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This first album on Kode9 s deeply-respected Hyperdub label comes from the mysterious Burial, who carves out a sound which sends the dormant slinky syncopations of UK garage, via radio interference, into a padded cell of cushioned, muffled bass, passing through clouds of Pole s dense crackle dub en route. 'Burial' - the album - explores a tangential, parallel dimension of the growing dubstep ouevre, using sounds set in a near-future South London submerged underwater. You can never tell if the crackle is the burning static off pirate radio transmissions, or the tropical downpour of the city outside, taking its loud quiet aesthetic neither from the latest digital glitch software nor a mere nostalgia for vinyl s intrinsic physicality. In their sometimes suffocating melancholy, most of these tracks seem to yearn for drowned lovers, as haunted echoed voices breeze in and out, on roads to and from other times. The smouldering desire of Distant Lights is cooled only by the percussive ice sharp slicing of blades and jets of hot air blowing from the bass. Listen also for a fleeting appearance from Hyperdub s resident vocalist, The Spaceape, unravelling his cryptobiography. 'Burial' is a renegade signal from other frequencies, a tidal wave of seductive low-impact noise submerging all but the crispest syncopations, and is well on course to be universally welcomed as the standard-bearer for creative vision built upon the grime and dubstep blueprint.
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41 of 43 people found the following review helpful
By Shaolinjedi
Format:Audio CD
This is not a genre defining album. If you want one of those try the excellent Dubstep Allstars albums. This album implodes the genre, taking all the elements and piling them up till they crush themselves and create something beyond, something unique, something beautiful.
Swathed in crackle and reverb, the soundsystem sensabilities sweep you up and wrap you till you are suffocated under a welter of half speed beats, cavernous bass and snatches of lost vocals. Burial has created as moving an album as you'll ever hear.
Swathed in crackle and reverb, the soundsystem sensabilities sweep you up and wrap you till you are suffocated under a welter of half speed beats, cavernous bass and snatches of lost vocals. Burial has created as moving an album as you'll ever hear.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Okay I'll be honest with everyone - I knew nothing about Burial before he was nominated for the Mercury Music prize (With follow up to this, Untrue). Even then all I knew was that he was a dark dubstep producer.
I now think he was robbed. In fact, had the Arctic Monkeys not been in the running in '06, I would say he should have won then. At the very least this album should have been nominated.
I'll keep it simple. The album is an absolute joy. Better than 'Untrue' in my opinion. Emotive, ambient and abit clever. I would highly recommend this to any music fan, whether they normally like production based music or not.
Lessons learnt - 1) Mercury Music Prize is good for Something, 2) This album is top notch!
I now think he was robbed. In fact, had the Arctic Monkeys not been in the running in '06, I would say he should have won then. At the very least this album should have been nominated.
I'll keep it simple. The album is an absolute joy. Better than 'Untrue' in my opinion. Emotive, ambient and abit clever. I would highly recommend this to any music fan, whether they normally like production based music or not.
Lessons learnt - 1) Mercury Music Prize is good for Something, 2) This album is top notch!
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
By HJ
Format:Audio CD
Future Dub
With the dance music explosion of the 1990s a fading distant memory, there's a kind of hysterical desperation around to find "urban" music with some musical intelligence and broader appeal. Hence the hype - or relief - that has greeted this album coming out of a south London "dubstep" scene. After a few plays it does really suck you in, especially the latter half - by track 5 the (mostly instrumental) album starts to come alive, immersing you, becoming more rhythmically insistent yet more abstract with broken beats, glitchy samples, scratches, white noise etc. It gets better & better. The final track 12 "Pirates" is the most hallucinogenic dub I've heard since the heyday of Perry & Pablo. Despite various doubts & reservations, I've now had Burial on virtual repeat play for weeks. Believe the hype!
With the dance music explosion of the 1990s a fading distant memory, there's a kind of hysterical desperation around to find "urban" music with some musical intelligence and broader appeal. Hence the hype - or relief - that has greeted this album coming out of a south London "dubstep" scene. After a few plays it does really suck you in, especially the latter half - by track 5 the (mostly instrumental) album starts to come alive, immersing you, becoming more rhythmically insistent yet more abstract with broken beats, glitchy samples, scratches, white noise etc. It gets better & better. The final track 12 "Pirates" is the most hallucinogenic dub I've heard since the heyday of Perry & Pablo. Despite various doubts & reservations, I've now had Burial on virtual repeat play for weeks. Believe the hype!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Masterpiece!
Took a lot longer to deliver than I expected, but it was of course worth the wait!
A masterpiece album that should be in the collection of ANY music lover!
A masterpiece album that should be in the collection of ANY music lover!
Published 6 months ago by F. J. Dona
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good debut effort - not as accomplished as Untrue
I started backwards with Burial - I first heard Endorphin played on Resonance FM and subsequently purchased Untrue in early 08 - a real eye opener to me and one of the best albums... Read more
Published on 27 May 2009 by Chinese Visa Direct
4.0 out of 5 stars
One Dubstep Beyond
I'm playing the debut Burial album, eponymously named forsooth, a great deal at the moment and it is a bewitchingly lugubrious and atmospheric product. This appeals. Read more
Published on 27 April 2008 by Mr. M. J. Cole
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is incredible
What beauty lies encased in here to surprise the sensitive ear!! This speaks of the urban night, of the silent moment of reflection that takes on you in the midst of the dullest... Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2008 by Antonio Elena Batllo
5.0 out of 5 stars
Uniquely brilliant....
Possibly the best thing i have heard in a long time since i started listening to the moody dark rhythms of Massive Attack and the like...... Read more
Published on 19 Jan 2008 by Chief Koala
5.0 out of 5 stars
Concrete music
One can only state the emotions and sensibilities the music provokes. I do not want to coin Burial as a messiah, a voice of a generation, recluse, genius etc. Read more
Published on 20 Nov 2007 by O. Bryan
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not the best by Burial (let alone of the year!), but there are some...
Normally I'd be the first to big up another dark, minimalist dub step offering brimming with new angles and ideas to move the scene on this. But I have to say people this ain't it. Read more
Published on 8 Nov 2007 by S. C. Bonner
5.0 out of 5 stars
Celebrate the Burial
Grooverider, Moodyman, Alex Reece, Smith and Mighty, Spooky. Burial sounds nothing like these folks yet there's a similair unmediated quality to what he does: there's no... Read more
Published on 27 Oct 2007 by Montgomery Snapper
5.0 out of 5 stars
Depth charge dubs
Demonstrates just how far the dubstep scene has become a mature and sophisticated genre. Full of longing, warning, wisdom and beauty amongst the tower blocks. Read more
Published on 2 Jun 2007 by A. Turner
5.0 out of 5 stars
Night bus music...
If it's possible, try to imagine being drowned in a slow-burning quagmire of dub-textured sound and you're probably only half-way there to understanding the impetus behind this... Read more
Published on 5 April 2007 by C. J. Statham
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