The Netherlands is concurrently a very different place (at least spatially) from Britain, yet it feels far more familiar culturally than, say, France or Germany. It successfully implemented modernism as a method of social organisation in the form of architecture and urban planning in a way that we, by all accounts, failed miserably at. Burial's music is normally talked about as an artistic reflection of the lived experience of the failure of this project i.e. the tragic experiences that we've touched upon in the Grim Britannia thread that state-sanctioned modernist architecture gave rise to and which Mark Fisher/Owen Hatherley dedicated their careers to examining. The Netherlands, on the other hand, appears to be a country where this project was implented on a far greater scale (due predominantly to the wider extent of physical destruction the country was subjucated to during WWII) and where it seems to have worked - I'm not aware of the total social breakdown and visual dilapidation in the Netherlands of the kind the UK experienced from the late 1970s - mid 2000s. Maybe some academic marxist/economist types will have explanations for why this was but for me, from my own experiences and from what I've read at least, the Netherlands seems to have got it right where we got it so very, very wrong. On the other hand, this success of the Netherlands model lends to itself it's own air of sterile melancholy, and it is this feeling which I believe Legowelt's music best articulates.