Burial "Untrue"

bandshell

bandshell

Grand High Witch
Untrue was my introduction to Burial. For a while I preferred the self-titled LP but at the moment I'd say Untrue is better. Feels like a step forward from the first.

'Pirates' is my favourite Burial tune though.
 
computer_rock

computer_rock

Well-known member
Shutta has got to be mine. It feels like the logical conclusion to the whole off the grid syncopation thing he developed over those two albums
 
hucks

hucks

Your Message Here
This is a good, long, piece on the new Burial EP. I was listening to it last night and it struck me that, with all these post dubsteppers ripping off his ideas, he's now sounding more like himself.
 
yyaldrin

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
Shadow Face said:
why would he be in this picture though, especially since it was taken well before he released his identity
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What's this picture about?
 
Local Authority

Local Authority

bitch city
The new EP is something special. He has clearly matured a lot in terms of craft, not that his music prior wasn't already mature. As I mentioned in another thread it seems like all that future garage nostalgia filled in the hole between his releases.

That article hit the nail in the head when describing Burial's music. It encapsulates more then the music, a time and a place as well. Which you could say has happened before but in most cases isn't that just associating a time and place with a song, rather then making a song sound like a time and place.
 
luka

luka

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i like music i can listen to when im training for my next cage fighting tournament. burial doesnt really fill that niche.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
You could do if you wanted to lose badly.

That Quietus piece is good. I occasionally like him a lot (Archangel, Shutta is definitiely the best tune overall, the one that suggest the most possibilities), but after a few tracks I get a bit tired of the crackle and the calculated nature of the whole 'alienated cityscape' thing. He's using the same tricks again and again, and I'm sure he's talented enough not to. New EP sounds exactly like you'd expect, and that can't be good, surely?

ARGGH< STOP USING THE FUCKING CRACKLE!!
 
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Joey Joe-Joe Jr. Shabadoo

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baboon2004 said:
You could do if you wanted to lose badly.

That Quietus piece is good. I occasionally like him a lot (Archangel, Shutta is definitiely the best tune overall, the one that suggest the most possibilities), but after a few tracks I get a bit tired of the crackle and the calculated nature of the whole 'alienated cityscape' thing. He's using the same tricks again and again, and I'm sure he's talented enough not to. New EP sounds exactly like you'd expect, and that can't be good, surely?

ARGGH< STOP USING THE FUCKING CRACKLE!!
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agree. it's all so much on 1 level and 1 emotion.
 
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alex

Do not read this.
the album previews are so good though, can't ever take that away from him & kode 9, so brilliantly put together. Didn't like street halo but I'm feeling the new ep.

edit* speedball 2 needs to come out, that tune is just ridiculous
 
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Joey Joe-Joe Jr. Shabadoo

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baboon2004 said:
yeah, it's a pretty cheap shortcut to use crackle and pitched genderless vocals almost every single time to 'create a mood'. Have to say that I don't think history will judge him too well, precisely because of this.
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he seems to be pretty untouchable though in terms of the press. never see anything but unabashed praise
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
what he's doing is very middlebrow (not the music, which I do like, but the 'mood elements'), like those 'profound glances' in arty French films, that are supposed to be really, y'know, profound, but actually are just a shortcut for doing the work to create something genuinely profound, cos that would require blood, sweat and toil and new ideas. So it's made for the broadsheets.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
but that's kinda my point. the music form isn't for the broadsheets as such (and it's good music, just all sounds the same after a while, for a particular reason, it's like Pizza Express pizzas, the base is always the same), but he's tailored it in such a way that people can write endless 'thinkpieces' about how he represents the zeitgeist or something. and i think he consciously plays up to that now he's realised it pays huge dividends. fair play, anyone would do it up to a point if it meant they got as much press attention as he has, but he sounds a bit samey and he's probably popular enough by now to do something that sounds a bit different and carry his audience with him, and stop with the record crackle motif.
 
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