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
The second half of 'Come Down to Us' is...its like an ascension to heaven or something. The moment when that lone voices says "I saw myself crying" jesus christ
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Thursday, 12 December 2013 10:01 (ten years ago) link
*lone voice ffs
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― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 December 2013 08:29 (1 hour ago) Bookmark
concur
seems he has become a p decent successor to dj shadow all in all
― r|t|c, Thursday, 12 December 2013 10:29 (ten years ago) link
I feel a bit like I'm being trolled by Burial on those last two tracks.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 12 December 2013 11:12 (ten years ago) link
these are kinda terrible imo. i mean not in a way that affronts me, they're like p much his usual sound with an "innovation" of some faintly pop elements which are sort of jarring or bordering on silly. all sounds like the weeknd too.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Thursday, 12 December 2013 11:18 (ten years ago) link
I can't tell if those tracks are inspired and interesting or kinda terrible. #confused
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 12 December 2013 11:55 (ten years ago) link
jarring and silly and confusing and terrible are all improvements in this dude's usually tedious case
― r|t|c, Thursday, 12 December 2013 12:06 (ten years ago) link
arguably, yeah.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Thursday, 12 December 2013 12:09 (ten years ago) link
tracks 2 and 3 definitely bring the Saturdays=Youth vibes
― mums go off when i enter the building (monotony), Thursday, 12 December 2013 13:07 (ten years ago) link
Come Down To Us is completely ridiculous, isn't it?
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 12 December 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link
I think I'm obsessed with the sprawling hot mess that is this track. The "you are not alone" sample drop at like 10:30 is so hilarious. "There's something out there..." And the concluding dialogue at the end of being transgendered? So the theme is like a Walt Disney meets hardcore continuum Christmas coming out prog-opera?
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 12 December 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, this track. I'm inspired to write some Come Down To Us fan fiction.
If anything, it counters some of the more tasteful, selective nostalgia for the nuum.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 12 December 2013 14:30 (ten years ago) link
This whole queer aspect of the EP, this is really an unexpected turn right? It's like Burial meets DJ Sprinkles.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 12 December 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link
Is the sample of the transgendered person at the end the same person that is sampled on the last track on his debut "I went in to the bathroom to get some aspirin and I happened to look in the mirror and I swear to God I see something that I can't describe but it sure as hell is not my reflection"?
― Rotating prince game (I am using your worlds), Thursday, 12 December 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
It's like Burial meets DJ Sprinkles.
sounds like a great music combination, actually.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 12 December 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link