Burial

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

Actually, the EP kind of has the high-gloss blockbuster camp of a Lana & Andy Wachowski production.

It's more divisive than I expected/some of my friends are less open minded than I thought.

This is doing absolutely nothing for me, and I've always liked if not loved everything before.

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lol

here's my take:
http://crackmagazine.net/music/burial/

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.

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.

A+ review Dwight Yorke (unexpected major spelling breakdown (two words?) in the first line of the last paragraph though?)

https://soundcloud.com/beriel4furtit2k13/rivel-beriel

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design twins, nearly. both fond of surprise december releases. they should do an album together.

I would actually love them to.

beyrial

This EP is fucking amazing imo. Got a really nihilistic pissed up feel to it. Post-nightbus.

beyrial

― mh, Saturday, December 14, 2013 12:55 PM (Yesterday)

blasted this in the car for the first time yesterday evening. title track sounded mindblowing at loud volume. really might be the best thing i've heard all year.

funny how december -- normally a "dead zone" for new music releases -- was among the strongest months for new music in 2013.

also

beyrial

― mh, Saturday, December 14, 2013 12:55 PM (Yesterday)

― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, December 15, 2013

Listening to this for the first time now. You really know an artists is a critically overindulged one-trick pony when a change of sound this minor is hailed as a controversial left turn.

Nobody forced you to like him or click on this thread, or did they?

critically overindulged one-trick pony vs. having a totally focused, identifiable, and hugely influential style

damn this is still amazing. the few-second stretch on the title-track, just around the 1:00 mark, where the song's main riff is kinda audible, but slurred and submerged, then jumps to the forefront and locks in, is brilliant.

Nobody forced you to like him or click on this thread, or did they?

Sorry, didn't realise this was only a thread for positive comments. FWIW I do like Burial, or some of his stuff at least, but he is very indulged and granted a level of reverence that 99% of producers aren't, even when he's being lazy or uninspired or just a bit crap, and the tracks here don't represent anywhere near as much of a curveball as is being claimed in some quarters.

you're right. should've thrown every identifiable aspect of his sound out. these tracks, especially the b-side, sound nothing like anything else he's done. i don't see where you are getting that vibe from it. you don't have to like it, but that doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

I've accused Burial of being a one-trick pony in the past, but I felt like the new single was making a big statement even before he came out with his statement about bullying. The sample choices and way they're used are extra evocative on this release. I think he's getting better with time and I'd rather play his last 2 eps than his first album at this point.

the tracks here don't represent anywhere near as much of a curveball as is being claimed in some quarters

no, but it's a noticeable change, just like his experimenting with very long pieces, with several movements, was a noticeable change, just like his moving into more propulsive, upbeat tunes (with four-tet) was, at the time, a noticeable change. i don't mind him mining his signature-sound, especially since he is moving it around, albeit incrementally. i actually prefer this to the genre-hopping you see with some artists (including my beloved r.e.m., who developed and discarded several signature-sounds, and kinda hung around other genres for an album or so, with varying success).

beyrial

― mh, Saturday, December 14, 2013 12:55 PM (Yesterday)

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Matt: I totally understand when people say they don't like something and they can explain why they don't like it, but that "critically overindulged one-trick pony" was the thing that I didn't get and I took it as "let's troll the fanboys by insulting them"

http://soundcloud.com/hypertrap

^_^

Pretty clear to me that the latest EP counts as mixing things up...I just don't think it works as well as the previous one, too "obvious" and latter-M83-y. Nothing wrong with trying something new though, I'll still be as keen for the next one.

Stan I was eyerolling at FACT magazine etc, not anyone on this thread.

I don't really like it for roughly the same reason as Local Garda, it's his usual sound with the addition of some other really out-of-place elements. The final part of one track just makes me think of Kate Winslet and Leo DiCaprio on the front of the night bus, it's reaching for this really cloying kind of emotional grandeur.

eternal sunshine of the sinking ship?

http://www.factmag.com/2014/01/16/burial-to-appear-on-james-blakes-first-bbc-1-radio-show-tonight/

wow. hm. stupid question, but since i actually might be interested in hearing this interview -- anyone know if that channel/program available streaming online? since i'm EST, it will probably air in the dead-of-night.

It's on in 15 minutes...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_one

it was a simple lampoon

i hate james blake now.

(unless he's burial).

Missed it, what happened?

http://t.co/ZTH45eFmES

"critically overindulged one-trick pony"

I'd only vaguely heard of Burial before hearing it for the first time by accident, around the time of Untrue. But I can attest that if I'd heard all the talking about Burial before hearing the music I'd probably see him as overindulged too.

I've barely kept up with the writing about Burial since those days – am I right in thinking he's become a 'breakout artist' kind of, like how Aphex Twin finds his way into playlists and record collections and conversations that peers of Aphex wouldn't get into?

Don't think one-trick pony works though, too many different things going on across the records. It might all take place in a broken mirror but you get different pictures floating across it.