Review Summary: Burial's aesthetics fall short and that aggressive percussion infects the rest of the soundscape to an environment Burial does
not thrive in.
Burial's been at an in-between, perhaps balancing detail and aggression, seems like that slight pause from production didn't necessary do much good for his sense of elegance, because 'Pre Dawn/Indoors' -EP has certainly much that I could say to be lacking from the standard Burial has set himself with beyond amazing sampling capabilities. Of course, there are signs of this to be highly false too. His remix of Deep Summer by Mønic proves that he has all the readiness to bring forth that same sublety and tranquility from 'Rival Dealer' -EP.
I am currently pondering to myself as to perhaps the artist is in a certain experimental stage, for sure it is understandable that wearing out your own craft quickly with repetitive schematics and defaulting ambience sure sets the rest of his work to a stale category aswell. Hopefully this is the thing I'm seeing here, because this EP is devoid of any progression and slight changes to repetitive percussion do not excuse the two tracks from being drearily dull. Reckon that was the goal though, to give an experience that drives the listener uneased with the EP.
But why? Burial's much above over bringing aggression to his production. Hopefully a disappearing trend is all I can say to this deal.
Considering the EP that we have here, it could be seen as an exception, a sudden flash of anger or dread washing over the future. It feels even more distant when it's not through Hyperdub but that doesn't justify any criticism. I enjoyed Burial in dark ambient on the EP 'Subtemple', moving far away from that is definitely not what I wish to see from an artist who appreciates depth and expression. This might perhaps be just me connecting much-repetitive percussion and agile tempo to bad experiences and poor production, two things which definitely do not belong on a Burial record and luckily this isn't the case here, but not much else seems connected to Burial either. We hear a lot of repetition, we hear really angry samples, we're not really getting to feel the record here, a thing Burial has going for his production is feeling that has completely disappeared for now.
If you want to see how Burial sounds in...rave I suppose, You could give this a spin. But Burial's aesthetics fall short and that aggressive percussion infects the rest of the soundscape to an environment Burial does
not thrive in.
