Burial album previews

[V Knid esq]

Vocals!

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=56124

[kams]

Sounds a bit too similar to his older stuff - from what you can hear on those clips.

The vocal on the second one sounds nice though - who's that singer?

[Sheridan]

oooh, I can't wait!

[spoon]

there's an interview with the man here:

http://hyperdubrecords.blogspot.com/2007/10/burial-untrue-november-2007.html

i can't wait.

[KuffDam]

Im not some ice cold fretless bass playing psychopath.

Does he mean Squarepusher? :)

[bensonbenson]

fucking load of old crap just like the last one

anyone ever heard the story of the emporers new clothes?

why am i the only person in the world that isn't into burial?

[joe pinapples]

bensonbenson are u like the little boy in the story of the emporers new clothes?

[bracket]

I think it sounds top notch....anyone keeping the 2step vibe alive is good in my book.

[Orang Utan]

I like Burial but it's more coffeestep than dubstep. Certainly not worthy of the hype. It's too restrained for the dancefloor for sure.

[bensonbenson]

bensonbenson are u like the little boy in the story of the emporers new clothes?



yes, i most certainly am.

i just think burial is so over rated it is 'untrue'

[KuffDam]

its really good, its not amazing, it's hard to ignore the hype.

[bracket]

I don't think so - Burial sounds massive on a decent sound system. He has got some real upbeat tracks. I still cane the first Burial release 'South London Burroughs'....that def ain't no coffeestep.

[bracket]

Lovin the artwerk n'all

[skosh]

i liked his first album but there's something about these new ones i dont like, cant put my finger on it

whats coffeestep?

[Orang Utan]

I just coined it - I meant that it's more home listening than club - lacks the heavy noisy basslines that I normally associate with dubstep

[skosh]

areet

[Tec]

@ Knid

Have promos gone out for this yet?

**hoping there is one in the office**

[JE:5]

Hobbs is playing a mix of the new album next week I think.

[thepigjockey]

Trying to decipher the lyrics of 'Near Dark'. Is the first verse 'I can see my bumhole'?

[grobelaar]

Sounds good, right up my street - never heard any of this person's stuff - is it worth checking out the odler releases?

[Sheridan]

Sounds good, right up my street - never heard any of this person's stuff - is it worth checking out the odler releases?

it is a prerequisite.
his first album is a must have.

[bracket]

I just coined it

Could be onto something with that though...:)

[bracket]

it is a prerequisite.
his first album is a must have.

Also check the South London Burroughs and Ghost Hardware EP's both on Hyperdub.

There is also the track 'Unite' on the Soul Jazz Box of Dub compilation...apparently the only burial track made using Logic...he went back to Soundforge for the new album.

[V Knid esq]

There's gonna be coffeestep wars ahead... Burial, Pinch and Geiom albums all out on the same day, all with vocals and "deep moods"... lots of people going to say it's all Starbucks just cos it's not macho.oooo

[KuffDam]

There is also the track 'Unite' on the Soul Jazz Box of Dub compilation...apparently the only burial track made using Logic...he went back to Soundforge for the new album.

That track was pretty dull I thought.. glad he's going back to the forge.

[Orang Utan]

I don't think it's a bad thing - as I said, I like it - I just prefer the stuff with the filthy bumrattling basslines

[johno]

im with benson. flubstep

[KuffDam]

so what's the real deal benson?
seriously. I don't know much of anything about this sort of music.

[Sheridan]

I don't think it's a bad thing - as I said, I like it - I just prefer the stuff with the filthy bumrattling basslines

I like it myself.
a lot of the music I have been listening to as of late has been coffee shopesque. I haven't been to a club in so long I don't really remember what music for the club is supposed to be.
for me it is all about the slow deep dub type sounds.
burial, murcof and deepchord.

[johno]

when 2step was at its peak around 2002 there was a feeling of excitment about the music being made. there was no set sound, just fun & straightforward tunes. obviously being a predominantly black cultural form in this country it was crushed by any means possible ie: politics & media.
with dubstep i think there is an over-arching set of sounds & ideas as to what is & isnt dubstep, & that makes it boring to me. the fun has been removed & replaced by limits.
its not entirely awful, i just wouldnt listen to it

[Sheridan]

burial is the only dubstep I listen to.
I don't care for the sound myself, except when he does it.

