Burial & Four Tet / Thom Yorke - Ego / Mirror

[Guest tidbit]

dont like

[berndspring1974]

LEAKED

 

 

quality digital version?

 

yep

[Guest Benedict Cumberbatch]

the rip is awesome. love it. the beat on ego is so simple but so good. on first few listens i thought thom might be letting the side down but i actually like his vocals now. they fit rather than feeling like a radiohead remix.

 

mirror is burial with thom on top. can't argue with that really. definitely the weaker side. still good though.

 

A+ overall

 

 

i went back and listened fourtet's ringer ep again after not liking it when it came out. and i still feel the same. he was in transition, maybe. that track from the recent split was top. his last album was good except the burial like vocal loops.

[Earth]

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/12145-mirror/

 

Super delicious.

[impakt]

In six months you will all agree with me that mirror is the best track.

[kakapo]

There are already 16 copies up on discogs ranging in price £25-£75, including sister ray, and about 40 on ebay... pricks.

 

Having said that I've ended up with two copies after getting overexcited, thinking my order at Norman hadn't been taken, buying at Boomkat and then the one from Norman turning up.

 

So I'll either sell at cost, offer it for trade or give it to Essines. Some kind of vinyl swap through wattem, good idea or asking for trouble?

[impakt]

I could be down for some swapping.

[Guest bitroast]

Where can i get my hands on the clean and shiny digital version? thaaaanks

[cloudbreaker]

Where can i get my hands on the clean and shiny digital version? thaaaanks

 

No where legitimately (yet, or maybe ever, judging by the last burial/four tet effort).

 

Other than that... the usual sources.

[Guest uptown devil]

just got mine today. overall i thought it sounded good, especially at 33 rpm, which takes the danciness out if it a bit. some artwork would have been nice.. and the piano at the end of 'ego' was a bit over the top.. but whatever, still a good piece of music for $15.

[keltoi]

ego's great. less 'burial'.

[jules]

seems like there are 2 new tracks...

 

https://pitchfork.com/news/thom-yorke-burial-and-four-tet-reportedly-release-new-song/

[Friendly Stranger]

43 minutes ago, jules said:

seems like there are 2 new tracks...

 

https://pitchfork.com/news/thom-yorke-burial-and-four-tet-reportedly-release-new-song/

Gotta hear this....

Edit: nevermind, here you go: https://www.stereogum.com/2109239/thom-yorke-burial-four-tet-her-revolution-his-rope/music/

Edited December 2, 2020 by Friendly Stranger

[Friendly Stranger]

Both tracks are very pretty. Nothing mindblowing, they sound exactly like tracks that Thom Yorke, Burial, and Four Tet collaborated on. 

Lovely stuff, I wonder if they would ever do a full LP together someday?

[endera3rd]

If anyone can grab me one of these I would be very happy to pay you extra extra. Also I have doubles of a couple of the older releases I could trade. 

[thumbass]

Sorry these tracks are boring AF

[ignatius]

5 minutes ago, thumbass said:

Sorry these tracks are boring AF

so far, the reviews are fun. though, not as cryptic as the releases themselves. 

Edited December 2, 2020 by ignatius

[species8472]

get thom yorke outta here

[fumi]

There's a rip of this now floating around. Had a listen. Pretty boring, to be honest. If it didn't have those well-known names attached, you'd pass over this without even caring.

[zero]

19 hours ago, species8472 said:

get thom yorke outta here

there was a point in time when I would seek out any track he was on. now, I couldn't agree more with your statement. as soon as his voice came on, I slightly cringed. his vocals seem a little too high in the mix maybe?

and I side with some of the other opinions here that these tracks are nothing special. still hoping for a Burial 3 track EP to drop right before Christmas.

[species8472]

yeah - these tracks are pretty boring - and are further ruined by the presence of thom yorke.

i used to think thom yorke was the shit, and a feature would be the very thing i wanted. nowadays i find his voice just sounds ridiculous and silly, and his lyrics are juvenile.

burial early days seem to have just been a flash in the pan.

but a part of me always holds out hope that one day he will drop some sick hard steppers.

[fumi]

1 hour ago, zero said:

there was a point in time when I would seek out any track he was on. now, I couldn't agree more with your statement. as soon as his voice came on, I slightly cringed. his vocals seem a little too high in the mix maybe?

and I side with some of the other opinions here that these tracks are nothing special. still hoping for a Burial 3 track EP to drop right before Christmas.

+1 on that Burial Xmas drop. There's still time.

[markedone]

 

 

im also lukewarm on these (i was on ego mirror as well tbh). i love all the artists in solo mode (been listening to lots of radiohead as of late) but their talents never gel for me on these collaborative tracks?  It only ever sounds like 2 of them worked on any track.. or almost like a fan threw thom vocals over a b-side instrumental

Edited December 3, 2020 by markedone

[mause]

cant say these new collab tracks are worth getting. ego/mirror are both fantastic tracks but these two..whole lot of "ehhhh".

was expecting much more from this tbh

Edited December 4, 2020 by mause

[jules]

2 minutes ago, mause said:

cant say these new collab tracks are worth getting. ego/mirror are both fantastic tracks but these two..whole lot of "ehhhh".

was expecting much more from this tbh

same. they almost feel like demos or something. Thom's voice is incredibly high in the mix.