ha ha

"these notions that "nothing new lies under the sun" have been around for thousands of years"

I mean something wholly new. We're very good at appropriating archetypes based on what we know, on what's been around for years and years. We're capable of taking several different genres and ideas to yield a new aesthetic meaning, but it's very difficult to produce an original idea - something that isn't derived from or heavily influenced by something else in existence. That doesn't mean the art we consume isn't authentic though. I think it's interesting at the very least to consider this based on human nature and how we learn and mirror things.

hi deviant

Album Rating: 5.0

State Forest is one of the greatest things he's ever done, although I wonder whether that proclamation is made because I'm a S/T man over Untrue? But which does behoove the point: the whole ambient, impenetrably dark minimalism wasn't _new_ for Burial - actually it was his starting point - he just recalibrated it to capture a completely desolate torpor. outstanding work.

Album Rating: 4.5

Wines knows

“After reading all of your posts here (which have all been various shades of the same curmudgeonly nonsense) I'm wondering if you're just in desperate need of a personality”

Interesting conclusion, you might be right, but it’s a bit amusing as I’ve heard yourself be described by several regular users in that very same light

I know you are but what am I

State Forest is one of the greatest things he's ever done

Ah yeah I was confusing state forest with beachfires.
State forest good beachfires bad.

i don't know if its one of the greatest things he's ever done tho thats big talk

Album Rating: 5.0

small talk

Album Rating: 5.0

state forest is def one of the best burial songs

wouldn't even rank b.

state forests is a banger

yeah straight club banger....

fucking hell

@ephemeral I totally get what you mean but, moreso than most musicians, he is incredibly environment dependent. It should be no surprise Burial himself claimed he wanted to make music that people would listen to in the rain (paraphrasing). It helps tremendously to listen to him in such setting to "get" him, or at least it's easier. I had a similar issue with the surface elements that you speak of during my first exposure, that they were almost cheap (in my view) and wrote untrue off as extremely overrated. I started reading Mark Fisher a few years ago, an early fan of Burial, and he contextualized his music within his zeitgeist of hauntology (his capatalist realism variety of it). It's worth a look at

Album Rating: 4.5

burial's music always reminded me of being outside of a club in the smoking area after a long night; dazedly taking in the subdued, forlorn impressions of music from the dancefloor through hallways and echoic chatter as you get pummeled by clouds of cigarette smoke and spill whiskey on your shoes

And that specifity is so awesome about what Burial does. It's like a City Symphony film trancribed to music, one of a late capitalist London. The "sound" is what's important in music as Paul Simon said, it's emergent and trancedends all acoustic elements.

Also that was fantasically written

"recent reviews by this author" was a laugh

you're dead! indeed