[bracket]

i think there is an over-arching set of sounds & ideas as to what is & isnt dubstep, & that makes it boring to me. the fun has been removed & replaced by limits.
its not entirely awful, i just wouldnt listen to it

I feel the same. I have been playing dubstep for a long time and got a bit sick with what the kids these days are calling dubstep. A slew of halfstep wobble nonsense...Still, the backlash has started and there is still good stuff out there - it just takes a bit of digging to get to it...it was discussed here a week or so ago...Knid came good with the recommendations ;)

[FORMAT]

There was some very good stuff on his previous album.

[love_tempo]

The thing about burial is that when South London Boroughs came out it was such a brilliant record. He's released loads of great music since, but most of it is quite similar to that record, and none of it is genuinely better.

Maybe it's like photek, a slew of amazing e.ps that completely define a sound and then no major improvement. Well, photek switched to producing shite, so mebe not that similar at all.

Listening to the new tracks, and again it's basically the same sound but the vocals are a really nice addition. He was saying himself in interviews that he wished the vocals would come back like the old 2-step.

[mdk]

coffeestep? i think a bit of coffee would help matters.

snoozecore.

first album had 1 good tune, the rest is just boring.

[nempsey]

those bits i heard remind me of when jungle went really smooth in the mid 90s

i think the 1st album had 2 good tunes myself

[V Knid esq]

Hype schmype coffee schmoffee I just like it. Not like he's god or anything, but they are some funky tunes that sound different from other people's tunes.

[KuffDam]

I just don't know what to believe anymore.

'Broken Home' off the first EP... and the CD. is the only one I listen to, quite a lot though.

[thepigjockey]

No-one's answered my question about the lyrics :(

[joe pinapples]

No-one's answered my question about the lyrics :(

I think it goes "We can be the cunt? Whack!"

[AVX23]

I think it sounds great, love his beats, clattery shuffly 2step wickedness, altho on 1st impression - I did think hmm that vocal sounds a bit like enigma or summat.

def be buying it tho.

[love_tempo]

I just don't know what to believe anymore.

'Broken Home' off the first EP... and the CD. is the only one I listen to, quite a lot though.

Broken Home is my favourite too, still remember hearing it in the record shop and my ears stood right up!

[spoon]

i always skip past the track with that space ape guy on it. it's terrible. apart from that it's a solid album (the first one). he mentions listening to alot of black secret technology in the interview and it's obviously a big inspiration, i love that style of phasey vocals in that album.

[Sheridan]

i always skip past the track with that space ape guy on it. it's terrible. apart from that it's a solid album (the first one). he mentions listening to alot of black secret technology in the interview and it's obviously a big inspiration, i love that style of phasey vocals in that album.

I like the track myself, but I don't feel it works well on the album.
I tend to skip it as well.

does anyone know who the guy is on the track "gutted" talking about being from different ancient tribes..?
it sounds like vast aire from cannibal ox, but I know there is no talk like that on the cold vein lp.

[spoon]

does anyone know who the guy is on the track "gutted" talking about being from different ancient tribes..?

it's from the movie ghost dog.

[V Knid esq]

Broken Home is the best one, I think we can all agree on that one.

[Orang Utan]

Just listening to Mary Anne Hobbs' show and the Kode 9's megamix of the new album. It's rather good. She's nauseatingly gushing about it. She thinks it's the best thing she's ever heard but I wouldn't go that far. It is more 2step garage than dubstep though, which is not a bad thing by all means. I like!

[bracket]

It is more 2step garage than dubstep

whit?

[bigus]

looking forward to this and the pinch album - I went to a dub step night a few months ago -and it was well boring - weird, for me, its not really music for dancing!! - First burial Album reminds me of the Isreal - Lebanon war ....i used to listen to it a lot that summer.

[bigus]

also the new box cutter album and the geiom one, i got one of geioms singles on a recommendation from some one on here -cant remember who - it was last summer..... pretty awesome though.:)

[V Knid esq]

Sweet! http://rs236.rapidshare.com/files/63100639/burial_album_preview_mixed_by_ kode_9.mp3

[Sheridan]

I can't believe the way mary ann hobbs gushes over burial.
it is like he is the most important musician ever.
I like burial as much as anybody, but get a grip lady.

[Tec]

She loves all the dubstep boys though, Burial being her fave obviously..

Its like a weird Fagan/Oliver sex thing..but with added dubstep music

[love_tempo]

I can't believe the way mary ann hobbs gushes over burial.
it is like he is the most important musician ever.
I like burial as much as anybody, but get a grip lady.

it's cos of a new designer drug called gu5h++. makes me feel like a natural womaaan.

