Burial

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)

― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, December 16, 2013 1:21 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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.

Don't know why anyone would moan about a musician doing variances on a theme, especially in light of Rival Dealer.

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?

Yeah pretty much. He's got some hype in the broadsheets in the UK which has exposed him to middle-aged types who normally wouldn't listen to underground electronic stuff, eg my parents

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84Ud20jq9LM

ahahahahahaha

Beautiful.

http://www.hyperdub.net/burial/burial.jpg

oh hai

Aw, he seems quite sweet.

Someone tweeted just that link and first couple of lines I thought it would be a dramatic 'I'm retiring' kind of thing

Hopefully by the end of most years I have done some tunes that are decent enough to release. but Dark Souls 2 is on the horizon soon so I'm not sure if I will have many new tunes for a while because I need to play that game a lot.

a++

So Burial is Kode 9 Four Tet Alexander Nut?

is there anyone who is seriously still a burial conspiracy dude or is it all joeks

LOL ed.b

guess he was at James Blake's Boiler Room set a while back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8idi7PcsbU

pretty sure he's sampled dark souls in the past.

Hope this means he'll be putting out "Feral Witchchild" and all the other BBC mix stuff Hyperdub never bothered to release full versions of.

Rival Dealer has officially sunk in and I know it was touched on briefly upthread, but. . .

. . .did he use this release as one big coming out party?

Can't think of a more glorious, life-affirming way to do it, if so.

The previously unreleased 2009 track Lambeth is on the Hyperdub 10.4 compilation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYV-ZuGo9DY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFAWIeKAWoo

http://keysoundrecordings.bigcartel.com/product/vinyl-mp3

wooo

Two friends who love Burial have both said this is his worst track. I wonder if he just gave a spare track to a buddy and thats why it's white label only on a different label.

I like it, it's different again

Come on! It's banging!

It's really bad

its so bad its

...

good