Burial - Rival Dealer

[kirm]

I love this EP so much, its seriously some of my favorite music ever.. Could do with some new Burial soon!

[danshoebridge]

 

In retrospect the 2nd track on this EP is fucking awful.

You don't have... To be alone.

I actually found the 2nd track grew on me a fair bit. 3rd track though...nope, it's a cheese too far. It reminds me of an 80s charity xmas single for some reason - it just needs bono and midge ure to redo the vocals.

[autopilot]

It did the opposite for me. At first I was just excited because it was new Burial, but after repeat listens I grew to dislike it. Maybe there's some fundamental darkness inside me that I can't get down with such saccharine melodics. I think it just reminds me too much of the vapid soullessness of 80's pop.

[usagi]

Hiders and Corn Deer To Us cause my trollmeter to go berserk. especially when the Hiders beat comes in and then vanishes just as quickly.

[endera3rd]

i miss burial pretty bad

[Captain James Mission]

Still waiting for a 4xLP Album with Truant kind of Tracks. Thanks!

[Npoess]

i miss burial pretty bad

[beerwolf]

God, I'd forgotten all about him tbh (which is pretty weird). After Kindred Spirit he went down hill for me and that ep was all killer and no filler. After that (imo) he lost his way.

 

Jesus I haven't thought about Burial for some time...

[Danny O Flannagin]

I hope Burials been working on a full length this whole time since Untrue was released, probably not tho

[beNito]

I remember that he posted something about trying to put his album together before the release of Dark Souls 2, because he knew that game would eat all of his time otherwise...

 

Looks like he didn't manage to do it... + Bloodborne came out since then, a DLC is coming and Dark Souls 3 has been announced !

[Guest Enter a new display name]

The least Hyperdub could do to make us wait a little longer for the next album would be a repress of Ghost Hardware EP.

[KovalainenFanBoy]

Temple Sleeper is better than this imo

[endera3rd]

HI William, could you put a few tunes up so we know you are well and alive? thanks, - me

[autopilot]

Temple Sleeper is better than this imo

 

I agree.

 

I like Rival Dealer far less now than I did when it originally came out. The only good track is the first one (other two are pure cheese) and even that tune doesn't come close to anything on Kindred or Truant/Rough Sleeper.

 

Kindred may have been his peak. Hoping that's not the case and he's got a few more years of solid jams in him.

[purlieu]

Still utterly love this. Come Down to Us is my favourite Burial track I think.

[beerwolf]

Need to relisten to this. So thats what I'm doing right now.

 

Was well spaced out when this came out, so my initial instincts on this could of been way out.

 

What's spooky is that it seems a hundred times faster than I remember!

 

And that can't be possible.

[beerwolf]

Fuuuck, Come Down To Us at 3.40min to 5.00mins. Is well fucking trippy . Jeez

 

I think I need to get back into this. I played it twice when it was released and just didn't get on with it. I actually broke down into tears (at work of all places which isn't really the best) on the second play 'cause it bought to me immense emotions of my best friend who commited suicide. Nowadays I feel I can play this and enjoy it from not such a difficult perspective, in fact it feels like the best elegiac music can, strangely uplifting.

 

Nice bump James

[Friendly Foil]

Still utterly love this. Come Down to Us is my favourite Burial track I think.

same

[jules]

I think I can only listen to that song drunk on Christmas day after everyone goes to bed.

 

and that's enough for the year.

[kirm]

Really hoping for new Burial this xmas!

[usagi]

unless he comes out with a new LP at some point with some fresh styles, I'm going to think he has dried up creatively. he was never very diverse to begin with, just a niche sort of sound that had big appeal. and I'm talking here as a big Burlel fan. but honestly, if he can't move past the whole 2step/breaks/bass/gloomy London vibe thing, then the strongest hint of a new direction I got was on Rough Sleeper, which is why I find that his best post-Untrue output.

[Candiru]

unless he comes out with a new LP at some point with some fresh styles, I'm going to think he has dried up creatively. he was never very diverse to begin with, just a niche sort of sound that had big appeal. and I'm talking here as a big Burlel fan. but honestly, if he can't move past the whole 2step/breaks/bass/gloomy London vibe thing, then the strongest hint of a new direction I got was on Rough Sleeper, which is why I find that his best post-Untrue output.

 

Agreed. This is my best guess as to why he hasn't had any new material. Just a one-off track in the past couple years which basically proves this point.

 

And I'm a fan too.

[Guest cult fiction]

Well Dark Souls 2 came out in 2014, and then there were 3 DLCs for it, and then Bloodborne this year, and there's a DLC for Bloodborne coming out this month, so he's been busy.

 

Oh shit and Dark Souls 3 early next year.

 

Don't expect new Burial for awhile...

[mcbpete]

Maybe he broke his wood blocks

[xox]

Maybe he broke his wood blocks

 

but i hope he still has his zippo lighter