[KuffDam]

she does what she's told

[bigus]

I can't believe the way mary ann hobbs gushes over burial.
it is like he is the most important musician ever.
I like burial as much as anybody, but get a grip lady.

yeah really - steady on. dont belive the hype

[spoon]

she sounds like she's driving the new bugatti on top gear.

probably needs a bloody good seeing to.

[bigus]

ha ha

[V Knid esq]

It's pretty OTT no doubt but you know what, I'd rather hear over-enthusiasm any day than whingeing or playing it cool. And mad though it sounds I don't doubt that she means it.

[love_tempo]

I really like the mix especially the first big vocally one with the pitched vocals that sound a bit like strings of life almost.

[grobelaar]

Got the new album today, had one listen and first impression is total amazement. I really, really like it - probably the best thing I've heard all year, if not all of last year as well.

but that said, I'm not that massively into this dubstep sound, although this album sounds somewhat removed from the rest of the stuff currently coming out of the genre.

Great stuff, will definitely be putting it on repeat.

Thought it was an improvement over the first album. Listened to that yesterday and thought it got a bit samey.

[V Knid esq]

Took me a couple of listens to the full album but I'm 100% hooked. I was definitely a fan before but this is much, much deeper and more varied than the first album - even if it does repeat loads of sonic tricks... it's got full on song structures and brilliant ravey bits - in the same way that eg Aphex Ambient Works Vol 1, or Carl Craig At Les is 'ravey' i.e. sunrise bliss-out acid... yeah, I say believe the hype.

Having said that, there's nothing as rhythmically amazing as Broken Home on it...

The remix he's done for Bloc Party is shit hot too.

[spoon]

it's great. had a proper listen on the train today. i love Raver especially, but it's all good - lovely interludes and all. seems to be a stronger album overall than the first one, but it's early days.... didn't know about the block party remix, they are a terribly, terribly shit band so dunno what i think about that.

[AVX23]

Quite liked that remix he did of Jamie Woon, bit commercial almost, but nice. Still not go this yet, my mate has a copy for me but I've been trying to find a shop to buy it from cos I can't do all this online buying malarky.

I got ghost hardware recently and thought that was ace - probably quite old tho.

[V Knid esq]

I've never liked Bloc Party - but he just turns it into a Burial track, only with even more song structure than the ones on his album :) :)

[spoon]

cool. i'll have to track it down, i'm sure i'll really like it. i've no qualms with him getting some dollar for his work anyhow.

so who else has he remixed then? aside from blackdown ages ago.

[notorious J.I.M]

I listened to it twice today and I love it, didn't think I'd like the vocals from the Kode9 mix and the short clips I'd heard but in the context of the LP they really work. I read it described somewhere else as a bit like the cheesier elements of the Bladerunner soundtrack which sounds a bit harsh but I have the whole Vangelis score on the mp3 player as well and there's something in that with the dream-like dialogue and the synth echoes. Incidentally if you want to hear the bloc Party remix it's the 2nd track on this mix (http://thisisnotanexitclub.blogspot.c om/2007/10/i-got-up-sunday-morning-and-with-packet.html) and it does just sound like Burial.

[AVX23]

Finally got it, it's ace :)

[Sheridan]

does anyone know when this is coming out in the US?
amazon says shipping for the cd will be 4-7 weeks.

[Tec]

I like this album.

More-so than the first one.

[spoon]

does anyone know when this is coming out in the US?
amazon says shipping for the cd will be 4-7 weeks.

the cd was released in the US yesterday.

[bigus]

does anyone know when this is coming out in the US?
amazon says shipping for the cd will be 4-7 weeks.

they didnt have it at amoeba this weekend- said next week(being this week)

[V Knid esq]

I know someone in States got it this week.

[Sheridan]

I know someone in States got it this week.

could I have their address?
thanks in advance.

[bigus]

could I have their address?
thanks in advance.

ha ha ha ha ha lol. brilliant smile mile wide:(

[bracket]

Been listening to this album loads...proper emostep vibes.

[stormfield]

http://shoeblogs.com/wordpress/images/britt.jpg

LEAVE BURIAL ALONE!!! lol

[Orang Utan]

Nevermind coffeestep - here's Britneystep:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5t3Fo8WKfg&feature=related

[namshub]

i listened to it at werk, it is ok - i wasnt really feelin it - maybe too many vocals???.....then i had a listen on headphones... fuck me, it sounded lush...
will listen again this weekend.... i think on cd so it is uninterupted...

