Burial

I had a dream last night that Burial got made an MBE. True story.

xxp it looks like the full digital release comes out in February, one half of the release is available now, and the vinyl is scheduled for April

holy shit, chemz is incredible stuff. i haven't been following burial over the past few years, is this the first time he's gone all-out rave like that?

He's definitely had some rave-ier tracks -- Temple Sleeper, Rival Dealer, etc

"claustro" from 2019 is the closest predecessor to "chemz"

It’s been almost 10 years since I last heard Untrue and my nostalgia got triggered hard. This does for me what Massive Attack’s Mezzanine does. Albums which I was obsessed about the year they came out and I very rarely come back to, but when I’m in the mood for them they outshine every music ever made.

https://burial.bandcamp.com/album/shock-power-of-love-ep

(i haven't listened yet)

wish I was feeling this more but like the last several Burial singles I find it a bit disappointing. "Space Cadet" better than "Dark Gesthsemane" though

these are the first Burial tracks I really like again after a long time

"Dark Gesthsemane" is fantastic!

agree

dark gesthsemane is so good

I'm as massive a Burial stan as you will find and I am still not hearing what you all are hearing in these new tracks

Still here for it though, and for whatever's next

Dolphinz > Chemz

Dr. Lilly he say, why choose?

I don't know what to expect - different art style, new profile pic, sounds like it could be beatless?

https://burial.bandcamp.com/album/antidawn-ep

going to be 30 mins of just layers of vinyl crackle and alley echoes and nothing else

I'm in

twist is it's actually album length despite being called an EP

Fake(?) leak already out there.

yeah after listening i did question if it's real because it's quite a shift even from previous ambient burial. but it's not totally out of character or anything or obviously fake, wouldn't really be surprised either way

someone says it's Asleep Country’s album Next Year’s Snow ?

no idea, I've not seen the leaked thing - https://nextyearssnow.bandcamp.com/album/100

I can't believe it's almost 2022 and people are still making fakes

what I found isn't that Asleep Country thing at least but it's quite atrocious - I hope it's real :D

an announcement and physical sales without even putting out a preview single is pretty rare now

real thing is entirely ambient burial

I'm in

Seems to be up now on Bandcamp

https://burial.bandcamp.com/album/antidawn-ep

Already enjoying this way more than any of the recent singles

yeah I love this already

I like it. I would almost prefer if it didn't have the voices, which are just a little too BURIAL for me, a bit jarring to start with and then become monotonous after a while.
Haven't listened to that much Burial in recent years but I'm surprised he's still mining this very specific "foster care advert" aesthetic this far into his career, cos as nice as this is, it could be slices from Untrue but with the drums taken out.

definitely a sign of the times that this thread isn't at the of of the new answers page. In my day, a new Burial release was an event!

Ha. New Burial is just a cozy part of the holiday tradition now.

I like it too...obv it's not very 'memorable' in the way that Untrue is, but I like the Burial vocal chops combined with the Burial ambience. And I think there's more going on in the music than seems immediately apparent.

I don't know how much I'll return to it, but I hope I do.

I haven't heard anything since "Untrue," what have I missed?

Mostly collected here, the first half are the ambient ones, I prefer the bangers like Claustro and Street Halo, and still like Come Down to Us for long-form emo ambient Burial:

https://burial.bandcamp.com/album/tunes-2011-to-2019

his peak was the run of Kindred, Truant/Rough Sleeper and Rival Dealer in 2012-13, with Rival Dealer being his absolute best, check out those first

co-sign that, ufo.

(although i did really like 'claustro' and consider it among that lot of "his absolute best")

Every time I listen to this guy I press play, promptly forget about it, and realize I’m still listening 15 minutes later

Really enjoyed this new one. Ran it several times through. As calstars said - you try to listen actively and it takes you away so quickly.

there's some really harsh, unpleasant frequencies on this, and it doesn't do enough otherwise

digital release of 2 Burial-Four Tet collaboration tracks (Nova from 2012, Moth from 2009 - originally vinyl only)

https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/album/nova-moth

okay, that's fun.

(new to me)

I've warmed up a bit to "Chemz" and "Dolphins," but I will go to my grave not understanding why Antidawn was not hailed as a major statement upon release. Even here, there didn't seem to be much enthusiasm for a record that is to me a really fascinating pivot from one of the most innovative artists of the past twenty years. Maybe everyone was secretly hoping for a return to form, ie just repeating Untrue but less good?

Antidawn is what my niece and nephew call my wife, but hey

untrue isn't even his peak though, kindred through to rival dealer is much much better

i don't think antidawn was that much of a pivot though, he'd been putting out similar ambient stuff occasionally for a while, going back to "subtemple" and "young death"/"nightmarket"

That's true, but committing himself so completely to that vibe was rather unexpected, no? And I actually agree about Untrue, I just assume that's the consensus pick. The early singles will always be my favorite Burial shit, along with the self titled LP

from 2016 onwards his output has been kinda all over the place so going further with a style he'd already spent a while exploring wasn't really a big surprise, him putting out something album length was though

Been hammering Rival Dealer recently - never not sent into a different world when the "saw myself crying" bit rolls in on "Come Down to Us"