselves, to not be afraid, and to not give up, and to know that someone out there cares and is looking out for them.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 14 December 2013 13:03 (ten years ago) link
A+ review Dwight Yorke (unexpected major spelling breakdown (two words?) in the first line of the last paragraph though?)
― StanM, Saturday, 14 December 2013 14:53 (ten years ago) link