Burial

Burial, Untrue (Hyperdub) eight out of ten stars I’ve been thinking a lot about music lately. And I probably shouldn’t because, like Laurie Anderson once famously said, talking about music is like dancing about architecture. But still, I’m human, so it’s only natural to wonder why music—great music, I should say—can take such hold. What gives it such unspeakable power? Well I’m not about to contradict myself and begin here an analysis. No dialectic will uncover some ... MORE

This is my first post on the english talking Mog. I just found Mog, and I want to have my music diary among music diaries, it could be fun and rich, I enjoy the Mog concept. So sorry for my very special english, I 'm french and I 've never done an english blog ever. I read english better I 'm able to write it, I know my syntax is bad. But music will save me one more time. I hope we'll enjoy and discover good music together.First I want to "broadcast" Burial, I used to lear... MORE

Is Friday becoming synonymous with free music? I just discovered a blurb on FACT Mag that points to a pair of unreleased Burial tunes! If you've listened to the recording of Kode 9's otherworldly dj set under the stars at the SONAR festival last year (or if you were lucky enough to hear it live!) than you've heard "Speedball 2" and "Stairwell" before. Both songs are darker, more technotic, like Darquan or Hatcha. But neither made it onto the elusive musician's latest o... MORE

What it brings to mind is that movie Dark City - rainy, cold, and wet, but cool (if you thought Dark City was cool). Like Dark City, it works consistently within its own existence, which is impressive in that Burial has developed his/her (I think his?) own grungy warm club sound. There's not a ton of variation, but the songs do something so particular and evoke such a strong, dark, sound it begs a movie be made just for it. If you're writing a existential hip-hop film-noir... MORE

As I mentioned before on an earlier blog on a different site, Burial's new album Untrue is a 2-step/hyperdub classic. The song "Archangel" (among others) is a perfect example. I would die of ecstasy if I could hear this song at a club under booming speakers. (That will never happen in the MidWest.)

So it's a new year, right? And words/phrases like "beginning" and "starting over" and "change" and "growth" and "a better you," are brandished all over the place. They're all nice and encouraging, fine, but a new year is really just a grander (three hundred and sixty five times grander, to be exact) case of S.S.D.D. All's not lost though: A new old year may be redundant (i.e., another new year) but a new old sound (i.e., a reworked revival of an old sound) is not. I re... MORE

...is not necessarily for listening to with your kids. According to the younger, "That's a little creepy, Mom. But I like it." And the elder just looks at us both and walks out of the room. So, there you have it. Two editorials, both succinct and fairly effective. from Wikipedia:Burial is the working name of an anonymous dubstep musician from London. Burial's eponymous debut album was released in 2006 to critical acclaim. The Wire magazine named it their album of the y... MORE

Well, here it is. a sudden rush of OMG to the head. i figured you could pick and choose to read about the ones that interest you if you find this the embodiment of tl;dr, but this is where this list nonsense ends for now. TOP 20071. Burial | Untrue Honestly, this was a surprise. i loved his first album, but this uk garage/2step influenced dubstep business is playing within the realm of purists that i didnt see much movement for his second one, just more of the same.... MORE

There's been a lot of excitement around Burial's second album, Untrue. Burial is the name an anonymous London musician uses for his dubstep recordings. Here's a very cool track, "Archangel." Untrue is in my top ten albums of 2007 list.

Modeselektor's pet pig
Another year, another list. It's always an interesting time of year for me as I get the chance to peruse other blogs' top album choices and on that note Large Hearted Boy has started to compile everyone's year end lists - check them out here. And there's a twist in the tale today - I'm actually going to make this a top 11 as I have 2 titles vying for the number 1 spot and they are there for different reasons. So I decided to give Burial and Radiohead... MORE

Along with 2step, grime and bassline, dubstep has been percolating in the UK garage scene since at least 2001. Last year it began leaking from the clubs to the mainstream as a few albums were issued that were more than just collections of tracks from 12" singles, from Burial, Skream and Kode 9. Many of these artists were in the soundtrack for the movie Children Of Men, and the Burial album topped The Wire's 2006 critic's poll. I found Burial the most interesting entry, co... MORE

Due to popular demand, the two person review is gonna become a semi regular event - the people have spoken! Guest reviewer this week is good friend Ethan E. from Oregon) rating 7.6amount of hipster genre namedropping in this review 9.1 ST: Alright, this week we've got Untrue, by Burial - the enigmatic London MC making waves with his homespun dubstep masterpieces. EE: Ooh yeah, i've heard of this guy...I heard no one's ever seen his face. Like the music producer... MORE

Jittery, drizzly, late-night rhythmic garage, subterranean sounds, unintelligible voices, headphone music, from beatless to breathless, the amorphous “Untitled” to the sinewy “Raver”, so secretive, mercurial, anonymous, like its unknown creator, you want to question the tracks… Responses are visual, “Archangel” is a speeded-up recording of the sky, “Etched Headplate”, a swinging lightbulb in a black tunnel, “Near Dark” the yearning of the heart-paired and parted, “Gho... MORE

Experimental dubstep musician Burial is about to release his sophomore album, titled Untrue on Hyperdub. His self-titled debut, released last year, was heralded by music critics of all walks even dubbed album of the year by The Wire. Hyperdub describes the forthcoming album:

The new record is weird soul music, hypersoul, lovingly processing spectral female voices into vaporised R&B and smudged 2step garage. Voices are blurred, smeared, pitched up, pitched down and pitch

... MORE