[Sheridan]

I ordered this from tower.com.
they said the wait is 3-7 days for it to ship.
then I realized that since I choose the cheapest shipping it may take another 8-14 days to get. bollocks. :(

[Tec]

Its the greatest album to ever grace planet Earth Sheriden, you cannot begin to possibly understand exactly how good this actually is.

[Sheridan]

Its the greatest album to ever grace planet Earth Sheriden, you cannot begin to possibly understand exactly how good this actually is.

word.
can't wait to here it then.

[Tec]

hehe, yeah its good. Not the best album ever though.

[MJimD]

I want to be buried with Burial's discography when I die. He's THAT good.

Don't listen to Tec. This is the best album ever, his first album is the second.

[Tec]

I want to be buried with Burial

[Sheridan]

I want to be buried with Burial


gayer.

[Tec]

Could be an interesting three's up if they chuck Mary Anne Hobbs in too.

[Sheridan]

Could be an interesting three's up if they chuck Mary Anne Hobbs in too.

I think you'd find yourself bored as I don't see her ever getting off burial's dick.

[Orang Utan]

I heard his remix of Bloc Party in SOTU today and it's pretty fucking awesome - is the album like that?

[leatherface]

dubstep enigma

but thats doin enigma an injustace;)

[notorious J.I.M]

I heard his remix of Bloc Party in SOTU today and it's pretty fucking awesome - is the album like that?

Yeah some of it, the vocals are more clean on that Bloc Party remix, less pitch shifting going on.

[KuffDam]

dubstep enigma

but thats doin enigma an injustace;)

lol. yeah.

I really like the simple upfront vocal ones like tracks 2+3 but theres some really boring 90's ambient all over it.

[bigus]

finally picked up this in amoeba SF this weekend.- havent had a propper listen yet but raver- seems to be a stand out cut so far

[Sheridan]

mine is in the post now.
should get it by early next week if I am lucky, but we have holidays this thursday and friday, so it may be end of next week.

[phil2]

Dog And Shit.

[Sheridan]

sample spotting time:

is that justin timberlake in the song 'untrue' at about the 2:38 mark?

[drop]

i received the boxcutter album and burials album at the same time
and after repeated listening i can't shake the feeling that burial might be a little overhyped because "glyph" is the AWESOME SHIT!

thank you
nuff said

[V Knid esq]

Boxcutter's brilliant but he's a bit in that Tipper / Amon Tobin overproductioncore ghetto for me.

[bigus]

Boxcutter's brilliant but he's a bit in that Tipper / Amon Tobin overproductioncore ghetto for me.

would you like to put autechre in that ghetto too?

[KuffDam]

autechre are the slum landlords of the overproductioncore ghetto

[bigus]

ha ha ha ha ha ha - brilliant

[drop]

Boxcutter's brilliant but he's a bit in that Tipper / Amon Tobin overproductioncore ghetto for me.
i'm jus say'n :D

[AVX23]

Boxcutter's brilliant but he's a bit in that Tipper / Amon Tobin overproductioncore ghetto for me.

agreed, still can't get enough of it though - his 1st album has some stunning tracks on it.

[adsr]

Tipper over productions comment wasn't appreciated...but erm..

@avx23 - wasn't that archangel (or sumtin) toon you let me listen to and I really liked was a burial track??

[bob]

all the tunes sound very similar to me, its like one tune idea spun into an album.

"what shall I do on this track?"
"how about pitch shifting some vocals and adding some hiss and noise"
"good plan"

[AVX23]

Tipper over productions comment wasn't appreciated...but erm..

@avx23 - wasn't that archangel (or sumtin) toon you let me listen to and I really liked was a burial track??

yeah - not sure if it was archangel, but was deffo one of the new burial one's.

The other stuff u liked was something else - I'd need to check, similar tip tho.

[joe pinapples]

has anyone heard the Radiohead remix from their new album Burial does?

I heard Thrombone Yorke talking about it in some interview, he said "its amazing, man".

[KuffDam]

After listening to this album three times I have enjoyed it. Can't imagine ever putting it on again though.

[grobelaar]

After listening to this album three times I have enjoyed it. Can't imagine ever putting it on again though.

Bit like playing Assassin's Creed? (except you'd only play it once) :)

[spoon]

Bit like playing Assassin's Creed? (except you'd only play it once) :)

haha, yeah i'd go along with that. so what's the musical equivalent of call of duty 4?

[midori]

hype