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February 26, 2007
Burial
I first became aware of Burial via a post by Charles Mudede on the Stranger blog, in which Mudede wrote: "I would go as far as to call it the best album since Tricky's Maxinquaye, which brought post-colonial Britain to the point of dusk, the verge of the aftermath... It is the meter of, the movement in, a time that's somewhere not here." Needless to say, that's a hefty statement, and when I finally spotted the album in Sonic Boom, the press quotes were just as emphatic: "The dubstep answer to Massive Attack's Blue Lines," read one, while another called the album "a mournful dubstep masterpiece." Ignoring for the moment that a) I didn't know what the fuck dubstep was in the first place before this, and b) I'm just letting those other people write this entire post at this point, the fact is that c) this is really intriguing stuff, cold and otherworldly but intense and commanding. From the 2006 release Burial.
Burial - Distant Lights
Burial - Spaceape (feat. Spaceape)
Burial - U Hurt Me
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Posted by Scotto at February 26, 2007 08:00 AM