Dunno about anyone else, but I think negative emotions are extremely difficult to put into a piece of music that you'd actually (honestly) want to listen to, it requires a pitch-perfect sensibility to avoid turning into parody – Burial today one of the few people who can do this?
― cardamon, Monday, 2 December 2013 12:04 (ten years ago) link
Ashtray Wasp also has the really sad submerged jazz ending
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 2 December 2013 12:10 (ten years ago) link
It doesn't get sadder than In McDonalds does it lads?"You look different"
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 2 December 2013 12:11 (ten years ago) link
^ ^ ^
― cardamon, Monday, 2 December 2013 12:19 (ten years ago) link
knew there was a special reason for my morningwood today.
― illegalblues, Monday, 2 December 2013 15:38 (ten years ago) link
'Ashtray Wasp' now his greatest song IMO
rough sleeper for me, tho ashtray wasp gets extra points for sampling cheap-trick.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 5 December 2013 01:37 (ten years ago) link
http://youtu.be/vBoTdWSYleI
gettin' pStoked, raming up for the new one.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 5 December 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link
errritt.. RAMPING up for it?
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 5 December 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
Earlier today, http://www.theorchard.co.uk/release/888003991057/burial/rival-dealer was taken down. It contained this info:" 23 dec. 2013 - UPC: 888003991057. Tracklisting. 1. Rival Dealer. 2. Hiders. 3. Come Down to Us "
Guessing the date might be the physical release since digital was going to be next week (Dec 16th)
― StanM, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
Good.
― cardamon, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 04:27 (ten years ago) link
Never know what to say when anticipating something.
El-B's Serious is a tune by the way – I think it gets mentioned as a possible Burial influence upthread
― cardamon, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 04:29 (ten years ago) link
possible sample of the title track
sounds, superficially at least, like burial, but it's a lot more aggressive than the other recent work. again, if it's genuine.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 05:25 (ten years ago) link
okay, so possible samples of all three songs from the new ep. not convinced these are genuine, but they certainly could be.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 05:35 (ten years ago) link
http://www.hyperdub.net/releases/view/258/HDB080
― StanM, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 09:48 (ten years ago) link
that title track is fantastic. and with the second-half of that song, he's still experimenting with longer, weirder, more ambient song-structures (like he did on the truant/rough-sleeper ep).
― Daniel, Esq 2, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 13:01 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd3Ch53PxBs&feature=share&list=UUNvfjGiZOuh78KYMojvugeQ&index=5
― Barnaby, Hardly, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 13:03 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1bb2JakOmo&feature=share&list=UUNvfjGiZOuh78KYMojvugeQ&index=5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY0FLh2EIfs&feature=share&list=UUNvfjGiZOuh78KYMojvugeQ
― Barnaby, Hardly, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 13:04 (ten years ago) link
the beginning of hiders reminds me a little of david foster's instrumental theme to st. elmo's fire? but i really dig it, especially as it builds to something almost rock-ish sounding.
this ep feels like a fairly big departure (into interesting directions) to me. initial impression is that this ep is one of the best things i've heard this year.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 13:13 (ten years ago) link
St. Elmo's Fire meets To Live and Die in LA -- Foster/Wang Chung soundclash.
― Andy K, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 13:17 (ten years ago) link
yeah!
― Daniel, Esq 2, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 13:18 (ten years ago) link
um, two of the three official mp3s are called ... - Burlal - ...
― StanM, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 15:06 (ten years ago) link
and it's... wow... different but great
― StanM, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 15:30 (ten years ago) link
wow
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
yeah. it's pop-ish at points. the fact magazine insta-review got a lot of things wrong, in my view, but they finished with an interesting discussion about subject-matter that might be embedded in the subtext of the EP.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link
man the full-on dream pop in the first half of Come Down To Us is just gorgeous
― kyenkyen, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
fairly sure if you combined burial's two 2013-ish EPs into a single album, it would be my favorite of the year.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 16:44 (ten years ago) link
i love how some of the snare sounds on this will probably be most divisive thing about it. but it's poppy and weird and gorgeous.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 16:51 (ten years ago) link
i'm loving this. i feel like there've been glimpses of burial approaching something resembling pop/house in the last two, little melodious rave-y suites we hear snatches of here and there, but nothing as fully fleshed out as on this one.
― kyenkyen, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
omg such bangers!!
― spacemindy, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
it's almost a little weird to hear burial acknowledge relatively recent sounds (sampling auto-tuned vox, 16th note hi-hats), but that quickly gets subsumed into the dream-pop thing and overall burialness.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
more like boringal
― ienjoyhotdogs, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link
MODED
― the late great, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 18:30 (ten years ago) link
OMG, edgy (xpost)
I wonder if they released it early so it wouldn't be too near Mandela's burial.
― StanM, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 18:32 (ten years ago) link
"Hiders" >>> "Rival Dealer"
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 18:32 (ten years ago) link
Hiders is insane
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 18:33 (ten years ago) link
the whole ep is insanely good.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 18:40 (ten years ago) link
yeah, these are off putting, right off.. good to see he's fucking around with the formula though. might need some headphones for these, and a proper format.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link
The first bit of melody on 'Come Down To Us' - I think that's a rhodes piano with some autotuned vocals over it? – is really sentimental and cheesy but the way its been looped makes it have loads of pathos
― cardamon, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
Sounds like the sound-loops you hear ringing out as mobile phone ringtones and on adverts? Anyone else feel this?
― cardamon, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 18:51 (ten years ago) link
Does this mean he isn't Four Tet anymore?
― StanM, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
best person in the game right now, greatest artist in the world, and I mean artist
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
the tom fill at 2:43 in 'hiders' is funniest thing ever to happen on a burial record
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 19:38 (ten years ago) link
totally agree with this.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 20:17 (ten years ago) link
I love this EP. Not expecting this turn at all, and it's all the better for it.
― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 21:56 (ten years ago) link
is this ep going to be made available on itunes in the us?
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 12 December 2013 01:02 (ten years ago) link
it's stateside street date is on the 17th, so it'll likely be up then.
― kyenkyen, Thursday, 12 December 2013 01:27 (ten years ago) link
burial has basically surprised me with every release. thank god for that dude.
― Dick Townwolves (Captain Ahab), Thursday, 12 December 2013 01:59 (ten years ago) link
this sounds aight
― the late great, Thursday, 12 December 2013 02:31 (ten years ago) link
as someone with v little time for burial in general, these are the first burial tracks i've wanted to play again since "archangel". a christmas coming out story, huh
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 December 2013 08:29 (ten years ago) link