It's the BURIAL Tracks Poll!!! Dubstep garage rap grime ambient dub search keywords etc. etc.

broken home.

great poll, fascinating read, ilm still goin on strong w00t

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I created the poll and I still haven't voted...

unite

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Oh man. Need to vote.

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The only confusing placement is "In McDonalds" but that aside... nice!

Wow, no votes for Gutted or Pirates?... I reckon Loner and Ashtray Wasp would both place in the top 5 (top 3?) if this poll were done today.

what about 'street halo'? it's the only burial tune i've ever heard played out in dj sets (and for me it's pretty close to perfect).

Wow, no votes for Gutted or Pirates?... I reckon Loner and Ashtray Wasp would both place in the top 5 (top 3?) if this poll were done today.

i prefer kindred

i'd vote for kindred if the poll were done today

That ep may be the best thing he's done.

https://twitter.com/GrimeySimey/status/14680206786

^^^

True. 'Kindred' (the track) is also excellent, as is 'Street Halo'. I think that EP definitively put to rest this notion that he only had one trick up his sleeve (which was never really true to begin with). Also, I don't understand how some people think 'Archangel' is his only good track. Nonsense.

last couple of minutes of ashtray wasp constitute some of the best, uh, "electronic" music i've heard in years

Untrue is 10 years old now! and it's still great

great longread here https://pitchfork.com/features/article/why-burials-untrue-is-the-most-important-electronic-album-of-the-century-so-far/

burial soothes the soul

"nova" w/four tet

"playground circus" w/hope sandoval

two favs

Prior to its release I was fairly sad about the state of texturally focused and experimental electronic music. Much of what I loved from the ambient and IDM scenes in the 90's and early 00's dissolved either into smug glitch heavy esoteric masturbation, or cross genre experiments into indie/folk/world music/hip hop. Much of the electronic music that I was enjoying at the time was from the electro revival and a lot of nu disco.

Then the first two Burial albums dropped, within about a year at that (!!), and it felt like finally texture, atmosphere and lush melancholy was back and being painted with entirely new brushes. I'll never forget how this record inspired me to explore and discover a whole new wave of psychedelic beats and led me to many great discoveries and creative results.

Crazy it's been ten years already.

'Ghost Hardware' got robbed.

Burial has released some great music but none of it since the albums, and much as it's not his fault he has legions of imitators, there is a lot of hacky blubstep stuff still being churned out that just leaves me numb now.

Am I alone in thinking the S/T album is both better and "more important" than Untrue? I get that Untrue is Burial in sui generis mode and was an important crossover moment which set the template for so many subsequent producers (not to mention legions of imitators), where the first album is more "Burial does dubstep", but to me the impact of the latter felt so much bigger.

we need a "Burial vocal samples" poll some day

trying to figure out / remember where the "take me to the dream world" sample is from on the new one

is "loverboy" / "all night long" a concatenation of mariah carey?!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et5B-zfAIIo

kindred through to rival dealer is his peak

yes, i was just going to say that with respect

Burial has released some great music but none of it since the albums

is definitely not correct

burial soothes the soul

"nova" w/four tet

"playground circus" w/hope sandoval

two favs

― Week of Wonders

You mean Paradise Circus? I’ve only heard the Gui boratto remix and I love it haven’t heard the burial one.

Young Death is one of my favourite Burials.

Moka, yeah "Paradise Circus". Burial's mix is pretty sublime, like an aural tranquilizer.

His two new tracks are some of my favorite things he's done period.

It's way too much to expect someone to change the face of their genre with every release, just because it happened once (or twice!!) before.

I think my answer to the imaginary new poll in my head would be Come Down to Us. I think it's the most complete expression of one aspect of his aesthetic - the sentimental - and find it painfully affecting at times.

That would be a fun poll; you should do it. I'd probably vote for Come Down to Us too, but Stolen Dog destroys me almost as much.

"Come Down To Us' is second only to "Rival Dealer" as my absolute favorite Burial track