New Burial ep

[therapist]

I am good thank you sir.

.....after a long, long spell of illness.

Some new/old tunes on the way, will be chucking em up on the Ghostlight SC page soon...

Likewise, good to hear from you, still fighting the good fight I see!

It's nice that you're alive. Keep doing your garages.

[Dub_freak]

Seriously cringing at all the blind burial worshipping all over the internet.

Always been a fan of burial but I have to admit, this ep is definitely the worst thing he's put out. Rival dealer is alright, the sexuality sample is really odd and out of place. The other two tracks though... Is this a joke? Those drums in hiders are so bad I nearly luaghed and the end of come down to us... wtf? Was really not expecting this.

[Maccaveli]

WHAT THE FUCK

WHY ISN'T THIS EP DEPRESSING

I CAN'T EVEN WALLOW IN IT

GIVE ME MY FUCKING MONEY BACK

[jude111]

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[hirszu]

I've just listened to this.
The Indian teenager comparison is so accurate

[Etches828]

I just really don't understand, where is the soul. it sounds like celine deon and D4nny doing a collab

[jude111]

I just really don't understand, where is the soul. it sounds like celine deon and D4nny doing a collab

Seriously? I guess we don't all hear the same. What I'm listening to is dripping with soul and feeling. There's literally no one else who could have made this.

[Etches828]

i dunno i jus can;t really hear that burial soul. and like im not coming at this from the angle where im like "ffs i wish he jus did another untrue", i wholeheartedly endorse a new direction, and when people were slating the massive attack release and truant, i stood by them, i loved them, i can hear where he's coming from with those releases, but this just sounds so off-key, out of touch. Like this whole "he's coming out" business, i couldnt give a shit, i dont care if he was a lizard man with downs syndrome, i listen to the music, if anything, deep personal motives and political messages put me off. and the production itself sounds very rushed to me, and considering he apparently made Untrue in two weeks it seems strange. Deep down i still think Kode9 is trolling, it's all a big game. I'm pretty sure kode said on radio prior to the release of Kindred he would never upload full clips etc...

I don't wanna come across as a hater, but im just super confused

[ehbes]

i mean i just want another untrue...

[OGLemon]

I wish Burial did more music like this. Love that darkness.

[jude111]

Like this whole "he's coming out" business, i couldnt give a shit, i dont care if he was a lizard man with downs syndrome, i listen to the music, if anything, deep personal motives and political messages put me off.

Well, that's what nails this release for me. Perhaps Burial is Banksy after all. (Not really. But in a way...) This is a year when transgender Chelsea Manning was sentenced to life in prison for the "crime" of exposing US war crimes.

Transgender Lana Wachowski, who is quoted at length by Burial at the end of this EP, wrote and directed The Matrix and V for Vendetta. The Guy Fawkes masks that became the symbol for Anonymous (hacking group) and Occupy Wall Street come from Wachowski's V for Vendetta, while The Matrix's theme of a pervasive and ubiquitous surveillance grid controlled by the Feds (personified by Agent Smith) has been shown to be much closer to reality than we ever knew, by Edward Snowden's massive whistleblowing of the NSA via journalist Glenn Greenwald (who is also gay, and whose husband was detained as a terrorist by the UK, because he was working for the Guardian newspaper).

For me, Burial's album manages to reference all of this, through the build-up to the Wachowski denouement. Not so much overtly, but it's a part of the reality of the last year - or 6 months, actually, when Snowden's revelations first broke, Chelsea Manning was sentenced to life in prison soon after, Wikileaks' Julian Assange remains holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy, and then last month, Anonymous hacktivist Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Then there's the pirate radio theme that runs throughout Burial's work, including this one. That's big-time political: an underground community radio for the people, not beholden to commercial interests or control by the State. To me, Burial's music has always been deeply political...

[jude111]

Just thought of something else: the way in which Burial manipulates voices to morph and oscillate between male and female genders. That's a link between Untrue and Rival Dealer, this continued exploration of sexuality and gender.

[forbidden]

dude what

[syrup]

#Brorial2013

[jude111]

dude what

Did I do it again? Never mind me, I'm just ecstatic to have a new Burial EP to listen to for quite a while to come, - and one that's even exceeded my high expectations.

[chekov]

mate just leave it

[skwiggo]

lol @ burial backlash - it was always gonna happen, the hype put on the guys music is fuckin ludicrous to say the least and i always thought that lots of people would eventually tire of the hype when the new music doesn't live up to their expectations.

all that being said - i'm starting to really like this new release after initially wtfing about it and it seems like a sort of logical extension from kindred and rough sleeper (both of which i enjoyed greatly). IMO with burial the cheese factor has always been there since untrue but now its dialled up to 11 - its like he's taken the cheesy weird nostalgia stuff (90s eurodance, rnb, trance and film soundtracks) that was implicit in his earlier releases and pushed it much further to the front to almost uncomfortable levels.

the first time i heard hiders and come down to us i was cringing at the 80s drum bits, the ridiculous samples and the power ballad keys but i'm now on my third or fourth listen and it's not quite as jarring now. it's starting to sink in and make more sense to me.

in fact the ep kinda reminds me of scuba's personality in it taking elements that were kinda already there in a producers sound and amplifying them to a large degree - like 'how far can we push this sound?'

anyway tl;dr

[wolf89]

Do you wear a fedora Jude?

[Johnlenham]

Also how old is Ashtray wasp and Stolen Dog? That shit is just as good as anything on Untrue or Burial to me, so its not like hes gradually built up to this direction imo.

[bennyfroobs]

in fact the ep kinda reminds me of scuba's personality

hahahaaha what a par